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Rib On This Bomb Is Going To Be Expensive

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noun

• a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)

• any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)

32%9Bomb that can reach targets beyond the range of a free-falling bomb
verb

• bomb by gliding

29%3Bomb of a bomb
noun

• someone who is unsuccessful

• an explosion that fails to occur

• an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual

adjective satellite

• failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive

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