flameout

noun

Etymology

Deverbal from flame out.

Definitions

  1. The act of flaming out or burning out

    The act of flaming out or burning out; extinguishing.

  2. 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.
  3. 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