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blow up
verb- to lose your temper UK, 1871
- “[W]ell, Gary, maybe that’s beyond your control.” At this point Gary blew up. “Those sons of bitches, those sons of bitches,” he kept saying. — Norman Mailer, The Executioner’s Song, p. 652, 1979
- in an endurance sport, especially cycling, to reach a point of utter exhaustion US, 2001
- The Ultimate Warrior is said to be one of the few wrestlers who blows up on the entry ramp. — rec.sports.pro-wrestling, 17 July 1990
- The athlete may “bonk,” “hit the wall” or “blow up,” as the terminology goes. — Washington Post, p. A1, 11 June 2001
- to quit a job without notice US
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 259, 1946
- to inform against someone UK
A variation of BLOW THE WHISTLE- DIXIE: Someone’s blown you up, Freda. FREDA: But who’d do a thing like that? — Alan Bleasdale, Boys From the Blackstuff, 1982
- (used of a telephone, especially a mobile phone) to ring US, 2002
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 2, Fall 2002
- to receive repeated electronic pages US
- — Rick Ayers (Editor), Slang Dictionary, p. 5, 2001
- (used of a racehorse) to breath hard after a race US, 1997
- to become muscular US
- So when I started buffin with Jimel, I blew up to some twenties [20-inch arms], then I got sick with cancer. — Yusuf Jah, Uprising, p. 27, 1995
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