blowout
Other forms: blowouts
When something stops working or breaks down, you can call it a blowout. The blowout of a city's electrical system can be a particularly big problem.
A blowout most often involves air or gas pressure — a blowout when you're driving on the highway is a popped tire. You can also use the word to mean a really easy victory in sports, like your favorite football team's blowout victory over its rival. Yet another meaning of blowout is a fabulous party: "Let's have a blowout to celebrate your twenty-first birthday!" The original, colloquial American meaning of blowout was "outburst," or what might today be called a "blow up."
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an easy victory
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a sudden malfunction of a part or apparatus
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a joyful festivitysynonyms: gala, gala affair, jamboree
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Vocabulary lists containing blowout
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