blowing up
English
Verb
- present participle and gerund of blow up
Noun
blowing up (plural blowings up)
- (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!