"זה היה פיצוץ!"
Translation:It was a blast!
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It means an explosion, and can also mean fun or great in slang (but it sounds a bit old to me).
Is it true that they use pitsuts in slang for an attractive person? And if yes, both boy and girl or just one of them?
As Wiktionary says, there are two slang uses for פצצה, one is 'attractive' and the other 'great'.
So הוא נראה פצצה simply means he looks great; the same way you can say הבית נראה פצצה. On the other hand, פצצה בלונדינית for example could not refer to a handsome man, only to an attractive blond woman.
Explosion? Fun? The fun meaning is a bit old? To whom? I think we still say it here. But maybe we don't. I'm so old I don't even know.
Either היה פיצוץ or התרחש פיצוץ. The problem with היה פיצוץ is that it could mean "it was a blast" too.
I answered "There was an explosion." and it was marked as wrong. Is it really incorrect?
There was an explosion היה פיצוץ. The explosion is the subject.
In זה היה פיצוץ the "Ze" is the subject and פיצוץ is either predictive (if you mean explosion) or adveeb (if you mean very good).
As it was said above, you can also use the short way to describe a great thing that happened. היה פיצוץ. In this case the subject is implicit (נושא סתמי).
Somehow my long response disappeared. Anyway you can never translate זה היה פיצוץ as "therer was an explosion" though היה פיצוץ can be translated both: "There was an explosion" and "It was blast".
