blow in
English
Verb
blow in (third-person singular simple present blows in, present participle blowing in, simple past blew in, past participle blown in)
- (intransitive, slang) To unexpectedly and casually arrive.
- 2000 February 3, “Big Pink Loser”, in SpongeBob SquarePants, season 2, episode 23a, spoken by Incidental 41 (Dee Bradley Baker):
- Hey pal, you just blow in from Stupid Town?
- (transitive, slang) To waste large amounts of something (typically money); to squander.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To activate a blast furnace by eliminating moisture and then igniting a large amount of fuel.
References
- Jonathon Green (2024) “blow in v.1”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
- Jonathon Green (2024) “blow in v.2”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
- “blow, v.1”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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