- The phrase “the (or da) bomb” became popular in the nineties. The addition of “dot com” refers to the ending of many websites’ URL “.com”. The phrase can also be continued by adding “slash awesome” or “slash (anything)”, continuing the usage of the URL reference.
The bomb dot com
adjective; other word formation type
A way to refer to any person, event, or thing which a person finds very cool or enjoyable.
Etymology : URL.">Bomb from the Latin ‘bombus’. Com is an abbreviation for ‘commercial’ used in some website’s URL.
Source : Advisor during O-week would say the honey butter chicken biscuits at Whataburger were the bomb-dot-com.
Last modified: 5 December 2011