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blow out (n.)
also
blowout
, 1825, American English colloquial, "outburst, brouhaha" (what, in modern use, would be called a
blow up
), from
blow
(v.1) +
out
. Meaning "abundant feast" is recorded from 1824; that of "flat tire" is from 1908.
