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  • adverb informal In a manner that would cause an explosion

Etymologies

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From exploding +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • So, the incredibly, massively, head-explodingly stupid idea to keep long-haul passengers in their seats for the last hour of a flight into the US has already been repealed.

    A taste test for Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth karenmiller 2009

  • Puzzled, and then suspicious, and then explodingly furious.

    The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

  • The two physicists describe a movie, The Chronicles of Riddick, about a prison breakout on a planet that's explodingly hot by day.

    Science goes to the movies 2007

  • A bizarre combination of live performance footage, video b-sides and a mind-explodingly insane short film in which Jackson battles Joe Pesci, who is an evil drug dealer with a strange interest in children, by turning himself into some kind of giant dancing robot who gets his power from shooting stars.

    The 10 Greatest Movies In Which Musicians Play An Exaggerated Version of Themselves | Best Week Ever 2007

  • The two physicists describe a movie, The Chronicles of Riddick, about a prison breakout on a planet that's explodingly hot by day.

    Science goes to the movies 2007

  • Meanwhile, more serious minds speculated on how it would affect the head-explodingly meta world of Snakes on a Plane parodies.

    Only four more muthaf--ing days... | EW.com 2006

  • Puzzled, and then suspicious, and then explodingly furious.

    Field Of Thirteen Francis, Dick 1998

  • Sadly, all the solutions that work without the specs are brain-explodingly bad

    Crave at CNET UK 2010

  • Perhaps you recall last week's more serious minds speculated on how it would affect the head-explodingly meta world of

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Perhaps you recall last week's more serious minds speculated on how it would affect the head-explodingly meta world of

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

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