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blow
verb- to smoke, especially to smoke marijuana US, 1772
Originally “to smoke a pipe or cigar”, now drugs use only. Usage often specifies marijuana thus “blow SHITSTICK- “I just needs some pot to steady my nerves.” “Okay, we’re going to blow two now.” — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 48, 1959
- At times, after we had fixed and blown some pot, with a sleek thrust of my own soul, a thrust of empathy, I used to find myself identifying with him. — Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book, p. 75, 1960
- “Yes, indeed-y!” He grinned at Bernie. “Man blow pot, hey?” — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 20, 1961
- Shorty would take me to groovy, frantic scenes in different chicks’ and cats’ pads, where with the lights and juke down mellow, everybody blew gage and juiced back and jumped. — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 56, 1964
- I played stickball, marbles and Johnny-on-the-Poney, copped girls’ drawers and blew pot. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 13, 1967
- Sho’, I bet he done blow a lot of it too, aint he? — Terry Southern, Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes, 1967
- I could not see how they were more justified in drinking than I was in blowing the gage. — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 4, 1968
- But the trouble began when I ranked my hand / And stopped blowing and started to hit. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 84, 1976
- — Home Office, Glossary of Terms and Slang Common in Penal Establishments, 1978
- Did I ask if they’re tooting cocaine, maybe blowing a little weed? No, I didn’t ask him that either. — Elmore Leonard, Split Images, p. 16, 1981
- to register on a blood alcohol breath testing device US
- Someone at the club that evening had said that anybody coming from Deep Run after a Saturday night party, anybody at all, would blow at least a twenty on the breathalizer. — Elmore Leonard, Switch, p. 1, 1978
- to perform oral sex US, 1930
- I, anticipating even more pleasure, wouldn’t allow her to blow me on the bus[.] — Neal Cassady, The First Third, p. 190, 1947
- One of the boys talked about a girl who was in our mathematics class whom he was going to take out that same night, and who had promised to "blow him." — Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen, Sex Histories of American College Men, p. 55, 1960
- — Donald Webster Cory and John P. LeRoy, The Homosexual and His Society, p. 262, 1963: “A lexicon of homosexual slang”
- Here, man. Blow me here! — John Rechy, Numbers, p. 106, 1967
- [I]t was Crane’s kick to blow those sailors he encountered along the squalid waterfronts of that vivid never-to-be-recaptured pre war world[.] — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, p. 97, 1968
- Larry and Judy were sprawled out on the floor, her big white thighs around his neck, red-lipped black-haired cunt in his mouth, she working his balls and joint while he blew her cunt. — Steve Cannon, Groove, Bang, and Jive Around, p. 87, 1969
- Girls will blow girls, girl will blow boys, boys will blow girls, and boys will blow boys. — Screw, p. 11, 5 January 1970
- Well, that’s the last time I blow him behind your back. — Something About Mary, 1998
- Oh, if you think I’m gonna blow this guy for your sick purposes, you are sadly mistaken. — The Sopranos (Episode 57), 2004
- to masturbate UK
- — Home Office, Glossary of Terms and Slang Common in Penal Establishments, 1978
- to orgasm; to ejaculate AUSTRALIA, 1952
- Jackson’s like ... well, he’s alright in bed. He’s not brilliant. You know, when he blows he pretends he hasn’t. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 22, 1987
- — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 30, 1987
- to open something with explosives US, 1602
- The guys in the mob thought I had turned snowbird when I said we would blow the Kroger safe. — Charles Hamilton, Men of the Underworld, p. 136, 1952
- I prefer blowing one. I blowed quite a few. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 96, 1972
- Convicts, they’d sit around talking about jobs, banks they’d held up, argue about how to blow a safe. — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, pp. 107–108, 1991
- to inform, to betray someone; to tell tales UK, 1575
Originally a conventional usage but progressed in status to slang in the mid-C17. - He blew the local C.I.D. and they, having been alerted about hot [stolen] pussies [furs] of all descriptions, blew the Yard. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 194, 1956
- to boast AUSTRALIA, 1858
- Men strut and blow about themselves all the time without shame. — Miles Franklin, My Career Goes Bung, p. 129, 1946
- to spoil something, to destroy something US, 1899
- I was in it [“Quadrophenia”] just long enough to create a big impression and not long enough to blow it. — Sting (Gordon Sumner), Ask, p. 111, 12 April 1980
- to waste an opportunity, to bungle US, 1907
- I had the market on the good pot uptown sewed up; I didn’t want to blow that. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 161, 1965
- Anyway, she blew her whole weekend looking for someone for me to debate. — James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement, p. 63, 1968
- You know, Billy, we blew it. — Easy Rider, 1969
- You blew it, asshole. — Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 1982
- You’ve blown it, man. You’ve fucked up the Mondays. — Shaun Ryder, Shaun Ryder... in His Own Words, 1994
- to dismiss something as of no importance; to damn something UK, 1835
- Semi-exclamatory; euphemistic.
- MOLLY: Being so hot mightn’t be so good for the tummy, though. ALF: Oh, blow the tummy! — John O’Toole, The Bush and the Tree [Six Granada Plays], p. 29, 1960
- We thought our troubles were behind us and blow us if Windsor Castle doesn’t go and burn down. — Andrew Nickolds, Back to Basics, p. 19, 1994
- to be useless, unpopular, distasteful US
Often in the context of an exclamation such as “That blows!”. - — Anna Scotti and Paul Young, Buzzwords, p. 53, 1997
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 2, Fall 1999
- to spend money, especially in a lavish or wasteful manner UK, 1874
- Just jacked me job in at the time, like, an ’was blowin me last wages. — Niall Griffiths, Kelly + Victor, p. 112, 2002
- to leave US, 1898
- And did she put on an act when I blew town! — It Happened One Night, 1934
- I picked up my battered hat from the desk and stretched. “Got to blow, pal.” — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 24, 1947
- Two bucks would have paid him eight; five, two hundred; and he could have blown town for New Orelans[.] — James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 9, 1947
- “Go ahead,” he said to her. “You can blow.” — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 43, 1947
- As far as Roamer is concerned, they blew with the dough. — Horace McCoy, Kiss Tomorrow Good-bye, p. 264, 1948
- Dave also blew town, for reasons of his own, the new government cracked down on pushers. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal and Carolyn Cassady, p. 386, 9 December 1952
- — J. L. Simmons and Barry Winograd, It’s Happening, p. 168, 1966
- But if I begin to sense that she won’t, because she’s flaky or immature, then I try to get as much money as I can before she blows. — Susan Hall, Gentleman of Leisure, p. 8, 1972
- You’re gonna blow town, but you’ll give him an hour to get here and bring you some money. — Edwin Torres, Q & A, p. 179, 1977
- Lemme get my old lady and blow this joint. — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 354, 1979
- Why don’t you just tell Al to go blow? — Rita Ciresi, Pink Slip, p. 3, 1999
- to play a musical instrument US, 1949
Used with all instruments, not just those requiring wind. - And the gate that rocked at the eighty-eight was blowin’ “How High the Moon.” — William “Lord” Buckley, The Ballad of Dan McGroo, 1960
- You blew piano with Jimmy Vann, huh? — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 108, 1961
- This gave me a stronger urge to blow piano, or blow a box, as they used to say. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 229, 1965
- [O]ne whom he intended looking up at the Capitol Theater where he was blowing with a name band (Glenn Miller’s old band). — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 75, 1980
- used as a mild replacement for “damn” UK, 1781
- I’m blowed if I can remember. — Mary Hooper, (megan)2, p. 106, 1999
- to lengthen the odds offered on a horse or greyhound; to have its odds lengthen AUSTRALIA
- A smart bookmaker from the south took a horse he owned to the Darwin races. It was odds-on with the other bookies in a four-horse race. He decided to lay it. He told the jockey to pull it up, then blew the price to 2–1 against. — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 61, 1975
- He’s just blown from sixes to thirty-threes. — Joe Andersen, Winners Can Laugh, p. 198, 1982
- The other bookies followed his lead and blew the horse in the betting. — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 120, 1988
▶ blow a gasket
to lose your temper completely US, 1949- Watching it one day I saw the normally mild mannered Stuart almost blow a gasket on the air. — Sue Rhodes, Now you’ll think I’m awful, p. 100, 1967
- — Helen Dahlskog (Editor), A Dictionary of Contemporary and Colloquial Usage, p. 8, 1972
▶ blow a hype
to become overexcited US- — Gary Goshgarian (Editor), Exploring Language, p. 302, 1986
▶ blow a load
to ejaculate US- Lois could never have Superman’s baby. Do you think her fallopian tubes could handle his sperm? I guarantee he blows a load like a shotgun. — Mallrats, 1995
▶ blow and go
to vent air before an ascent to the surface while outside a submarine US- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 24, 1991
▶ blow a nut
to ejaculate US- So I blow a nut on her belly, and I get out of there, just as my uncle walks in. — Clerks, 1994
▶ blow a shot
while trying to inject a drug, to miss the vein or otherwise waste the drug US- You keep blowing shots like that and all you’ll have for an arm is abcesses. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 80, 1966
- — David Maurer and Victor Vogel, Narcotics and Narcotic Addiction, p. 390, 1973
- I blew the shot, please come back and give me another bag. — Robert Daley, Prince of the City, p. 21, 1978
▶ blow a tank
to use an explosive charge to open a safe NEW ZEALAND- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 16, 1998
▶ blow a vein
while injecting a drug, to cause a vein to collapse US- — Stewart L. Tubbs and Sylvia Moss, Human Communication, p. 119, 1974
- — Geoffrey Froner, Digging for Diamonds, p. 11, 1989
- — Sally Williams, “Strong” Words, p. 134, 1994
▶ blow beets
to vomit US- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 82, 1968
- — Lewis Poteet, Car and Motorcyle Slang, p. 32, 1992
▶ blow chow
to vomit US- — Michael V. Anderson, The Bad, Rad, Not to Forget Way Cool Beach and Surf Discriptionary, p. 3, 1988
- I gagged a couple of times, but I didn’t blow chow so I was pretty pleased. — Janet Evanovich, Seven Up, p. 201, 2001
▶ blow chunks
to vomit US- I think he’s gonna blow chunks. — Wayne’s World, 1992
- If some disco freak popped out of a trunk and blew chuncks all over the hood of my car, I’d be hopping mad. — Elissa Stein and Kevin Leslie, Chunks, p. 3, 1997
▶ blow dinner
to vomit US- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 82, 1968
▶ blow down someone’s ear
to whisper to someone UK, 1938- — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
▶ blow dust
to shoot a gun US- At one point, a woman overheard one of Mendrell’s friends tell Miguel’s security guard they would “blow dust also, if they have to,” which is street slang for shooting a gun, police said. — Intelligencer Journal (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), p. B1, 10 March 2001
▶ blow grits
to vomit US- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 1, March 1979
▶ blow its poke
(of a fish) to regurgitate its stomach CANADA
The word “poke” is a very old English word for “bag”.- I’ve seen a pollock coming up on the line and there’d be herring and small fish coming out of its mouth. Then it would blow its poke--out would come the poke. — Paper Clip, September 1982
▶ blow lunch
to vomit US- I ate the porridge with onions and salt in it that had a raw egg tinted with blue vegetable coloring on top, blew my lunch, and ate some more. — John Nichols, The Sterile Cuckoo, p. 55, 1965
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 82, 1968
▶ blow pies
to vomit US- — Chris Lewis, The Dictionary of Playground Slang, p. 36, 2003
▶ blow smoke- to brag US
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 259, 1946
- to inhale crack cocaine smoke UK, 1998
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 291, 2003
▶ blow the brains out
to install a sun roof on a car US- — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 35, 1997
▶ blow the cobwebs away
to take some fresh air or exercise and so become revivified UK- Blow the cobwebs away–at the top of a mountain. — The Guardian, 4 January 2003
▶ blow the gaff
to reveal a secret, to inform UK, 1812
▶ blow the lid off
(of a secret plan or a hidden state-of-affairs) to publicly reveal something, especially to expose it in a spectacular way US, 1928
▶ blow the rag
to deploy a reserve parachute when the main parachute fails to deploy US, 1991- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 25, 1971
▶ blow the whistle
to inform against an activity or crime and by so doing cause the subject of such complaint to cease UK, 1934- So I tell him Coyle blew the whistle, he gets mad and tells me what he was doing with Coyle. — George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Doyle, p. 139, 1971
- I’m blowing the whistle on a sicko bastard[.] — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 169, 2001
- An accountant blew the whistle on his managing director who had run up more than £300,000 in unsubstantiated expenses and cash advances. — The Observer, 9 December 2001
▶ blow this cookie stand
to leave US- Let’s blow this cookie stand and get ourselves some breakfast. — John Sayles, Union Dues, p. 373, 1977
▶ blow this disco
to leave US- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 2, Spring 1994
▶ blow this popsicle stand
to leave US- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 6, Fall 1986
▶ blow this taco stand
to leave US- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 1, Fall 1988
▶ blow this trap
to leave US- Why don’t we all blow this trap and have us some laughs? — Morton Cooper, High School Confidential, p. 19, 1958
▶ blow tubes
to smoke marijuana filtered through glass tubes US- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 1, Spring 1991
▶ blow your bags
to boast AUSTRALIA
Possibly from “bagpipes”, in a similar way to the conventional “blow your own trumpet”.- — Tom Ronan, Only a Short Walk, 1961
▶ blow your beans
to ejaculate AUSTRALIA- — Thommo, The Dictionary of Australian Swearing and Sex Sayings, p. 17, 1985
▶ blow your bowel bugle
to fart UK- I’ve blown my bowel bugle, / I’ve been eating peas, / I’ve broken wind[.] — Ivor Biggun, I’ve Parted (Misprint), 1978
▶ blow your cap
to become uncontrollable with anger or excitement UK, 1984
Beatniks’ variation on BLOW YOUR TOPblow your cookies
to ejaculate UK- I got a coachload of Japanese booked in [to a massage parlour] for the weekend. Don’t want ‘em to blow their cookies in the first five minutes and refuse to pay for the whole hour. — Chris Baker and Andrew Day, Lock, Stock... & a Fist Full of Jack and Jills, p. 158, 2000
▶ blow your cool
to lose your mental composure; to become very angry, excited, nervous, etc US, 1961
Since the mid-1950s it has been uncool in youth and counterculture to demonstrate too much emotion.- “We agreed when this shit started, that we’d just have to move it from day to day and not blow our cool and not try to think too far ahead.” — James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk, p. 197, 1974
▶ blow your dust
to ejaculate UK, 1978
▶ blow your jets
to become angry US- — San Francisco Examiner, p. III-2, 22 March 1960
▶ blow your lid
to lose your control emotionally; to become angry US, 1935- We were in my room, Mrs. Winroy had come in a couple of minutes behind him, and she’d blown her lid so high we’d had to come upstairs. — Jim Thompson, Savage Night, p. 24, 1953
▶ blow your lump
to completely lose your emotional composure US- — American Speech, p. 194, October 1951: “A study of reformatory argot”
▶ blow your mind- to have a hallucinogenic experience; to experience a pyschotic break as a result of drug use US, 1965
- What’s it like to blow you mind? [Advertisement for Look Magazine’s "Hippie issue"] — San Francisco Examiner, p. 26, 12 September 1967
- Freak-Out With Peter Fonda as he Blows his mind [Advertisement for film, The Trip] — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 45, 20 September 1967
- Since that time I’ve had a few friends that have blown their minds on acid[.] — Leonard Wolfe (Editor), Voices from the Love Generation, p. 70, 1968
- One pound of LSD could therefore blow the minds of the entire population of New York City. — Timothy Leary, The Politics of Ecstasy, p. 74, 1968
- to amaze someone; to surprise someone; to shock someone US
A figurative sense, extended from the sense as a “hallucinogenic experience”. - “People are already down on us because we’re Hell’s Angels,” Zorro explained. “This is why we like to blow their minds” — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 117, 1966
- — J.L. Simmons and Barry Winograd, It’s Happening, p. 168, 1966
- Because when the Red Sox rallied to beat the Minnesota Twins, 5–3, and clinch at least a tie for the title, Boston fans blew their minds. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 49, 2 october 1967
- Who was the passenger? You guessed it–Peter Fonda. It blew my mind. I couldn’t belive it. — Darryl Ponicsan, The last detail, p. 83, 1970
- Van Dyke blew Brian’s mind and I hadn’t seen anyone else do that. — David Anderle, quoted in Waiting For The Sun, p. 128, 1996
- That she knew my name blew my mind. Some of my best friends didn’t know my name. — Something About Mary, 1998
- to lose your mind, to go crazy, to render unable to comprehend US, 1965
- He blew his mind out in a car. — The Beatles, A Day in the Life, 1967
- There’s a man in the line / And she’s blowing his mind / Thinking that he’s already made her — Arlo Guthrie, Coming into Los Angeles, 1969
- [A] big fat woman threw me out, she blew her mind when she seen that room[.] — Richard Neville [quoting Otis Cook], Play Power, p. 244, 1970
- Guaranteed to blow your mind. — Queen, Killer Queen, 1974
- I’d never seen fresh tomatoes, mushrooms, garlic, olives ... dinner blew my mind! — Sally Cline, Couples, p. 127, 1998
▶ blow your roof
to smoke marijuana US, 1950- — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 56, 1986
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 290, 2003
▶ blow your stack
to lose your temper US, 1947- He waited to see what would happen and when nothing did, said, “you go blowing off your stack like you been doing and you’ll be wearing a D.O.A. tag on your toe.” — Mickey Spillane, Kiss Me Deadly, p. 65, 1952
- I want to say something to you without you blowing your stack. — Raging Bull, 1980
- [T]he day that Nigel looked at the meter and blew his stack. — Mick Farren, Give the Anarchist a Cigarette, p. 160, 2001
▶ blow your top- to explode with anger UK, 1928
- When she blew her top she would draw a pistol. Sometimes she shot some of her workers[.] — The Observer, 8 February 2004
- to lose your mind, to go crazy, to render unable to comprehend US
- In her condition she may blow her top at any time. — Harry J. Anslinger, The Murderers, pp. 185–186, 1961
- to lose emotional control, to induce pyschosis US
- It left me so shaky I almost blew my top and got sicker than a hog with the colic. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 4, 1946
- The weed available in the U.S. is evidently not strong enough to
- blow your top and weed psychosis is rare in the States. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 32, 1953
- to engage in inconsequential conversation US
- — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
▶ blow your wheels
to act without restraint US- You feel like you want to blow your wheels right now? — Rebel Without a Cause, 1955
▶ blow your wig
to lose emotional control; to become angry US, 1952- “I still think the punk’s blowed his wig!” — Donald Wilson, My Six Convicts, p. 47, 1951
- She’ll probably blow her wig when she sees me — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 133, 1952
- The Chick, you may dig, may blow her wig if a lad is sad and when he visits her pad and can’t talk trash and has no cash. — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 5, 1959
▶ blow z’s
to sleep US
Vietnam war usage.- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 25, 1991
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