Definition of "kablooey" []

• Alternative spelling of kablooie. (noun)

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• "Obviously many people will say (not knowing a thing about this guy) that he got what was coming to him because he oversaw the exploratory drilling operation, and it went catastrophically kablooey, and then BP didn't have a ready fix, and the gulf got polluted, and the birds and turtles died, and so on."
• "We start each day with a color-coded terror alert to let us know how likely we are to go kablooey and drive past highway signs urging us to report suspicious activity."
• "If contractors really want to do the most professional job they can -- a goal that may be problematic for some of them -- they could and should receive the various lessons learned reports government personnel have been compiling for years as they reflect on why so many reconstruction projects went kablooey."