Usually means: Sudden, dramatic increase or expansion.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. blowup: Merriam-Webster
  2. blowup: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blowup: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blowup: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blowup: Vocabulary.com
  6. Blowup, blowup: Wordnik
  7. blowup: Wiktionary
  8. blowup: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. blowup: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. blowup: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. blowup: Dictionary.com
  12. blowup: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Blowup: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. blowup: Rhymezone
  15. blowup: FreeDictionary.org
  16. blowup: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. blowup: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blowup: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. blowup: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blowup: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Film/Video Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (blowup)

noun:  An explosion, or violent outburst.
noun:  (photography) An enlargement.

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