kerplode

present singular third person kerplodes · participle present kerploding · participle past kerploded · past kerploded

1. informalrareSynonym of explode.

   I sleep like a rock. But this morning, I heard a noise so loud and so strange that I thought my house kerploded. My eyes popped open.

   2009, Laura Dower, “Prologue”, in Return of Mega Mantis #2, Penguin, →ISBN

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   Admirers of Vice's journalism—Vice News and Motherboard, both of which were largely kerploded during Vice's bankruptcy, had made themselves essential with years of excellent reporting—have long daydreamed about a future where its owners and executives stopped trying to turn it into a leprechaun's pot of gold and just allowed it to be a good website.

   2024 February 23, Chris Thompson, “Vice’s Avaricious Stewards Finally Succeeded At Bleeding It Dry”, in Defector, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2024

   Synonyms: explode