FALLOUT

Fallout

Fallout is a series of post-apocalyptic role-playing video games created by Interplay Entertainment. Although the series is set during the 22nd and 23rd centuries, its retrofuturistic setting and artwork are influenced by the post-war culture of 1950s America, and its combination of hope for the promises of technology and lurking fear of nuclear annihilation. A forerunner for Fallout is Wasteland, a 1988 video game of which the Fallout series is regarded to be a spiritual successor. Although the game worlds are different, the background story, inhabitants, locations, and characters draw many parallels.

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Fall Out

"Fall Out" is the 17th and final episode of the allegorical British science fiction series The Prisoner, which starred Patrick McGoohan as the incarcerated Number Six. The episode originally aired in the UK on ITV on 1 February 1968, and was first broadcast in the United States on CBS on 21 September 1968.

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fall out

Verb

  1. To come out of something by falling.
    I opened the cupboard and a can fell out on to my foot.
  2. To cease to be on friendly terms.
    Dave and I fell out after a long argument.
  1. to leave one's place in the current formation of ranks in order to take one's place in a new formation.
  2. To leave one's current location to report for duty at a new location.
    The company fell out for an artillery drill.
  1. To turn out, happen.


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fallout

Noun

  1. The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.
  2. The particles themselves.
    On 26 April 1986 the reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant located in the Soviet Union near Pripyat in Ukraine exploded. Further explosions and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area.
  3. A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.
    Psychological fallout in the shadow of terrorism, title of an article by Dr. Abraham Twerski, M.D. in 1.
  4. A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed.
  5. The person who declines such an offer.


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