Blow
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English
Pronunciation
- SAMPA: /'blOU/
- IPA: /'blɔʊ/
Intransitive Verb
- To produce an air current
- Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! [King Lear]
- To explode
- Get away from that tank! It's about to blow!
- (slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck)
- This blows!
- To be propelled by an air current.
- The leaves blow through the streets in the fall
- (of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout.
- There's nothing more thrilling to the whale watcher than to see a whale surface and blow.
- Thar she blows! [that is, I see a whale spouting!]
Translations
- Chinese: 吹
- Dutch: blazen
- Esperanto: blovi
- Finnish: tuulla (1), räjähtää (2), puhaltaa (4)
- French: souffler (1), exploser (2)
- German: schlagen
- Indonesian: meniup, meledakkan
- Japanese: 吹く (ふく, fuku), 爆発する (ばくはつする, bakuhatsu-suru)
Transitive Verb
- To propel by an air current.
- Blow the dust off that book and open it up.
- To squander.
- I managed to blow $1000 at blackjack in under an hour.
- (vulgar) Fellate.
- Who did you have to blow to get those backstage passes?
- To inflate
- blow bubbles
Translations
- Finnish: puhaltaa (1,4), tuhlata (2), ottaa suihin (3)
Noun
blow
- The act of striking or hitting
- ...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 mid-section...
- An unfortunate occurrence
- A further blow to the group came in 1917 when Thomson died while canoeing in Algonquin Park.
- (slang) cocaine
- A strong wind.
- We're having a bit of a blow this afternoon.
- (colloquial) A chance to catch ones breath.
- The players were able to get a bit of a blow during the last timeout.
Translations
- Dutch: slag m
- Esperanto: bato, frapo
- Finnish: isku (1), takaisku (2), tuulenpuuska (4)
- French: coup m (1)
- German: Schlag