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Meaning of BLOW OUT

Pronunciation:  blowawt

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [v]  melt, break, or become otherwise unusable; "The lightbulbs blew out"; "The fuse blew"
 
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 Synonyms: blow, burn out
 
 See Also: break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad

 

 

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 Definition: 

Blowout
Brutal murders shake up Washington`s judicial elite in Catherine Coulter`s ninth FBI thriller. The quiet weekend in a forest cabin that married FBI agents Savich and Sherlock have planned for themselves and their young son is interrupted when a frantic, nearly incoherent woman fleeing an unseen killer approaches Savich`s stopped car. Then the couple is called back to Washington to solve the killing of a Supreme Court Justice, strangled the night before the opening of a high-profile death-penalty case, as well as the subsequent deaths of two of the Justice`s clerks.

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Blow"-out`\, n.
The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a
blast of steam.
 
Computing Dictionary
 
 Definition: 

(Probably from mining and tunnelling jargon) Of software, to fail spectacularly; almost as serious as crash and burn.

See blow past, blow up, die horribly.

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