Usually means: Fire gun without real bullets.
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▸ verb:  (colloquial, of a male) To be sterile.

Similar:
unsex, blank, emasculate, sterilize, blue-ball, Blanken, sterilise, glib, blank out, neuter, more...

Opposite:
fertile, productive, fruitful, potent, fecund

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Similar:
unsex, blank, emasculate, sterilize, blue-ball, Blanken, sterilise, glib, blank out, neuter, more...

Opposite:
fertile, productive, fruitful, potent, fecund



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