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bombproof
[ bom-proof ]
adjective
- strong enough to resist the impact and explosive force of bombs or shells:
a bombproof shelter.
verb (used with object)
- to make bombproof.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bombproof1
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Example Sentences
Cooper, who worked closely with Ailes at the time, was with him at the News Corp. building when he requested the bombproof glass.
You'd turn up your pretty little nose, and accept the arm of some damned bombproof—Look out!
As I waded through the mud to go down into the bombproof, it struck me uneasily that our officers glanced at each other.
We lie down on the benches in the bombproof, with our clothes on, with the dirty blankets over us.
Vergor, with other officers and Le Loutre, was in the second bombproof.
I sat one night in the bombproof of an advanced position on the Sveta Maria, near Tolmein.
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