tearout

1. (countable, uncountable)Synonym of blowout.

   He's got a bunch of tearouts on the finished side. It's cheaper and easier to redo it than to patch it, but the job's unprofitable either way.

2. (countable, uncountable)The shearing of metal by a bolt, pin, rivet, or similar fastener due to stress.

3. (countable, uncountable)The tearing of tissue at the position of an incision, suture, staple, pin, etc.

4. (countable, uncountable)The demolition phase of remodeling or decommissioning.

   The plan is to have the tearout done by next week.

5. (countable, uncountable)A card, page, or set of pages designed to be detached from a magazine or book, usually along a perforated line.

6. (countable, uncountable)A subgenre of dubstep characterized by intense basslines, distorted synths, and high-energy rhythms.

7. (uncountable)A feature allowing a tab or other entity to be dragged out of a window and to create its own new window.

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