A tantrum or emotional outburst.
An autistic response to stress or sensory overload, in which the person is overwhelmed by intense, seemingly disproportionate emotions, behaving erratically and becoming unable to mask.
Severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and potentially in radiation escaping.
A situation being likened to a nuclear meltdown; a crisis.
Computer engineers were at a loss last night to explain why the Government had been hit by arguably the worst electronic meltdown in the history of Whitehall. https://web.archive.org/web/20041209011615/http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=587262
A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).
A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
The act by which something is taken.
Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example).
Alluring; attractive.