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Blow-out   Listen
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Blow-out  n.  The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Blow-out" Quotes from Famous Books



... million dollars," stated Johnny. "No, I mean five hundred and ten thousand," he hastily corrected, remembering his five-thousand-dollar debt to Polly, and planning a five-thousand-dollar betrothal blow-out that should be a ...
— Five Thousand an Hour - How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress • George Randolph Chester

... blow-out, or an explosion, in the locomotive," answered Mr. Bobbsey. "The fire got too hot after the wreck, and the steam burst out at one side of the boiler. But no one seems to be hurt, and I'm glad of that. ...
— The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West • Laura Lee Hope

... trouble and expense. A coroner's verdict of 'suicide by request,' is much more simple, and just as good as a lengthy criminal prosecution, besides affording the transgressor a choice of weapons. He may prefer a strychnine sandwich to the rope, or an unobtrusive blow-out-the-gas transition to the electric chair; he may choose to loiter carelessly in the path of a metropolitan trolley car; to caress the rear elevation of an army mule, or insist upon reading a spring poem to an athletic and busy editor. Many persons are particular upon these subjects and, ...
— Said the Observer • Louis J. Stellman

... shouldn't nice-lookin' people have a good blow-out, same as you?" inquired the girl, with a flash of indignation. "They deserves it more, ...
— Essays in Rebellion • Henry W. Nevinson

... kind of a blow-out it is, do you?" grinned the operator, glancing out of the window at the spic ...
— The Perils of Pauline • Charles Goddard

... how many of them ever knew what it was to get their fill of crackers? They were starving amidst an abundance of squibs! Society was responsible, and must be forced to do its duty. He had had enough of it, he meant to get a good blow-out before he was much older, he could tell them, and if the Government refused to provide it free, he must loot a firework factory, that was all—he was ready to lead the way—if they ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, November 5, 1892 • Various

... in danger. However, by a little judicious manoeuvring he got safe into his study, and, after a hasty consultation with Pil, decided to ask Curtis, Philpot, Morrison, and Morgan, their four most intimate friends, to do them the pleasure of joining in a small "blow-out" after third school. These four worthies, who, by a most curious coincidence, happened to be loafing outside Cusack's study-door at the very moment when Pilbury started off to find them, had much pleasure in accepting their friend's kind invitation; ...
— The Willoughby Captains • Talbot Baines Reed

... great blow-out,' observed Mr. Spraggon to Mr. Sponge, as, crossing his hands and resting them on the crown of his head, he threw himself back in his easy-chair, to recruit after the exertion of concocting the ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees

... sounds alluring," I admitted. "The trouble is that you are looking for something that can't always be found. You don't find adventure the way you find four-leaf clovers; it just happens to you, like the measles or a blow-out. Still, if one has the time and money to go after them, there are a lot of curious things that might pass for adventure when they ...
— Where the Strange Trails Go Down • E. Alexander Powell

... a blow-out," the lady briefly announced. "Will you put on a 'spare,' please, and take a look ...
— The Girl in the Mirror • Elizabeth Garver Jordan

... Ben and Taller—hump yourselves to the wildwood and rustle flowers for the blow-out—mesquite'll do—and get that Spanish dagger blossom at the corner of the horse corral for the bride to pack. You, Limpy, get out that red and yaller blanket of your'n for Miss Sally's skyirt. Marquis, you'll do 'thout fixin'; nobody don't ever ...
— Rolling Stones • O. Henry

... said, "that was nothin' to the blow-out on Amy's sixteenth birthday. The Colonel had kep' her pretty close after he took her from school. She had a governess and she had a maid, but I must say she didn't seem an atom set up, and was just as nice when she met us girls. 'Hello, Betsey,' she'd ...
— The Cromptons • Mary J. Holmes



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