flameout
nounEtymology
Deverbal from flame out.
Definitions
The act of flaming out or burning out
The act of flaming out or burning out; extinguishing.
The act of quitting or failing, especially due to overwork or in a dramatic manner.
- The company was one of Silicon Valley's more famous dot-com flameouts.
- She was part of a weave of girls at Miss Rutgers's School, a mesh so fine and scarily intimate that even her mother's flameout and jail sentence […] couldn't dissolve it.
The sudden extinguishing of the flame of a burner (due to obstruction of fuel or airflow).
- The left engine suffered a flameout from ingesting heavy rain.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for flameout. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA