fireworks

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of firework.
2. (plural, plural-only)An event or a display where fireworks are set off.

   “5000 Marrons in Battery, which continue firing to the End of the Fireworks.”

   “By now, a great many people were walking towards the fireworks but their steps fell so softly and they chatted in such gentle voices there was no more noise than a warm, continual, murmurous humming, the cosy should of shared happiness, and the night filled with a muted, bourgeois yet authentic magic. Above our heads, the fireworks hung dissolving earrings on the night. Soon we lay down in a stubbled field to watch the fireworks.”

   “[T]he fireworks were irretrievably connected with the establishment and political success, and tried to bridge the gap to public favour; just as Water Music helped keep the King's image sweet, so Fireworks Music celebrated the national benefit from the power this generated. […] [T]he fireworks were run as a successful commercial enterprise as well as a symbol of monarchical power. The prudent George [II of Great Britain] would surely have been pleased equally by both.”

3. (figuratively, plural, plural-only)A boisterous or violent event or situation.

   “I left the room after John came home drunk but before the fireworks went off.”

   “Legal fireworks began yesterday in Benin at the pre-hearing of the petition by the People's Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in the September 28, 2016 election in Edo State, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, challenging the declaration of Mr. Godwin Obaseki of All Progressives Congress, APC, by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as winner of the election.”

   “Bedlam started slow, but fireworks started in the second quarter as Oklahoma State took a 17–10 lead to the break.”