bleavy
n.— «Bleavy. It’s a boiling liquid vapor explosion. What you have is the metal container ruptures. You have a violent and sudden release of liquid.» —“Damage From Propane Explosion ‘Into the Millions’” by Edward Lawrence KLAS-TV (Las Vegas, Nevada) Ju;y 31, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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