Economists versus semantics

I've been trying to stay away from the whole death-of-capitalism thing, but one sentence, one word today amid the statistics and eschatological economics just floored me.

"I'm just watching the dollar self-implode," said Brian Dolan, chief currency strategist at Forex.com.

...Again, Large Hadron Collider and quantum singularities aside, is it possible to implode in such a way that is not self-implosion?