BOMBING RUN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bombing run mean? 

• BOMBING RUN (noun)
  The noun BOMBING RUN has 1 sense:

1. that part of the flight that begins with the approach to the target; includes target acquisition and ends with the release of the bombs

  Familiarity information: BOMBING RUN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOMBING RUN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

That part of the flight that begins with the approach to the target; includes target acquisition and ends with the release of the bombs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("bombing run" is a kind of...):

bombardment; bombing (an attack by dropping bombs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bombing run"):

dive-bombing (a bombing run in which the bomber releases the bomb while flying straight toward the target)

loft bombing; toss bombing (a bombing run in which the bomber approaches the target at a low altitude and pulls up just before releasing the bomb)