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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Something, such as a film or book, that sustains widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales.
  2. n. A high-explosive bomb used for demolition purposes.
  3. n. One that engages in the practice of blockbusting.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.
  2. n. Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.
  3. n. A large firecracker type of fireworks; an M-80.
  4. adj. An exceptional event.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a large bomb used to demolish extensive areas (as a city block)
  2. n. an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel)

Etymologies

  1. Sense 3, from blockbusting. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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