Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A scolding; a quarrel.
- n. One of the rooms in a sugar-refinery, usually on the top floor, where the raw sugar is first melted.
Wiktionary
- adj. Inflatable; able to be blown up.
- n. An explosion (physical or emotional).
- n. An enlargement (e.g. of a photo).
Examples
“What about two men who simultaneously penetrate separate orifices of a blow-up doll?”
“John Herbison: What about two men who simultaneously penetrate separate orifices of a blow-up doll?”
“We have several large industrial clients with billion dollar deals in the wings, which will get finalized as long as rates remain intact and barring any unforeseen geopolitical blow-up," he said.”
“His blow-up doll gets a lot og attention, though ..”
“There were Christmas trees and candy canes, blow-up Santas, snow globes, snowmen.”
“Last month, he hung out at an online forum for blow-up doll enthusiasts long enough to discover "iDollator," a person with a fetish for dolls.”
The Wall Street Journal: As Slang Changes More Rapidly, Expert Has to Watch His Language
“About 20 men raced down the half-kilometer river course floating on blow-up sex dolls.”
“If affording a man who was caught in the act of trying to blow-up a plane the constitutional protections afforded American citizens means that he may go free then we really need to re-visit these constitutional protections.”
Ridge: Terror suspect doesn't deserve 'full range' of rights
“Almost everyone kept a safe distance anyway, after her blow-up earlier at the staff meeting.”
“For the old lady, she must blow-up a crowded coffee shop on a Sunday; the loser must "protect" a little girl from an unknown danger; the father of a terminally ill boy must kill another child to save his own; and the nun, disturbingly, must get pregnant.”
The Huffington Post: Bill Robinson: New Media: Take A Seat In the Booth at the End
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blow-up’.
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EN - Old Western Slang
a hog-killin' time, a lick and a promise, according to Hoyle, ace-high, all down but nine, arbuckle's, at sea, back down, balled up, bang-up, bazoo, bear sign and 212 more...
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blow phrases
how blow is used
blow in, to, blow glass, blow-valve, blow valve, blow-well, blow-torch, blow-tube, blow-point, blow-room, blow-post, blow-through, blow-over and 63 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
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