blow
IPA: bɫˈoʊ
noun
- A strong wind.
- (informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
- (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
- (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
- (uncountable, US Chicago dialectal, slang) Heroin.
- (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.
- (nautical) An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
- The act of striking or hitting.
- A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- A damaging occurrence.
- (Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
- (Australia, New Zealand) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
- (television) Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”)
- A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
- A display of anything brilliant or bright.
- A bloom, state of flowering.
- A surname.
verb
- (intransitive) To produce an air current.
- (transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
- (transitive, figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- (transitive) To create or shape by blowing.
- (transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- (transitive) To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
- (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
- (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- (intransitive) To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
- (transitive, historical, military, of a person) To blow from a gun.
- (transitive) To cause the sudden destruction of.
- (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
- (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
- (intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be very undesirable.
- (transitive, vulgar) To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
- (transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- (transitive) To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
- (intransitive) (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
- (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
- (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
- (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- (dated) To talk loudly; boast; brag.
- (UK, slang, archaic) To expose, or inform on.
- (slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.
- (Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- (slang, colloquial) To flatulate or defecate.
- To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
adjective
- (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
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Examples of "blow" in Sentences
- The blow would stun the fish.
- The wind was blowing through sill.
- The bomb blows the dummies into the air.
- The engineer blowed a fuse accidentally.
- Green is the trees that blow in the wind.
- They were enervated by the blowing winds.
- The chip removed by the blow is the flake.
- This book is a mind blowing and iconoclastic.
- It was easy to blow and the fingering was simple.
- She took two breathalyzer tests, first blowing 0.08, then blowing 0.09.
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