Meaning of blow | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An instance of the act of striking or hitting.
2. A surname.
3. A state of flowering; a bloom.
4. A strong wind.
   countable, uncountable
5. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
6. A display or mass of flowers; a yield.
7. A chance to catch one's breath.
   countable, informal, uncountable
8. A damaging occurrence.
9. A display of anything bright or brilliant.
   figuratively
10. Powder cocaine.
    US, slang, uncountable
11. A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
    Australia, historical
12. Cannabis.
    UK, slang, uncountable
13. Heroin.
    slang, uncountable
14. An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
    Australia, New-Zealand
15. A blowjob; fellatio.
    countable, informal, uncountable, vulgar
16. Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”).
17. 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.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“We’re having a bit of a blow this afternoon.”

“Now they were faced with the problem of a northerly blow, which could soon send a heavy swell clean into the bay.”

“The players were able to get a blow during the last timeout.”

“Hi there, you're a pretty cute chick, want to snort some blow?”

“Hey man, you wanna cop some blow? / Sure, what you got, dust, flakes or rocks?”

“Jesus Christ, George, I don't see you for two years and you show up on my doorstep with 110 pounds of blow.”

“I ran out of blow a long time ago / I can't smoke a J or my guts fly away”

“His girlfriend gave him a blow.”

“The sounding of the alarm was the signal to begin the emergency blow maneuver. At this time, witnesses reported, the guest at the high-pressure air controls operated the levers under close supervision of Navy personnel, and the submarine started to rise at a sharp angle.”

“A fabricator is used to direct a sharp blow to the surface of the stone.”

“During an exchange to end round 13, Duran landed a blow to the midsection.”

“There he found that […] Hanno's camp was crowded with cattle and carriages, and a mixed multitude of unarmed men, and even of women and children; and that a vigorous blow might win it with all its spoil: the indefatigable general was absent, scouring the country for additional supplies of corn.”

“A further blow to the group came in 1917 when Thomson died while canoeing in Algonquin Park.”

“a most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows”

“Norwich returned to second in the Championship with victory over Nottingham Forest, whose promotion hopes were dealt another blow.”

“Click goes his shears; click, click, click. / Wide are the blows, and his hand is moving quick, / The ringer looks round, for he lost it by a blow, / And he curses that old shearer with the bare belled ewe.”

“"Blows" of quartz, crop out above the layers of slate, granite, and sandstone formation.”

“The blow is important because it transitions the reader and eventually the audience from one scene to another.”

“roses in full blow”

“[F]lowers that in perennial blow / Round the moist marge of Persian fountains cling; […]”

“[H]e believed he could shew me such a blow of tulips as was not to be matched in the whole country.”

“Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards; / Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave, / Night and day journeys a coffin.”

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