Associations to the word «Meltdown»

Wiktionary

MELTDOWN, noun. Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping.
MELTDOWN, noun. A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis.
MELTDOWN, noun. (figuratively) A tantrum.

Dictionary definition

MELTDOWN, noun. Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping.
MELTDOWN, noun. A disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown; "there is little likelihood of a meltdown comparable to the American banking collapse in March 1933".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats