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noun 
  1. A fencer's foil.
  2. A short needle with a strong point.
  3. A spliff or other form of marijuana cigarette.
    • 2005: to make his point, lead rapper B-Real fired up a in front of the cameras and several hundred thousand people and announced, "I'm taking a hit for every one of y'all!" " Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 461)
verb 
  1. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
  2. To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.
Translations: 
  • German: abstumpfen
    (trans-mid)
    (trans-bottom) (trans-top, To repress or weaken)
    (trans-mid)
    (trans-bottom)
adjective (blunter, bluntest)
  1. Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; not sharp.
  2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
  3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
  4. Hard to impress or penetrate.
Translations: 
  • French: émoussé
    (trans-mid)
  • German: abgestumpft
    (trans-mid)
    (trans-bottom)
Etymology: maybe from blundra.


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