2009, Craig Pearson, "Battlefield Is Back!", PC Gamer, Number 187, May 2009, page 49 (image caption):
Flying fighter planes into this bridge results in 'splodey bridge disease.
2010, Maigen Thomas, "Find a Couch on Craigslist, Not a Boyfriend: A Horror Story About Internet Dating", in The Internet Is Always Right: The Intrepid Media 2009 Collection, Lulu.com (2010), →ISBN, page 240:
But the world doesn't actually have to end in order for many, many valuable parts of it to be shown in CGI-heavy, ear-punishing 'splodey scenes.
2010, The Official Xbox Magazine, Issues 107-110, page 40:
Lara fired her trademark pistols while Totec brandished a rifle, and both took advantage of unlimited grenades to unleash some 'splodey fun.
2011, "Acknowledgements", in Anton Strout, Dead Waters, Ace Books (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
[…] my agent, Kristine Dahl, and Laura Neely, at ICM, who keep track of the kind of details that make my head all 'splodey; […]
2015, Trevor Talley, The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Circuit Power!: Minecraft Redstone and the Keys to Supercharging Your Builds in Sandbox Games, Triumph Books (2015), →ISBN, page 75:
Common Uses: Mostly just 'splodey stuff, but particularly traps and cannons. Check out the Intermediate Builds section for how to make a real nice TNT cannon.
Adverb: "(slang, childish or humorous) in a manner involving or reminiscent of an explosion"edit
2013, Michelle Witte, The Faker's Guide to the Classics: Everything You Need to Know About the Books You Should Have Read (But Didn’t), Globe Pequot (2013), →ISBN, page 71:
Really, though, Jordan just likes making things go 'splodey—and who can blame him? Destruction is fun, especially when it involves un ¡kahoom! muy grande, like taking out the only bridge into town.
'Okay, it's possible I was seeing things, but this is one of those cases where I don't think so. Stuff went 'splodey, then there was two of me, then there was another you, and the other me was dead, then the other you brought me here.'
2015, Trevor Talley, The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Circuit Power!: Minecraft Redstone and the Keys to Supercharging Your Builds in Sandbox Games, Triumph Books (2015), →ISBN, page 171:
Just try rebuilding a section of a Redstone build after even a small portion of your work has become damaged, much less after a Creeper has decided to go all splodey on it.
