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Blowing up

noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Explosion. colloquial

    "Blowings up —explodings— Such would be your fate; Streams of fire 'neath us! — Bless us, what a state!"

  2. 2
    a severe rebuke wordnet
Slang
  1. 1
    Gaining sudden massive attention. slang, social-media, 2010s-2020s

    "That creator is blowing up this month."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of blow up form-of, gerund, participle, present

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