Comments on: Blow Out http://www.word-detective.com/2011/05/blow-out/ Semper Ubi Sub Ubi Wed, 28 Apr 2021 23:37:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.1 By: Blowout, sleaze | Arnold Zwicky's Blog http://www.word-detective.com/2011/05/blow-out/comment-page-1/#comment-71702 Mon, 01 Sep 2014 19:33:30 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=5006#comment-71702 […] this most recent sense development, see Evan Morris on his Word Detective site: The logic behind this use [‘large or lavish meal’] of “blow-out” is that of excess without […]

]]> By: Susan Strobel http://www.word-detective.com/2011/05/blow-out/comment-page-1/#comment-19983 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:03:35 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=5006#comment-19983 And don’t forget “blowout” in the oil drilling sense:

A blowout is the uncontrolled release of crude oil and/or natural gas from an oil well or gas well after pressure control systems have failed.[1]

Prior to the advent of pressure control equipment in the 1920s, the uncontrolled release of oil and gas from a well while drilling was common and was known as an oil gusher, gusher or wild well.

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