Rapidly expanding or increasing into.

Device detonates, causing rapid expansion.

Plant ejects seeds with force.

A rare parasomnia in which the subject experiences the auditory hallucination of a loud bang or similar noise inside the head.

The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, sometimes simply called Plastic Inevitable or EPI, was a series of multimedia gesamtkunstwerk events organized by Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey in 1966 and 1967, featuring musical performances by The Velvet Underground and Nico, screenings of Warhol's films, such as Eat, and dancing and mime performance art by regulars of Warhol's Factory, especially Mary Woronov and Gerard Malanga.

There have been several cases of exploding whale carcasses due to a buildup of gas in the decomposition process.

a casual dedicated deck card game designed by Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal webcomic, Elan Lee and Shane Small, and first published by The Oatmeal in 2015.