Usually means: Fail spectacularly after initial success.
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  1. flame out: Merriam-Webster
  2. flame out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flame-out: Vocabulary.com
  4. flame-out: Wordnik
  5. flame-out, flame out: Wiktionary
  6. flame-out: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. flame-out: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. flame-out, flame out: Dictionary.com
  9. flame-out: Rhymezone
  10. flame-out: FreeDictionary.org
  11. flame-out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. flame-out, flame out: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. flame out: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (flame out)

verb:  (now rare) To become suddenly angry; to break out into indignation or similar emotion; to flare up.
verb:  (of processes and equipment involving combustion) To fail due to extinction of flame.
verb:  (figuratively) To fail, usually spectacularly.
verb:  (intransitive) To stop due to exhaustion.

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