blevey

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

blevey (plural bleveys)

  1. (informal) A BLEVE

Verb[edit]

blevey (third-person singular simple present bleveys, present participle bleveying, simple past and past participle bleveyed)

  1. (informal) To explode as the result of a BLEVE
    “Mississauga had one blevey,” said JoAnn Kropf-Hedley, who represented Emergency Management Ontario in Melrose and sits on all of Northumberland County’s emergency committees. “This (at Melrose) was three bleveys. There’s never been a derailment in Canada that’s had three cars blevey. It was really unbelievable.” [1]