blowing up

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English

Verb

blowing up

  1. present participle and gerund of blow up

Noun

blowing up (plural blowings up)

  1. (colloquial) Explosion.
    • 1876, William Cox Bennett, Songs of a Song Writer, page 60:
      Blowings up —explodings— Such would be your fate; Streams of fire 'neath us! — Bless us, what a state!

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