1. General synonym for crash except that it is not used as a noun.Especially used of software or OS failures."Don' t run Empire with less than 32K stack, it' ll bomb".2. Atari ST and Macintosh equivalents of a Unix "panic" or Amigaguru, in which icons of little black-powder bombs or mushroom clouds are displayed, indicating that the system has died.On the Macintosh, this may be accompanied by a decimal (or occasionally hexadecimal) number indicating what went wrong, similar to the Amigaguru meditation number.MS-DOS computers tend to lock up in this situation.3. A piece of code embedded in a program that remains dormant until it is triggered.Logic bombs are triggered by an event whereas time bombs are triggered either after a set amount of time has elapsed, or when a specific date is reached.[Jargon File](1996-12-08)