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blow away: vt. To remove (files and directories) from permanent storage, generally by accident.
He reformatted the wrong partition and blew away last night's netnews....
Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act ii, Sc. 7...
Blow it out your comm port!
Blow me a little kiss, will ya, huh?
Blow - opposite of Buv.
blow out: [prob. from mining and tunneling jargon] vi.
Of software, to fail spectacularly; almost as serious as {crash and burn}....
Blowout!: Vlad Tire
blow past: vt. To {blow out} despite a safeguard. "The server blew past the 5K reserve buffer.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
blow up: vi. 1. [scientific computation] To become unstable.
Suggests that the computation is diverging so rapidly that it will soon overflow or at least go {nonlinear}....
Blow up your vehicle. It's really fun to watch.

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