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noun
- The act of striking or hitting.
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A fabricator is used to direct a sharp to the surface of the stone.
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During an exchange to end round 13, Duran landed a to the mid-section.
- An unfortunate occurrence.
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A further to the group came in 1917 when Thomson died while canoeing in Algonquin Park.
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(slang) (uncountable) cocaine
- A strong wind.
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We're having a bit of a this afternoon.
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(colloquial) A chance to catch one"s breath.
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The players were able to get a bit of a during the last timeout.
verb (blows, blowing, blew or (dialect) blowed, blown or (dialect) blowed)
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(intransitive) To produce an air current
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Quotations
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Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! ! -- King Lear
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(intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
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The leaves through the streets in the fall.
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(intransitive) To explode
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Get away from that burning gas tank! It's about to !
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(intransitive) (slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck)
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This blows!
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(intransitive) (of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater it has taken in while feeding.
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There's nothing more thrilling to the whale watcher than to see a whale surface and .
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There she blows! (That is, "I see a whale spouting!")
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(transitive) To propel by an air current.
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Blow the dust off that book and open it up.
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(transitive) To squander.
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I managed to $1000 at blackjack in under an hour.
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(transitive) (vulgar) To fellate.
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Who did you have to to get those backstage passes?
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(transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as, to blow bubbles, to blow glass
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(transitive) To play a musical instrument such as a horn or woodwind.
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"He was blowing saxophone for me." Ike Turner, interview by Terri Gross, "Fresh Air", NPR, 1996.
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(transitive) To leave
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Let's this joint.
Etymology: blawan "make an air current, sound a wind instrument" (past tense bleow, pp. blawen), from Proto-Germanic
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blí-anan, from Proto-Indo-European
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bhle- "to swell, blow up".
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