Meaning of Blinder | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something that blinds, literally or figuratively.
2. A bag or cloth put over the head of a difficult horse while it is being handled or mounted.
3. A screen attached to a horse's bridle preventing it from being able to see things to its side.
   often, plural, plural-only
4. Something that impairs visual or mental perception in a way figuratively compared to horses' blinders.
5. An exceptional performance.
   British, slang
6. A bout of heavy drinking.
   slang
7. A bright light used to blind the audience temporarily during a scene change.

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Examples

“From both sides of his head a blackness swiftly grew like blinders on a horse and darkly narrowed his field of vision.”

“Orientalism itself, furthermore, was an exclusively male province; like so many professional guilds during the modern period, it viewed itself and its subject matter with sexist blinders.”

“As it was, innocence was his blinder.”

“I, I, got a new girlfriend / She feels like he's on top / And I don't feel no remorse / And you can't see past my blinders”

“He played a blinder this afternoon on the cricket ground.”

“And we asked the blue winger, who in our game / had played what they call a blinder, to help out”

“If a man goes out on a blinder, he might be charged with being drunk and incapable and therefore have a criminal record, although he is an honourable man.”

“When the 'blinders' are switched off, and the audience's eyes given time to re-adjust, the new scene is in place […]”

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