fireworks
nounnouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈfaɪ̯.ə.wɜːks//
- United States//ˈfaɪ̯.ɚ.wɝks//
An event or a display where fireworks are set off.
noun
- 1
Also a form of fireworkplural of firework.
Etymology
From fire + work(s). The similarity with Dutch vuurwerk and German Feuerwerk, both “fireworks”, is hardly coincidental. Since the word was apparently first attested in English circa 1575, probably from the Dutch (1540), from the German (sense early 16th c.), from Middle High German viurwerc (14th c. as “fuel, firewood”). A spread from the south northwards is also in line with the fact that the first European fireworks were produced in Italy in the late 14th century.
noun
- 1
An event or a display where fireworks are set off.
5000 Marrons in Battery, which continue firing to the End of the Fireworks.
- 2
figurativeA boisterous or violent event or situation.
I left the room after John came home drunk but before the fireworks went off.
Legal fireworks began yesterday in Benin at the pre-hearing of the petition by the People's Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in the September 28, 2016 election in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, challenging the declaration of Mr. Godwin Obaseki of All Progressives Congress, APC, by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as winner of the election.
Bedlam started slow, but fireworks started in the second quarter as Oklahoma State took a 17–10 lead to the break.
fireworks · An event or a display where fireworks are set off.
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