Usually means: Rapidly increase in size, popularity.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. blow-up, blow up: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. blow up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blow-up, blow up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. blow up: Vocabulary.com
  5. Blow-Up, Blow-up, blow-up: Wordnik
  6. blow (sb/sth) up, blow up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. blow-up, blow up: Wiktionary
  8. blow-up, blow up: Dictionary.com
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  10. blow up: Rhymezone
  11. blow up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. BLOW-UP: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  13. blow up: Phrasal Verb Page
  14. blow up: Free Dictionary
  15. blow up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. blow-up, blow up: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. blow-up: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Blow Up (film), Blow-up, blow up: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. blow up: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Blow Up (film), Blow-up, blow up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. blow up: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Blow-Up: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. blow up, blow up, blow up, blow up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Blow up: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Blow-up, Blow up: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (blow up)

verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.
verb:  (intransitive, also figuratively) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
verb:  (transitive, also figuratively) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
verb:  (transitive) To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.
verb:  (transitive) To enlarge or zoom in on.
verb:  (intransitive) To fail disastrously.
verb:  (intransitive, mathematics, said of a function) To increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit.
verb:  (slang, intransitive) To become popular very quickly.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To excite.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To scold violently, blow up at.
verb:  (sports) To blow the whistle.
verb:  (intransitive, cycling) To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
verb:  (transitive, slang, said of a device or machine) To overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.
verb:  (especially) (said of a cell phone, pager, or other personal communication device) To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of rendering temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, said of a device or machine) To be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.
verb:  (especially) (said of a cell phone, pager, or other personal communication device) To receive a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of being rendered temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
verb:  (slang, colloquial) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation, defecation, etc.
verb:  (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to gather; to form.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, dated) To use an intoxicating drug; to get high.

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