Blow up

fill with air (e.g. a ballon); enlarge; exaggerate; lose one's temper; cause something to explode; explode

Blow Up is a club night that was founded in the early 1990s by promoter and DJ Paul Tunkin at a North London pub called 'The Laurel Tree'. The night quickly became the epicentre of the emerging Britpop scene in Camden attracting long queues of people eager to gain entry to the tiny venue. Early regulars included members of Blur, Pulp, Elastica, Suede, The Buzzcocks, Huggy Bear and The Jesus & Mary Chain, leading to the club being referred to by some as the place where "Britpop was born". The style of Blow Up and its audience has been noted as an early influence on, and instrumental in the later mid-Nineties explosion of the Britpop scene in the UK and abroad: History Often mistakenly labelled as purely a 'mod club' by the press, Blow Up's musical scope was much wider than this, although the club was initially started by Tunkin as a reaction to the prevalent grunge/slacker scene which he said "was so anti-style". The music played included British Pop and R'n'B from the 1960s (Small Faces, Kinks, Rolling Stones etc) and Soul, late 1970s New Wave (The Buzzcocks, Wire etc) together with emerging new bands mixed in with film soundtracks, 'music library' tracks, Easy Listening and 1960s electronic music (Jean Jacques Perry et al); anything that fell under Tunkin's term of 'Orgasmic Pop'.
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Blow up can refer to:Blow Up, a club night in London, established in 1993Blowup, a film by Michelangelo AntonioniBlowing up, a mathematical operationBlow Up, A 1991 album by The Smithereens
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For blowups in algebraic geometry, see blowing up. For the club night, see Blow Up. Blowup (also rendered as Blow-Up) is an award-winning 1966 British-Italian art film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and was that director's first English language film. It tells the story of a photographer's involvement with a murder case. The film was inspired by the short story "Las Babas del Diablo" by Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar, and by the work, habits, and mannerisms of Swinging London photographer David Bailey.
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Verb
1. cause to explode; "We exploded the nuclear bomb"
(synonym) explode, detonate, set off
(hypernym) change integrity
(hyponym) fulminate
(cause) explode, burst
(derivation) explosion, detonation, blowup
2. make large; "blow up an image"
(synonym) enlarge, magnify
(antonym) reduce, scale down
(hypernym) increase
(derivation) enlargement, blowup, magnification
(classification) photography, picture taking
3. get very angry and fly into a rage; "The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic"
(synonym) flip one's lid, throw a fit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, have kittens, have a fit, combust, blow one's stack, fly off the handle, flip one's wig, lose one's temper, blow a fuse, go ballistic
(hypernym) rage
(derivation) effusion, gush, outburst, blowup, ebullition
4. add details to
(synonym) embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, dramatize, dramatise
(hypernym) overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify
(hyponym) glorify
5. exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"
(synonym) inflate, expand, amplify
(hypernym) increase
(hyponym) puff up
6. fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons"
(synonym) inflate
(hypernym) expand
(hyponym) reflate
7. to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
(synonym) puff, puff up, puff out
(hypernym) swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce

1. Of a scientific computation: to become unstable. It suggests that the computation is diverging so rapidly that it will soon overflow or at least go nonlinear.
2. blow out.
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become angry, lose your temper If you criticize Al, he'll blow up. He's very sensitive.