Meaning of Blazer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A semi-formal jacket.
2. A surname.
3. A person or thing that blazes (marks or cuts a route).
4. Anything that blazes or glows, as with heat or flame.
5. The dish used when cooking directly over the flame of a chafing-dish lamp, or the coals of a brazier.
6. One who smokes cannabis; a stoner.
   US, slang
7. One who spreads news, or blazes matters abroad.
   archaic
8. An older member of a sporting club, often with old-fashioned or conservative views.
   UK, slang
9. A con or swindle.

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Examples

“blazers of crime”

“"What'd I tell⟳ you?" said Bill. "The old wolverine was tryin' to run⟳ a blazer on us. All he needed was to be showed we meant business. And he can't make⟳ no trouble⟳ for us when he gets out, 'cause our two words are better'n his."”

“These folks don't take⟳ kindly to no brash stranger comin' in here tryin' to run⟳ a blazer on 'em.”

“Bad, he doubtless was. But when he tried to run⟳ a blazer on this grim little cowman, Slaughter had run⟳ him.”

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