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• n  the failure of a jet engine caused by an interruption of the fuel supply or by faulty combustion
• n  a complete or conspicuous failure
  the spectacular flame-out of the company's stock cost many people their life savings

• A new set of interrogations pushes Israel's prime minister deeper into flame-out mode.
• The Prisoner, the first Star Trek series--even Twin Peaks went from phenom to flame-out faster than you can say, Who killed Laura Palmer? Lost is different.
• I'm just saying, after so spectacular a flame-out in the market, I think Paul should reinforce his credibility by either admitting there was indeed gambling in this establishment .

News & Articles

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• McAdams On: BBC, Digital Disaster and Eisenhower
  Three disparate news items recently struck me as congruent. One described the flame-out of the BBC’s Digital Media Initiative.
  June 20, 2013 - Television Broadcast
• From the ashes of Webvan, Amazon builds a grocery business
  By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The online grocery start-up Webvan may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three years before shutting its doors in 2001. Twelve years later, though, Webvan is rising from the dead - in the form of an online grocery business called ...
  June 18, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Robert Crippen in CNN International
  Of course, you're doing it un-powered. So, it's a gliding kind of an entry that has some similarities to doing flame-out approaches in high-powered aircraft,Crippen said. "But the way we designed the flight controls, the orbiter is very...
• Craig Button in NHL.com
  If these teams, specifically Washington and Chicago, have any type of a flame-out or any type of an early exit,Button said, "it (goaltending) is the first place they're going to look and they're not going to stop looking until there's a...