bomb

/bɒm/ verb [I] US informal

Definition

› to fail very badly: The movie bombed at the box office.

(Definition of bomb verb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

to not be trusted or popular because people think you have done something bad

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