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  • verb Present participle of divebomb.

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Examples

  • Palin did her part by playing the tired old Alaskan pioneer card, saying that lower-48 naysayers who dared to object to the idea of divebombing wildlife didn't "understand rural Alaska."

    Fabius Maximus 2008

  • The opposite would be a kingfisher -- a small guy divebombing to pull a fish out of deep water.

    Maureen Dowd Devotes Whole Column To Edwards' Hair 2009

  • Mona Charen, Ann Coulter, and Michelle Malkin would sprout bat wings and fangs and start divebombing, Peggy Noonan would issue a pained sigh that would ruffle nun's robes from here to Hoboken, Laura Ingraham and Bill Bennett would engage in a finger-wagging contest to condemn our loose licentious liberal culture, and Jennifer Rubin at Commentary's Contentions would crash into the wall doing cartwheels.

    The Bristol Stomp: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • Mona Charen, Ann Coulter, and Michelle Malkin would sprout bat wings and fangs and start divebombing, Peggy Noonan would issue a pained sigh that would ruffle nun's robes from here to Hoboken, Laura Ingraham and Bill Bennett would engage in a finger-wagging contest to condemn our loose licentious liberal culture, and Jennifer Rubin at Commentary's Contentions would crash into the wall doing cartwheels.

    Palinsanity. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Mona Charen, Ann Coulter, and Michelle Malkin would sprout bat wings and fangs and start divebombing, Peggy Noonan would issue a pained sigh that would ruffle nun's robes from here to Hoboken, Laura Ingraham and Bill Bennett would engage in a finger-wagging contest to condemn our loose licentious liberal culture, and Jennifer Rubin at Commentary's Contentions would crash into the wall doing cartwheels.

    Palinsanity. Ann Althouse 2008

  • No one knows where they come from but they're divebombing Annie's sugar bin and everything's in a right kerfuffle.

    The first paragraph contest thread 2008

  • The only strange thing that ever happened during rehearsal was a divebombing bat, who was dispatched by an actor with a broom (over my objections, since I'm a fan of bats).

    Archive 2006-01-15 Edward Willett 2006

  • They HATE Dimbaugh, and they are perfectly content to demonstrate how illiterate they are by not reading his actual comments, but divebombing pieces of what he said ...

    Take Limbaugh Off the Air in Iraq 2007

  • They HATE Dimbaugh, and they are perfectly content to demonstrate how illiterate they are by not reading his actual comments, but divebombing pieces of what he said ...

    Take Limbaugh Off the Air in Iraq 2007

  • This includes mock divebombing runs, and sometimes even firing live ammo.

    - Boing Boing 2005

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