tearout

Plural: tearouts

Noun

• Synonym of blowout.
• The shearing of metal by a bolt, pin, rivet, or similar fastener due to stress.
• The tearing of tissue at the position of an incision, suture, staple, pin, etc.
• The demolition phase of remodeling or decommissioning.
• A card, page, or set of pages designed to be detached from a magazine or book, usually along a perforated line.
• A subgenre of dubstep characterized by intense basslines, distorted synths, and high-energy rhythms.
• A feature allowing a tab or other entity to be dragged out of a window and to create its own new window.

Examples

• He's got a bunch of tearouts on the finished side. It's cheaper and easier to redo it than to patch it, but the job's unprofitable either way.
• The plan is to have the tearout done by next week.

Synonyms

blowout

Related Words

teardown, tearoff