Noun
(plural flame-outs)
- The act of flaming out or burning out; extinguishing.
- The act of quitting or failing, especially due to overwork, or in a dramatic manner.
- The company was one of Silicon Valley's more famous dot-com flame-outs.
Verb
(third-person singular simple present flames out, present participle flaming out, simple past and past participle flamed out)
- Of processes and equipment involving combustion, to fail due to extinction of flame.
- (figuratively) To fail, usually spectacularly.
- burn up, fire up, flame up, flare up
- Mary's temper flamed out
