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Definition: Blowing Up |
Blowing UpNoun1. A severe rebuke; "he deserved the berating that the coach gave him". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Slang | Verb. Source: Unknown. Definition: Getting overly tired at a fast rate. Context: Used during midgame when the players are starting to get very tired. Social Source: Football players. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Synonym: Blowing UpSynonym: berating (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: by-blow (general, sports & leisure). |
Crosswords: Blowing Up |
| English words defined with "blowing up": Mine ♦ Sufflation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "blowing up": Bladder ♦ fractal dimension ♦ Whirlwind. (references) |
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Screenplays | The only thing better than blowing up $100 billion worth of gold is making people think you did. (Die Hard: With a Vengeance; writing credit: Jonathan Hensleigh) Celebrate the independence of your nation by blowing up a small part of it (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Which had to be neutralized before blowing up the office (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook) Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky. (Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer; writing credit: Denis Leary) I once talked a guy out of blowing up the Sears Tower but I can't talk my wife out of the bedroom or my kid off the phone (The Negotiator; writing credit: James DeMonaco; Kevin Fox) | |
Lyrics | Half way home and my pager still blowing up (It Was a Good Day; performing artist: Ice Cube) Blowing Up Her Beeper Ringing Her Phone Off The Hook (Pu**y; performing artist: R. Kelly) | |
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 | Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting the ship blowing up off Fort St. Philip, Louisiana, on 18 April 1862, after the Confederates surrendered the lower Mississippi River fortifications. Credit: NAVY. |  | Anti-gambling sentiment blowing up a storm. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Balloon; party; birthday; blow up; inflate; inflating; inflated; blowing up; blew up . | | Dynamite; explosive; explosion; blast; pyrotechnic; destruction; demolition; demolishing; demolish; destroy; blow up; blowing up. |
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Senator Joseph Biden | Well, what we should do is we should prevent the time bomb from blowing up by making a further commitment of U.S. forces in the region, expand the international force beyond Kabul. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blowing up | 55 |
balloon blowing up | 47 |
skirt blowing up | 8 |
blowing up whale | 3 |
balloon blowing up woman | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "blowing up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | نسف (blast, blasting, blow up, blowup, sinking, torpedo, torpedoing). (various references) | |
Dutch | lift (elevator, lift). (various references) | |
French | remontée en ballon (blowup, blow-up), gonflage (blow-up), explosion (blast, blaze, blow up, puff and blow). (various references) | |
German | aufblasend (ballooning, bloating, inflating). (various references) | |
Greek | ανατίναξη (blasting). (various references) | |
Hebrew | נפוץ (circulated, common, detonation, disruption, exploding, prevalent, ripe, shattering, smash, widespread). (various references) | |
Hungarian | esőt hoz a szél (it is blowing up for rain), erős szél kerekedik (it is blowing up for a gale). (various references) | |
Italian | risalita a pallone (blow-up). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 爆沈 (blowing up and sinking). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ばくちん (blowing up and sinking). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owingblay upay.(various references) | |
Romanian | rãţoialã (airs). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вибух (bang, blast, blow up, burst, bursting, detonation, explosion, howl, hurricane, outbreak, outleap, storm, tornado). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-i-l-n-o-p-u-w" | |
-2 letters: blowgun, blowing, bowling, louping, plowing. | |
-3 letters: blowup, bluing, bowing, globin, goblin, loping, lowing, lubing, poling, puling, upboil. | |
-4 letters: bingo, blown, boing, gipon, gluon, lingo, lungi, lupin, oping, owing, pingo, poilu, upbow. | |
-5 letters: blin, blip, blow, boil, bong, bowl, bung, glib, glob, glop, glow, gown, gulp, iglu, ling, lino, lion, loin, long, loup, lown, lung. | |
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