blowoff

1. (brewing) The removal of excess foam and carbon dioxide from the fermentation vessel during the active fermentation stage.Examples: "I performed several experiments to determine the effect of the blowoff method of fermentation on bitterness, protein, and higher alcohols."; "This blowoff method is wasteful because you lose a couple of quarts of beer, but it is the best way to reconcile the sanitation advantages of a closed fermenter with the behavior of top cropping yeast strains."; "But in retrospective of his photography, there is a shot of a lone carboy perched on a table, lit by a bare bulb with a. blowoff hose curling around in a graceful arc to a round flask with settled yeast."

2. (finance) A period of rapid and usually unsustainable increase (or, sometimes, decrease) in market prices.Examples: "Often this throwing-in-the-towel mentality is pure crowd following and results in entry at the blowoff phase of the trend ."; "A crash in china would reverberate across Asia, and a blowoff that resulted in political instability would have dire consequences."; "All the questions refer to trades made in the blowoff phase of the market , whether stated or not."

3. (crime) The stage in a con game in which one gets rid of the mark after taking his or her money.Examples: "Then comes the blowoff, by which they get rid of him ."; "White grifters call it the blowoff."; "At the last moment something goes wrong, the money is lost (taking off the touch), and a physical altercation or other looming drama hurries the sucker out the door – and preferably out of town (the blowoff)."

4. (colloquial) An outburst of temper or excitement.Examples: "Besides, I had come down for rest and the kind of blowoff a man needs after five months of being snowed in and working his tail off."; "He either talked along about home or else he paced up and down his cage silently and you could tell there was a big blowoff coming ."; "The town became what is called a "blowoff" town , where the soldiers would go to gamble, dance, drink, and carouse with women."colloquial

5. (UK, slang) A fart.UKslang