blow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bləʊ/
ipa: /blɑː/
ipa: /bloʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: blows
Etymology: From Middle English blowen, from Old English blāwan (“to blow, breathe, inflate, sound”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāan, from Proto-Germanic *blēaną (“to blow”) (compare German blähen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, blow up”) (compare Latin flō (“to blow”) and Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”)).
Senses: examples: text: We’re having a bit of a blow this afternoon.
text: Now they were faced with the problem of a northerly blow, which could soon send a heavy swell clean into the bay.
ref: 1956 September, F. F. Nicholls, “Neyland, A Forgotten Harbour”, in Railway Magazine, page 632:
glosses: A strong wind.
examples: text: The players were able to get a blow during the last timeout.
glosses: A chance to catch one's breath.
examples: text: Hi there, you're a pretty cute chick, want to snort some blow?
ref: 1982, Slava Tsukerman, Anne Carlisle, Nina V. Kerova, Liquid Sky:
text: Hey man, you wanna cop some blow? / Sure, what you got, dust, flakes or rocks?
ref: 1983, “White Lines (Don't Do It)”, performed by Grandmaster Melle Mel:
text: Jesus Christ, George, I don't see you for two years and you show up on my doorstep with 110 pounds of blow.
ref: 2001, David McKenna, Blow, spoken by Derek:
text: I ran out of blow a long time ago / I can't smoke a J or my guts fly away
ref: 2023, “Modern Day Ripoff”, in Every Loser, performed by Iggy Pop:
synonyms: word: benzoylmethylecgonine
word: blow
word: Bolivian marching powder
word: booger sugar
word: boots
word: California corn flakes
word: charlie
word: ching
word: coke
word: corinne
word: crystals
word: flake
word: girl
word: hard white
word: marching powder
word: nose candy
word: nose powder
word: party powder
word: powder
word: rock
word: rocks
word: slim
word: sniff
word: snow
word: snuff
word: toot
word: wash
word: white
word: white girl
word: white lady
word: yay
word: yayo
word: yola
glosses: Cocaine.
synonyms: word: bhang
word: benj
word: boo
word: broccoli
word: bud
word: buddha
word: cannabis
word: cheeba
word: choof
word: daccha
word: dank
word: devil's lettuce
word: djamba
word: doja
word: doobage
word: dope
word: endo
word: gage
word: ganja
word: ganj
word: grass
word: green
word: greenery
word: hash
word: hashish
word: hemp
word: herb
word: Mary Jane
word: MJ
word: marihoochie
word: marijuana
word: Mary Joanna
word: method
word: mezz
word: muggle
word: mull
word: pot
word: puff
word: reefer
word: sens
word: sensimillia
word: sensimilla
word: shit
word: sweetleaf
word: tea
word: Texas tea
word: trees
word: twig
word: wacky tobaccy
word: weed
word: yarndie
word: zaza
word: zombie
glosses: Cannabis.
synonyms: word: Big H
word: boy
word: brown sugar
word: brown
word: bujj
word: diacetylmorphine
word: diamorphine
word: dog food
word: dope
word: henry
word: heroin
word: horse
word: H
word: junk
word: muck
word: mud
word: ron
word: scag
word: smack
word: spider
word: sugar
word: whiteboy
word: white lady
word: yam yam
qualifier: Chicago dialectal
glosses: Heroin.
examples: text: His girlfriend gave him a blow.
synonyms: word: brain
word: dome
word: head
word: mouth music
glosses: A blowjob; fellatio.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2005 September 29, National Transportation Safety Board, “Emergency Evolutions”, in Marine Accident Brief: Collision between the U.S. Navy Submarine USS Greeneville and Japanese Motor Vessel Ehime Maru near Oahu, Hawaii, 9 February 2001, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2022, page 24:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: 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.
Derived terms: alcoblow
blort
blowball
blowbuddy
blow-by
blowdart
blowfish
blow football
blowgun
blowhole
blowie
blowlamp
blow mould
blow-organ
blowpipe
blowpoint
blow poke
blowproof
blow snake
blowtorch
blowtube
blow valve
counterblow
flyblow
handblow
mindblow
peachblow
underblow