blowoutn.

Etymology: blow- comb. form 1.

1. An outbreak of anger; a quarrel, disturbance, row. dialect and U.S.

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the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > [noun] > fit(s) or outburst(s) of anger

wratha1200

wrethea1400

hatelc1400

angerc1425

braida1450

fumea1529

passion1530

fustian fume1553

ruff1567

pelt1573

spleen1590

blaze1597

huff1599

blustera1616

dog-flawa1625

overboiling1767

explosion1769

squall1807

blowout1825

flare-up1837

fit1841

bust-up1842

wax1854

Scot1859

pelter1861

ructions1862

performance1864

outfling1865

rise1877

detonation1878

flare-out1879

bait1882

paddy1894

paddywhack1899

wingding1927

wing-dinger1933

eppie1987

society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel > instance of

ganglinga1387

altercation1410

brawla1500

heat1549

wranglea1555

brabble1566

paroxysm1578

wrangling1580

brangle1600

branglement1617

rixation1623

row1746

skimmington1753

mêlée1765

breeze1785

squeal1788

hash1789

rook1808

blow-up1809

blowout1825

scena1826

reerie1832

catfight1854

barney1855

wigs on the green1856

bull and cow1859

scrap1890

slanging match1896

snap1897

up-and-downer1927

brannigan1941

rhubarb1941

bitch fight1949

punch-up1958

shout-up1965

shouting match1970

1825 J. K. Paulding John Bull in Amer. 137 We had a blow out here last Sunday, and half a dozen troublesome fellows..were done for by the brave rowdies.

1826 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1839) IX. 44 At dinner we had a little blow-out on Sophia's part.

1842 Spirit of Times (Philadelphia) 15 Feb. I've had five breezes, seven blow-outs, nine shindies, and a dozen ructions on this $1 Relief note.

2. A dinner, supper, or other entertainment for which an abundant supply of food and drink is provided or at which it is consumed; a ‘feast’ or ‘feed’. colloquial.

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the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun]

farmeOE

feasta1200

gesteningc1200

mangerc1390

mangerya1400

junkerya1425

banquet1483

convive1483

gestonyea1500

junketa1500

festine1520

Maundy1533

junketing1577

entertainmenta1616

entertain1620

regalo1622

treatmenta1656

treat1659

regale1670

regality1672

festino1741

spreadation1780

spread1822

blowout1823

tuck-out1823

burst1849

1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. vii. 193 ‘She sent me a card for her blow-out,’ said Mowbray; ‘and so I am resolved to go.’

1837 W. Irving Capt. Bonneville (1895) I. 191 Captain Bonneville now gave the men what, in frontier phrase is termed ‘a regular blow-out!’

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxvi. 87 They had a grand blow-out, and..drank in the forecastle, a barrel of gin.

1856 F. E. Paget Owlet of Owlstone Edge 174 Such a jolly blow-out as there was when the Bishop was here.

1913 C. E. Mulford Coming of Cassidy vii. 112 I'll clean you out an' have a real, genuine blow-out on your money.

1930 R. Lehmann Note in Music vii. 264 Have a nice blowout and a good sleep afterwards.

1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 172 Saint's menu in between such blood-building blowouts was rabbit, with pollard as a savoury.

a. Mining. A portion of a lode where the mineral appears to have been dislodged by some eruptive force. Also figurative. U.S.

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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > vein > vein of ore > portion showing evidence of eruption

blowout1873

1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xviii. 333 All the strange terms in mining parlance: ‘true lodes,..blow-outs’.

1901 S. E. White Westerners xxiii. 214 He saw that..a third [claim]..gave indications of being nothing but a blow-out.

b. A butte, the top of which has been blown out by the wind until it resembles the crater of a volcano; a hollow in an area of shifting sand, or light soil, caused by the action of the wind. Originally U.S. Also spec. a water-hole (see quot. 1935).

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > made by wind

blowout1893

the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > dried-up water hole

blowout1935

1893 Smith & Pound in Bot. Surv. Nebraska II. 8 If a spot on a dry hill becomes bare, the loose sand is blown away, a small hollow is made... Such blow outs were seen 100 surrounding meters in diameter and 15..meters deep.

1895 P. A. Rydberg in Contrib. U.S. National Herbarium III. No. 3. 135 It sometimes happens that settlers [in the sand-hill region] a few years after breaking their land find a field transformed into a big blowout.

1897 R. Pound & F. E. Clements Phytogeogr. Nebraska (1898) 248 A small number of these grasses are especially adapted to these localities and are uniformly to be found in such blow outs... These grasses mark a second formation, which may be called the blow out formation.

1897 R. Pound & F. E. Clements Phytogeogr. Nebraska (1898) 248 The blow out grasses..bind the sand together with their roots.

1911 F. O. Bower Plant-life on Land ix. 151 Close by an effete Dune with its grasses weakened in growth is being attacked by the wind, and eroded into hollows or ‘Blow-outs’.

1935 Discovery Dec. 359/2 ‘Blow outs’, i.e. dried up water holes, from which the wind has eroded the sands.

4. A burst in a pneumatic rubber tyre caused by air-pressure from the inside. Also figurative.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > explosive sound > [noun] > explosive emission of air > from type

blowout1908

1908 Westm. Gaz. 7 Jan. 4/1 Miraculum will not seal a blow-out.

1911 R. W. Chambers Common Law iv. 117 Your young man has me in the ditch with two blow-outs and the gas afire!

1915 Literary Digest 21 Aug. 387/1 The Goodyear Cord Tires, without a blow-out, took the car back to Detroit.

1915 Literary Digest 4 Sept. 482/1 (advt.) No domestic punctures or blow-outs—just easy running over smooth roads to Health and Happiness.

1967 I. Hamilton Man with Brown Paper Face vii. 94 This road..safe enough if you don't have a blow-out.

5. The suppression of an arc in an electric circuit; a device for producing this. Also attributive.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > [noun] > suppression of arc

blowout1902

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 97/2 A magnetic blow-out is simply a small magnet so arranged that the arc caused by breaking the circuit takes place in the magnetic field.

1916 Standardization Rules of Amer. Inst. Electr. Engin. 28 June §731 Fuses of the magnetic blow-out type.

1930 Engineering 7 Feb. 173/3 Anything which tends to produce sudden speed-changes, such as..magnetic blow outs.

6. A rapid, uncontrolled uprush of fluid from an oil well. Frequently attributive in blowout preventer n. a heavy valve or assembly (‘stack’) of valves usually fitted at the top of a hole during drilling and closed in the event of a blowout to control the flow.

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society > occupation and work > industry > drilling for oil or gas > [noun] > uprush of fluid from oil well

blowout1916

society > occupation and work > equipment > oil and natural gas recovery equipment > [noun] > structure or equipment above ground or water

wellhead1870

blowout preventer1916

pipe rack1948

topside1982

1916 A. B. Thompson Oil-field Devel. & Petroleum Mining vii. 367 An apparatus which is largely employed with rotaries is what is called a ‘Blow-out Preventer’.

1916 A. B. Thompson Oil-field Devel. & Petroleum Mining x. 457 Heavy mud mixtures are an additional safeguard against ‘blow-outs’.

1932 Amer. Speech 7 264 Blow-out, the violent and uncontrolled outburst of gas under high pressure, or of such gas accompanied by oil.

1966 Petroleum Handbk. (Shell Internat. Petroleum Co.) (ed. 5) 38/1 A system of control equipment..installed at the well head..termed the ‘blow-out preventer stack’ can close off the annulus between drill pipe and casing within 15 seconds..and can hold pressure up to 5000 lb/in².

1968 Daily Tel. 16 Nov. 1 Lifeboats saved 47 men from the gale-lashed North Sea after a ‘blow out’ on a gas-drilling platform.

1968 Daily Tel. 16 Nov. 22/5 ‘The well blew out.’..A blow-out happens when gas rushes up the bore-hole at about 4,000 lb a square inch making it uncontrollable.

1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans xi. 365 This transport process exposes the world's coasts and estuaries to the hazard of oil spills... The drilling of offshore wells exposes these areas to the risks of blowouts.

1986 New Yorker 27 Jan. 69/2 The disaster occurred in the space of five minutes, between the removal of the Christmas tree and the repositioning of the blowout preventer.

7. The blowing of a fuse.

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1928 Daily Express 25 June 12 Two of the municipal employees injured at the Johannesburg Power Station when a mouse caused a blow-out, have both died.

Draft additions October 2009

slang (originally U.S.).

a. A conspicuous or irretrievable failure; a fiasco, a debacle. Cf. wash-out n. 4.

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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful > one who is a failure

botch1769

non-starter1839

schlemiel1868

also-ran1896

rinky-dink1900

flivver1915

wash-out1918

jabroni1919

bust1922

blowout1925

dropout1930

zilch1933

sad sack1943

loser1955

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful > that which is a failure

fizzle1846

fiasco1855

frost1874

blue duck1889

wash-out1902

blowout1925

turkey1927

flopperoo1936

stiff1937

muck-up1942

bomb1954

fizzer1957

lead balloon1960

damp squib1963

bummer1967

downer1976

1925 R. Jeans Charlot Revue Sketches 37 I have a parlourmaid who is a sweet, good girl—but she has no idea of time!.. As a domestic she's a complete blow-out.

1939 L. B. Howsley Argot 8 Blow Out,..a job that failed.

1977 R. Bassett Tinfish Run vi. 146 It was a damn fool idea in the beginning, but now it's a blow-out.

1990 Successful Selling Mar. 44/2 Where our salespeople wrote on a lead card ‘blow out’, nobody ever wanted to re-contact that potential customer again.

2004 Car & Driver July 30/3 I walk over..knowing full well what it's like to be in his shoes, facing a financial blowout, gobsmacked by your own bovine stupidity.

b. Chiefly U.S. Sport and Politics. A match or contest in which one side overwhelms the other; a win by a wide margin, a rout; (hence contextually) a sweeping or emphatic victory, a heavy or crushing defeat. Also attributive.

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1933 Washington Post 9 Oct. 17/6 Football followers are scratching their craniums for answers to the blowouts that occurred..Saturday afternoon. Probably the biggest upset was little West Virginia Wesleyan's sterling victory over the highly touted New York U. Violets.

1951 Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News 28 Sept. 14/2 (heading) Red Sox complete blowout.

1976 Portsmouth (New Hampsh.) Herald 12 Jan. 9/8 The Wildcats came as close as they will to a blowout with an 86-74 victory over St Anselm's College at Gym yesterday.

1980 New Pittsburgh Courier 22 Nov. 21/4 Reagan, meanwhile, showed during the campaign that he had learned valuable lessons from Lyndon Johnson's blow-out of Barry Goldwater in 1964.

1991 Football Action '91 28/1 The Tigers..lost a total of seven games—four by blowouts and three by slim margins.

2009 Honolulu Weekly 11 Feb. 28/2 But clearly—even after a blowout election—democrats feel they must emphasize harmony.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	blowout
释义	blowoutn. Etymology: blow- comb. form 1. 1. An outbreak of anger; a quarrel, disturbance, row. dialect and U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > [noun] > fit(s) or outburst(s) of anger wratha1200 wrethea1400 hatelc1400 angerc1425 braida1450 fumea1529 passion1530 fustian fume1553 ruff1567 pelt1573 spleen1590 blaze1597 huff1599 blustera1616 dog-flawa1625 overboiling1767 explosion1769 squall1807 blowout1825 flare-up1837 fit1841 bust-up1842 wax1854 Scot1859 pelter1861 ructions1862 performance1864 outfling1865 rise1877 detonation1878 flare-out1879 bait1882 paddy1894 paddywhack1899 wingding1927 wing-dinger1933 eppie1987 society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel > instance of ganglinga1387 altercation1410 brawla1500 heat1549 wranglea1555 brabble1566 paroxysm1578 wrangling1580 brangle1600 branglement1617 rixation1623 row1746 skimmington1753 mêlée1765 breeze1785 squeal1788 hash1789 rook1808 blow-up1809 blowout1825 scena1826 reerie1832 catfight1854 barney1855 wigs on the green1856 bull and cow1859 scrap1890 slanging match1896 snap1897 up-and-downer1927 brannigan1941 rhubarb1941 bitch fight1949 punch-up1958 shout-up1965 shouting match1970 1825 J. K. Paulding John Bull in Amer. 137 We had a blow out here last Sunday, and half a dozen troublesome fellows..were done for by the brave rowdies. 1826 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1839) IX. 44 At dinner we had a little blow-out on Sophia's part. 1842 Spirit of Times (Philadelphia) 15 Feb. I've had five breezes, seven blow-outs, nine shindies, and a dozen ructions on this $1 Relief note. 2. A dinner, supper, or other entertainment for which an abundant supply of food and drink is provided or at which it is consumed; a ‘feast’ or ‘feed’. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] farmeOE feasta1200 gesteningc1200 mangerc1390 mangerya1400 junkerya1425 banquet1483 convive1483 gestonyea1500 junketa1500 festine1520 Maundy1533 junketing1577 entertainmenta1616 entertain1620 regalo1622 treatmenta1656 treat1659 regale1670 regality1672 festino1741 spreadation1780 spread1822 blowout1823 tuck-out1823 burst1849 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. vii. 193 ‘She sent me a card for her blow-out,’ said Mowbray; ‘and so I am resolved to go.’ 1837 W. Irving Capt. Bonneville (1895) I. 191 Captain Bonneville now gave the men what, in frontier phrase is termed ‘a regular blow-out!’ 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxvi. 87 They had a grand blow-out, and..drank in the forecastle, a barrel of gin. 1856 F. E. Paget Owlet of Owlstone Edge 174 Such a jolly blow-out as there was when the Bishop was here. 1913 C. E. Mulford Coming of Cassidy vii. 112 I'll clean you out an' have a real, genuine blow-out on your money. 1930 R. Lehmann Note in Music vii. 264 Have a nice blowout and a good sleep afterwards. 1966 ‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 172 Saint's menu in between such blood-building blowouts was rabbit, with pollard as a savoury. 3. a. Mining. A portion of a lode where the mineral appears to have been dislodged by some eruptive force. Also figurative. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > vein > vein of ore > portion showing evidence of eruption blowout1873 1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xviii. 333 All the strange terms in mining parlance: ‘true lodes,..blow-outs’. 1901 S. E. White Westerners xxiii. 214 He saw that..a third [claim]..gave indications of being nothing but a blow-out. b. A butte, the top of which has been blown out by the wind until it resembles the crater of a volcano; a hollow in an area of shifting sand, or light soil, caused by the action of the wind. Originally U.S. Also spec. a water-hole (see quot. 1935). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > made by wind blowout1893 the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > dried-up water hole blowout1935 1893 Smith & Pound in Bot. Surv. Nebraska II. 8 If a spot on a dry hill becomes bare, the loose sand is blown away, a small hollow is made... Such blow outs were seen 100 surrounding meters in diameter and 15..meters deep. 1895 P. A. Rydberg in Contrib. U.S. National Herbarium III. No. 3. 135 It sometimes happens that settlers [in the sand-hill region] a few years after breaking their land find a field transformed into a big blowout. 1897 R. Pound & F. E. Clements Phytogeogr. Nebraska (1898) 248 A small number of these grasses are especially adapted to these localities and are uniformly to be found in such blow outs... These grasses mark a second formation, which may be called the blow out formation. 1897 R. Pound & F. E. Clements Phytogeogr. Nebraska (1898) 248 The blow out grasses..bind the sand together with their roots. 1911 F. O. Bower Plant-life on Land ix. 151 Close by an effete Dune with its grasses weakened in growth is being attacked by the wind, and eroded into hollows or ‘Blow-outs’. 1935 Discovery Dec. 359/2 ‘Blow outs’, i.e. dried up water holes, from which the wind has eroded the sands. 4. A burst in a pneumatic rubber tyre caused by air-pressure from the inside. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > explosive sound > [noun] > explosive emission of air > from type blowout1908 1908 Westm. Gaz. 7 Jan. 4/1 Miraculum will not seal a blow-out. 1911 R. W. Chambers Common Law iv. 117 Your young man has me in the ditch with two blow-outs and the gas afire! 1915 Literary Digest 21 Aug. 387/1 The Goodyear Cord Tires, without a blow-out, took the car back to Detroit. 1915 Literary Digest 4 Sept. 482/1 (advt.) No domestic punctures or blow-outs—just easy running over smooth roads to Health and Happiness. 1967 I. Hamilton Man with Brown Paper Face vii. 94 This road..safe enough if you don't have a blow-out. 5. The suppression of an arc in an electric circuit; a device for producing this. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > [noun] > suppression of arc blowout1902 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 97/2 A magnetic blow-out is simply a small magnet so arranged that the arc caused by breaking the circuit takes place in the magnetic field. 1916 Standardization Rules of Amer. Inst. Electr. Engin. 28 June §731 Fuses of the magnetic blow-out type. 1930 Engineering 7 Feb. 173/3 Anything which tends to produce sudden speed-changes, such as..magnetic blow outs. 6. A rapid, uncontrolled uprush of fluid from an oil well. Frequently attributive in blowout preventer n. a heavy valve or assembly (‘stack’) of valves usually fitted at the top of a hole during drilling and closed in the event of a blowout to control the flow. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > drilling for oil or gas > [noun] > uprush of fluid from oil well blowout1916 society > occupation and work > equipment > oil and natural gas recovery equipment > [noun] > structure or equipment above ground or water wellhead1870 blowout preventer1916 pipe rack1948 topside1982 1916 A. B. Thompson Oil-field Devel. & Petroleum Mining vii. 367 An apparatus which is largely employed with rotaries is what is called a ‘Blow-out Preventer’. 1916 A. B. Thompson Oil-field Devel. & Petroleum Mining x. 457 Heavy mud mixtures are an additional safeguard against ‘blow-outs’. 1932 Amer. Speech 7 264 Blow-out, the violent and uncontrolled outburst of gas under high pressure, or of such gas accompanied by oil. 1966 Petroleum Handbk. (Shell Internat. Petroleum Co.) (ed. 5) 38/1 A system of control equipment..installed at the well head..termed the ‘blow-out preventer stack’ can close off the annulus between drill pipe and casing within 15 seconds..and can hold pressure up to 5000 lb/in². 1968 Daily Tel. 16 Nov. 1 Lifeboats saved 47 men from the gale-lashed North Sea after a ‘blow out’ on a gas-drilling platform. 1968 Daily Tel. 16 Nov. 22/5 ‘The well blew out.’..A blow-out happens when gas rushes up the bore-hole at about 4,000 lb a square inch making it uncontrollable. 1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans xi. 365 This transport process exposes the world's coasts and estuaries to the hazard of oil spills... The drilling of offshore wells exposes these areas to the risks of blowouts. 1986 New Yorker 27 Jan. 69/2 The disaster occurred in the space of five minutes, between the removal of the Christmas tree and the repositioning of the blowout preventer. 7. The blowing of a fuse. ΚΠ 1928 Daily Express 25 June 12 Two of the municipal employees injured at the Johannesburg Power Station when a mouse caused a blow-out, have both died. Draft additions October 2009 slang (originally U.S.). a. A conspicuous or irretrievable failure; a fiasco, a debacle. Cf. wash-out n. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful > one who is a failure botch1769 non-starter1839 schlemiel1868 also-ran1896 rinky-dink1900 flivver1915 wash-out1918 jabroni1919 bust1922 blowout1925 dropout1930 zilch1933 sad sack1943 loser1955 the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful > that which is a failure fizzle1846 fiasco1855 frost1874 blue duck1889 wash-out1902 blowout1925 turkey1927 flopperoo1936 stiff1937 muck-up1942 bomb1954 fizzer1957 lead balloon1960 damp squib1963 bummer1967 downer1976 1925 R. Jeans Charlot Revue Sketches 37 I have a parlourmaid who is a sweet, good girl—but she has no idea of time!.. As a domestic she's a complete blow-out. 1939 L. B. Howsley Argot 8 Blow Out,..a job that failed. 1977 R. Bassett Tinfish Run vi. 146 It was a damn fool idea in the beginning, but now it's a blow-out. 1990 Successful Selling Mar. 44/2 Where our salespeople wrote on a lead card ‘blow out’, nobody ever wanted to re-contact that potential customer again. 2004 Car & Driver July 30/3 I walk over..knowing full well what it's like to be in his shoes, facing a financial blowout, gobsmacked by your own bovine stupidity. b. Chiefly U.S. Sport and Politics. A match or contest in which one side overwhelms the other; a win by a wide margin, a rout; (hence contextually) a sweeping or emphatic victory, a heavy or crushing defeat. Also attributive. ΚΠ 1933 Washington Post 9 Oct. 17/6 Football followers are scratching their craniums for answers to the blowouts that occurred..Saturday afternoon. Probably the biggest upset was little West Virginia Wesleyan's sterling victory over the highly touted New York U. Violets. 1951 Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News 28 Sept. 14/2 (heading) Red Sox complete blowout. 1976 Portsmouth (New Hampsh.) Herald 12 Jan. 9/8 The Wildcats came as close as they will to a blowout with an 86-74 victory over St Anselm's College at Gym yesterday. 1980 New Pittsburgh Courier 22 Nov. 21/4 Reagan, meanwhile, showed during the campaign that he had learned valuable lessons from Lyndon Johnson's blow-out of Barry Goldwater in 1964. 1991 Football Action '91 28/1 The Tigers..lost a total of seven games—four by blowouts and three by slim margins. 2009 Honolulu Weekly 11 Feb. 28/2 But clearly—even after a blowout election—democrats feel they must emphasize harmony. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1823
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