blow
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Is blow a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To produce an air current.Examples: "Lear. Blow windes, & crack your cheeks; Rage, blow / You Cataracts, and Hyrricano's ſpout,"; "Tend to th' Maſters whiſtle: Blow till thou burſt thy winde, if roome enough."; "Hark how it rains and blows!"intransitive
2. (transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.Examples: "Blow the dust off that book and open it up."; "To-night the winds begin to rise And roar from yonder dropping day: The last red leaf is whirl’d away, The rooks are blown about the skies; […]"transitive
3. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.Examples: "The leaves blow through the streets in the fall."intransitive
4. (transitive, figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.Examples: ""This is an unexpected pleasure!" exclaimed he. "What good fortune blows Lady Marchmont hither?""figurativelytransitive
5. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing.Examples: "to blow bubbles"; "to blow glass"; "Joe puffed on his pipe and blew a couple of smoke rings."transitive
6. (transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.Examples: "to blow the fire"transitive
noun (English)
1. (informal) A chance to catch one's breath.Examples: "The players were able to get a blow during the last timeout."countableinformaluncountable
2. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.Examples: "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."Synonyms: benzoylmethylecgonine, blow, Bolivian marching powder, booger sugar, boots, California corn flakes, charlie, chingUSslanguncountable
3. (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.Synonyms: bhang, benj, boo, broccoli, bud, buddha, cannabis, cheebaUKslanguncountable
4. (uncountable, Chicago dialectal, slang) Heroin.Synonyms: Big H, boy, brown sugar, brown, bujj, diacetylmorphine, diamorphine, dog foodslanguncountable
5. (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.Examples: "His girlfriend gave him a blow."Synonyms: brain, dome, head, mouth musiccountableinformaluncountablevulgar
6. (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.Examples: "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."countableuncountable
adj (English)
1. (chiefly dialectal Northern England or puristic, otherwise obsolete) Blue.
noun (English)
1. (Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.Examples: "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."Australiahistorical
2. (Australia, New Zealand) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.Examples: ""Blows" of quartz, crop out above the layers of slate, granite, and sandstone formation."AustraliaNew-Zealand
3. (television) Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”).Examples: "The blow is important because it transitions the reader and eventually the audience from one scene to another."Synonyms: button
noun (English)
1. (figurative) A display of anything bright or brilliant.figuratively
Definition source: Wiktionary