blowout sale

English

Noun

blowout sale (plural blowout sales)

1. A sale that is advertised as having bigger than usual discounts, with a real or notional intent to deplete the inventory.

   Synonyms: clearance, closeout

   • 2011, Chris Zane, Reinventing the Wheel: The Science of Creating Lifetime Customers, BenBella Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 141:

     All that was left to do was hold a giant blowout sale, liquidate our entire inventory, and use the proceeds to pay back the $25,000 I still owed my vendors.