eruption
noun/ɪˈɹʌpʃən/
Etymology From Middle French éruption, from Latin eruptio.
1
A violent ejection, such as the spurting out of lava from a volcano.
- a volcanic eruption
2
A sudden release of pressure or tension.
- There was an eruption of joy at the final whistle.
3
An utterance, especially a sudden one; an ejaculation.
- Ultimately, Greenfield may remind us of no one so much as Boston's own, Sylvia Sidney — "herself" in the amusement business! From whom else does one expect so leveling a sequence of eruptions: "i mean yah gotta win a little money/ i mean we're all whores turning a trick"?1976 December 18, Rudy Kikel, “The Doomsday Book by the Jewish Comedian”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 15:
4
An infection of the skin resulting in a rash or blemishing.
- Derived terms
- bimbo eruption, eruptional, eruption column, maleruption, noneruption, overeruption, posteruption
- Hyponyms
- bozo eruption, creeping eruption, effusive eruption, explosive eruption, fissure eruption, flank eruption, Hawaiian eruption, lateral eruption, limnic eruption, Peléan eruption, phreatic eruption, Plinian eruption, steam-blast eruption, Strombolian eruption, subaerial eruption, subglacial eruption, submarine eruption, subplinian eruption, supereruption, Surtseyan eruption, ultraplinian eruption, ultravulcanian eruption, Vesuvian eruption, Vulcanian eruption