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Definition of blow up

blow up

verb

  • a feeling of ecstasy brought about by the consumption of the drug MDMA (also known as "ecstasy", "X", "E", etc.)
    This is great X - I've been blowing up all night.

    Last edited on Apr 19 2013. Submitted by Anonymous on Jan 19 2000.

  • to significantly increase in one's socio-economic status.
    I'm go blow up when my album is released.

    Last edited on Oct 05 2001. Submitted by Ugunda G. from Akron, OH, USA on Oct 05 2001.

  • to become extremely angry.
    He totally blew up at me after I wrecked his car.

    Last edited on Jan 04 2003. Submitted by Anonymous on Jan 04 2003.

verb - transitive

  • to phone or page excessively; to fill up the capacity of some electronic answering service (voice mail, answering machine, one's pager, etc.)
    My crazy ex keeps blowing up my cellphone.
    Appreciate it if you wouldn't blow up my email.

    Last edited on Apr 19 2013. Submitted by Greg K. from Tucson, AZ, USA on Jun 10 1999.

  • to destroy.
                                                                                                                            

    Citation from "Dave of the Dead", Happy Endings (TV), Season 1 Episode 7 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

    Last edited on May 06 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on May 06 2011.

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Other terms relating to 'telephone, phone':

Definitions include: cell phone.
Definitions include: a friend.
Definitions include: phone number or digits.
Definitions include: a request for a phone call.
Definitions include: to urinate.
Definitions include: a five pound note.
Definitions include: phone number.
Definitions include: very cold.
Definitions include: to call on a telephone.
Definitions include: a person or object that erred.
Definitions include: phone.
Definitions include: a last-minute or previously unplanned request to meet up with someone with the intention of having sex (i.e. getting booty.)
Definitions include: a handgun.
Definitions include: abbreviated form of "conference call".
Definitions include: cell phone.

Other terms relating to 'to become angry, go crazy, freak out':

Definitions include: a tantrum.
Definitions include: to go crazy; "go postal".
Definitions include: to go crazy.
Definitions include: to go crazy.
Definitions include: to go insane.
Definitions include: a very bad mood because a person can't get a cigarette to fulfill their need for nicotine.
Definitions include: to freak out about something and go crazy.
Definitions include: to go crazy.
Definitions include: freak out or go crazy.
Definitions include: to go crazy
Definitions include: to go insane.
Definitions include: "boyfriend."
Definitions include: to go crazy.
Definitions include: to become angry.
Definitions include: to really annoy or upset.

Other terms relating to 'to break, ruin, destroy':

Definitions include: to mess up.
Definitions include: ruined.
Definitions include: to destroy.
Definitions include: to destroy.
Definitions include: to cause a mechanism to stop functioning, or function more slowly.
Definitions include: great.
Definitions include: in an update or sequel to a video game, to make a weapon weak or weaker, such that it's like a Nerf gun.
Definitions include: to overwhelm a web site with massive amounts of traffic due to Slashdot linking to it.
Definitions include: to be under the influence of drugs.
Definitions include: to severely injure (a person) or damage or ruin (a thing.)
Definitions include: to break, to fail.
Definitions include: very cold.
Definitions include: high-grade marijuana.
Definitions include: to wreck a vehicle such that repairs would cost more than the value of the (unwrecked) vehicle.
Definitions include: to injure or destroy.

Other terms relating to 'to make money':

Definitions include: to earn, usually money.
Definitions include: to increase one's stature in life.
Definitions include: to work hard and get some money.
Definitions include: to earn money.
Definitions include: to seek "paper" (i.e. money.)
Definitions include: to earn an income.
Definitions include: the pursuit of money.
Definitions include: to bring a person to law enforcement.
Definitions include: of money, to gather.
Definitions include: to save money or increase personal wealth.
Definitions include: displeasing.

Other terms relating to 'under the influence of MDMA (ecstasy)':

Definitions include: Used to describe the way someone looks when high on Ecstasy (MDMA).
Definitions include: Off your head on drugs, particularly used in relation to Ecstasy (MDMA).
Definitions include: a person strongly under the influence of Ecstasy (MDMA).
Definitions include: the face of a person high on Ecstasy (MDMA).
Definitions include: Ecstasy (MDMA).
Definitions include: to call on a telephone.
Definitions include: to have taken Ecstasy (MDMA) and be physically at the peak of the drug's effect.
Definitions include: flipped out, overreacted, became upset.
Definitions include: under the influence of Ecstasy (MDMA).
Definitions include: to use Ecstasy (MDMA).
Definitions include: When someone is high on Ecstasy (MDMA) and wants to just sit in a corner somewhere with their eyes shut.
Definitions include: to ingest LSD and Ecstasy (MDMA) at the same time.
Definitions include: under the influence of Ecstasy (MDMA).

Slang terms with the same root words

Other terms relating to 'blow':

Definitions include: the feeling when you defecate huge and your anus is stretched.
Definitions include: to be of poor quality, displeasing.
Definitions include: to lose one's temper.
Definitions include: to be extremely angry.
Definitions include: to flatulate; "fart.
Definitions include: to kill, usually with a firearm.
Definitions include: to vomit.
Definitions include: to be at the peak (blowing up) of one's "roll" on ecstasy (MDMA).
Definitions include: a person or object that erred.
Definitions include: to vomit.
Definitions include: to vacillate in opinion
Definitions include: to completely fail a task.
Definitions include: Alternate spelling of blowjob.
Definitions include: an angry retort; "bite me".
Definitions include: to defecate, usually diarrhea.

Other terms relating to 'up':

Definitions include: a warning that one or more law enforcement officers are near.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: to misbehave.
Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up."
Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc.
Definitions include: doing something emphatically.
Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant.
Definitions include: to increase.
Definitions include: to contribute one's share.
Definitions include: to mess up.
Definitions include: 1. To be highly intoxicated on drugs and/or alcohol
Definitions include: to make something like ass.
Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird".
Definitions include: stupid.
Definitions include: strange / stupid.

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