English Dictionary

blockbuster

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈblɒkˌbʌs.tə(ɹ)/

名詞

くだけた表現 俗語 アメリカ英語

A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.

日本語の意味

大規模な区域（例えば、都市の一部）を破壊するために使用される高威力爆弾

The demolition team prepared a blockbuster to obliterate the enemy's fortified city block.

爆破チームは敵の要塞化された市街区を壊滅させるために大規模爆破弾を準備した。

意味（1）

A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.

意味（2）

(informal) Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.

意味（3）

(informal) Something, especially an event or a film, book or other creative work, that is intended to achieve high sales (perhaps indicated by large budgets or high advertising spending) or that is conceived on a large or epic scale

General William Booth Enters into Heaven is lusty, a blockbuster conception.

意味（4）

(slang) Anything very large or powerful; a whopper.

“How nice,she responded to his invitation, “but I've got a blockbuster of a headache. I'm paying for last night. Call me tomorrow, will you?

意味（5）

A large firework of the firecracker type; an M-80.

意味（6）

(US) One who engages in blockbusting (technique encouraging people to sell property).

Whereas White residents fell prey to blockbusters who stoked fears of invading Negroes and plummeting housing values during the 1950s, African Americans confronted more-than-imagined difficulties in neighborhoods after the 1968 riots.

blockbusters （ plural ）