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)