love bomb

plural love bombs · alternative lovebomb · alternative love-bomb

1. An attempt to influence a person by lavish demonstrations of attention and affection.

   Be careful not to drop love bombs, and try not to get wrapped up in someone else's bombing.

   2023, Dawn Dais, The Sh!t No One Tells You About Divorce: A Guide to Breaking Up, Falling Apart, and Putting Yourself Back Together, Hachette, →ISBN

present singular third person love bombs · participle present love bombing · participle past love bombed · past love bombed · alternative lovebomb · alternative love-bomb

1. alternativeAlternative form of love-bomb.

   My hypothesis is that a great many of the troubled children who have been love bombed would have had elevated or blunted cortisol prior to the intervention and that measured afterwards, the experience would have “reset” them to more benign ones.

   2018 [2014], Andrew Odgers, editor, From Broken Attachments to Earned Security, Routledge, →ISBN