dive-bomb
dive-bomb • v. [tr.] bomb (a target) while diving steeply downward in an aircraft: news that kamikazes had dive-bombed a U.S. destroyer. ∎ (of a bird or flying insect) attack (something) by swooping down on it: the crow folded its wings and dive-bombed the vulture.DERIVATIVES: dive-bomb·er n.
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