KABLOOIE

Etymology

ka-, an intensifier used with onomatopoeia, plus (probably) an imaginative rendition of an explosion or splash.

Noun

kablooie (uncountable)

(colloquial) A failure, meltdown; or explosion; a splat or splash.

Usage notes

Most frequently used in the phrase to go kablooie or it went kablooie.

Source: Wiktionary



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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