meltdown
See also: melt down
English
Etymology
From the verb phrase melt down.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: melt‧down
Noun
meltdown (plural meltdowns)
- Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping.
- A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis.
- 2001, James Wickham, Perv Spoof Bosses Axe Wrestling (in The Daily Star)
- Channel 4 switchboards went into meltdown this week when viewers called to complain about a Brass Eye programme on child sex.
- 2001, James Wickham, Perv Spoof Bosses Axe Wrestling (in The Daily Star)
- (figuratively) A tantrum.
Synonyms
- (tantrum): see Thesaurus:tantrum
Derived terms
- gypsy meltdown
- market meltdown
- mutational meltdown
- nuclear meltdown
- techno-meltdown
Translations
severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor
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