kablooey
exclamation
USinformaluk/kəˈbluː.i/us/kəˈbluː.i/used forsuggestinganexplosion:
We got thetanks. We got agun. Kablooey!
used forsuggestingsomething will go or has gonebadlywrong:
If thestockmarketcontinuesto be unconvinced, thenconsumerconfidencewill beweakened, and thenconsumerspendingwilldropand then... kablooey.
go kablooey
toexplode,fail, or gobadlywrong:
There isimportantstuffthat I wouldn'twanttoloseif mycomputerwent kablooey.
In themovieaformeragentisdrawnout of hissecure,secludedlifefor one lastjob, but everything goes kablooey.
Linguistics: interjections
- aiyo
- alack
- alas and alackphrase
- attaboy
- attagirl
- auf Wiedersehen
- aw shucks
- figure
- goodo
- more
- more power toyourelbow!idiom
- need
- need I say more?idiom
- neener, neener
- no siridiom
- period
- small wonderidiom
- sweet
- the rest is historyidiom
- you seeidiom
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