One strip, Foolish Grandpa and Sour Henry, shows Grandpa being hit on the head by a sandbag and blown up by dynamite.
But the poem set off tiny sticks of dynamite behind my eyes.
“Coulda been a dynamite gig, too, man,” Berry Oakley laments.
He would turn up at private views with distress flares and sticks of dynamite and stuff.
The state he lived in licensed purchasers of dynamite and other incendiaries only after a background check.
It is said that dynamite must have been used, and that in a very large quantity.
He was tackling a delicate job—like juggling a car-load of dynamite.
None of your dynamite pudding that,—as green as grass and as sour as vinegar.
His hands had been blown away by a dynamite cartridge while fishing in some lagoon.
The railway will know where to go for dynamite should we get short at any time.
1867, from Swedish dynamit, coined 1867 by its inventor, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), from Greek dynamis "power" (see dynamic (adj.)) + -ite (2). Figurative sense of "something potentially dangerous" is from 1922. Positive sense of "dynamic and excellent" by mid-1960s, perhaps originally Black English.
1881, from dynamite (n.). Related: Dynamited; dynamiting.
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(also dyno-mite) Excellent; superior; super: ''Dynamite. I knew we'd get along/ DYN-OMITE! The Blammo 12-gauge has a precision-cast hollow-core slug with stabilization tail fins for accuracy at long range
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