Any of a class of powerful explosives composed of nitroglycerin or ammonium nitrate dispersed in an absorbent medium with a combustible dope, such as wood pulp, and an antacid, such as calcium carbonate, used in blasting and mining.
Slang Something exceptionally exciting or wonderful.
Slang Something exceptionally dangerous: These allegations are political dynamite.
To blow up, shatter, or otherwise destroy with or as if with dynamite.
To charge with dynamite.
Slang Outstanding; superb: a dynamite performance; a dynamite outfit.