Bomb

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Shortcode: :bomb:
Unicode: U+1F4A3
HTML: 💣
CSS: \1F4A3
JavaScript: "\u{1F4A3}"
URL: %F0%9F%92%A3

What 💣 means

A round cartoon bomb with a lit fuse. It can mean something explosive, shocking news, or, in older slang, something that is "the bomb" and great.

"Dropped a 💣" means someone revealed big news. It also marks a show or exam that bombed, a very good meal, or an F-bomb. With 💥 it is a loud reaction to a surprise.

Most people read it as a cartoon, but it can look threatening out of context, so avoid it in tense or formal messages.

Facts

Bomb 💣 is an emoji in the objects category, under tool. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :bomb:. People also look for it with words like “boom”, “comic”, “dangerous”, or “explosion”.