Usually means: To expel air through pressure.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. blow: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. blow, blow, blow, blow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blow, blow, blow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. blow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Blow, Blow, blow: Wordnik
  7. blow, blow (it): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Blow, b'low, blow: Wiktionary
  9. blow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. blow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. blow: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. blow: Dictionary.com
  13. blow (n.), blow (v.1), blow (v.2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. blow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. B.L.O.W, B.L.O.W. (song), BLOW, Blow (Beyonce song), Blow (Foetus album), Blow (Ghinzu album), Blow (Kesha song), Blow (Red Lorry Yellow Lorry album), Blow (Straitjacket Fits album), Blow (film), Blow (movie), Blow (song), Blow, The Blow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Blow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. blow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. blow: Rhymezone
  19. blow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. blow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. BLOW: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. blow: Free Dictionary
  23. blow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Blow, blow: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. blow: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. blow: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. Blow: Infoplease Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
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Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. blow: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. blow: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BLOW: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. blow: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Slang (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Blow (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. blow: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  5. Blow: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  6. blow: The Folk File
  7. The Blow, blow, blow (penis snot): Urban Dictionary
  8. Blow: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (intransitive) To produce an air current.
verb:  (transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
verb:  (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
verb:  (transitive) To create or shape by blowing.
verb:  (transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
verb:  (transitive) To clear of contents by forcing air through.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
verb:  (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
verb:  (intransitive) To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
verb:  (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
verb:  (transitive, historical, military, of a person) To blow from a gun.
verb:  (transitive) To cause the sudden destruction of.
verb:  (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
verb:  (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
verb:  (intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be very undesirable.
verb:  (transitive, vulgar) To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
verb:  (transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
verb:  (transitive) To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
verb:  (intransitive) (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
verb:  (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
verb:  (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
verb:  (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
verb:  (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
verb:  (dated) To talk loudly; boast; brag.
verb:  (UK, slang, archaic) To expose, or inform on.
verb:  (slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.
verb:  (Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
verb:  (slang, colloquial) To flatulate or defecate.
noun:  A strong wind.
noun:  (informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
noun:  (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
noun:  (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
noun:  (uncountable, US Chicago dialectal, slang) Heroin.
noun:  (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.
noun:  (nautical) 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.
adjective:  (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
noun:  The act of striking or hitting.
noun:  A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
noun:  A damaging occurrence.
noun:  (Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
noun:  (television) Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”)
verb:  To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
noun:  A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
noun:  A display of anything brilliant or bright.
noun:  A bloom, state of flowering.
noun:  A surname.

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