bolide

Other forms: bolides

Definitions of bolide
  1. noun
    an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding)
    synonyms: fireball
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    type of:
    meteor, shooting star
    a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode
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