blast
n.— «That system called for entering a market slowly, studying all the angles, and then launching a clearly superior product with a huge advertising blast.» —“For P&G’s Rivals, the New Game Is to Beat the Leader, Not Copy It” by John Koten Wall Street Journal May 1, 1985. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What if, instead of being an inanimate object, a dictionary were alive? That’s the idea behind a lavishly illustrated new children’s book called The Dictionary Story (Bookshop|Amazon) by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston. This is part of a...
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