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101blow — See: AT A BLOW, BODY BLOW, COME TO BLOWS, IT S AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NOBODY GOOD, WAY THE WIND BLOWS or HOW THE WIND BLOWS …
102blow up — verb Date: 1536 transitive verb 1. to build up or tout to an unreasonable extent < advertisers blowing up their products > 2. to rend apart, shatter, or destroy by explosion 3. to fill up with a gas (as air) < …
103blow-by — /bloh buy /, n., pl. blow bies. Auto. 1. leakage of the air fuel mixture or of combustion gases between a piston and the cylinder wall into the crankcase of an automobile. 2. a device, fitted to a crankcase, for conducting such gases back to the… …
104blow up — verb a) To explode or be destroyed by explosion. Why do cars in movies always blow up when they fall off a cliff? b) To explode something or somebody or destroy something or injure or kill somebody by explosion. We had to blow up the bridge… …
105Blow Up — A slang term used to describe the complete and abject failure of an individual, corporation, bank, development project, hedge fund, etc. The term is often used when a hedge fund fails, but is not exclusive to hedge funds. Hedge funds frequently… …
106BLOW — Benevolent Loyal Order Of Witsters (Community) 1) To spend money; 2) To get killed by gunshot; 3) Cocaine, because it is blown (blow) or snorted in the nostrils. 1) I blowed all my money on that car; 2) Marvin got blown away in the war; 3) Let s… …
107Blow — I Blow [bləʊ], John, britischer Komponist, getauft Newark (heute County Nottinghamshire) wohl 23. 2. 1649, ✝ London 1. 10. 1708; Lehrer von H. Purcell, wurde 1668 (erneut 1695) Organist der Westminster Abbey, 1699 Komponist der Königlichen… …
108Blow — This unusual surname is a patronymic of Blower, which is of Anglo Saxon origin, and is from an occupational name for someone who operated a bellows, either as a blacksmith s assistant or to provide wind for a church organ, or for someone who blew …
109blow up — phr verb Blow up is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑bomb, ↑mine, ↑row, ↑storm, ↑trouble Blow up is used with these nouns as the object: ↑balloon, ↑flight, ↑photograph …
110Blow — 1. fail in something; ruin; wreck: to blow an exam ; 2. ejaculate; experience orgasm; 3. horseracing, etc. (of odds on a horse offered by bookmakers): to lengthen. 4. (euphemism) damn: Well I ll be blowed ; Blow that! ; 5. cocaine …
