blowing up

Receiving a lot of phone calls and/or text messages in a short period of time. A: "Wow, you're really blowing up right now." B: "Ugh, it's just this stupid group text. The other people in it text each other every five seconds!" The senator's phones were blowing up as his constituents called en masse to urge him to vote against the confirmation.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
&Aelig;Bbe	-	Anglo-Saxon
Bagadata	-	Ancient Persian
Amery	AM-ə-ree	English (Rare)
Balmforth	['ba:mfəθ]
Abeni	-	Western African, Yoruba
Gurmeet	-	Indian (Sikh)