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full-blown

[fool-blohn]

full-blown

[fool-blohn]
adjective
1.
fully or completely developed: full-blown AIDS; an idea expanded into a full-blown novel.
2.
in full bloom: a full-blown rose.

Origin:
1605–15
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Full-blown is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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full-blown
 
adj
1.  characterized by the fullest, strongest, or best development
2.  in full bloom

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