blunt
/blʌnt/
noun
- 1
A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
- 2
A short needle with a strong point.
- 3
(smoking) A marijuana cigar.
“2005: to make his point, lead rapper B-Real fired up a blunt in front of the cameras and several hundred thousand people and announced, “I'm taking a hit for every one of y'all!” — Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 461)”
- 4
Money
- 5
A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
adjective
- 1
Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
- 2
Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
- 3
Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
“the blunt admission that he had never liked my company”
- 4
Hard to impress or penetrate.
- 5
Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
verb
- 1
To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
- 2
To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
“It blunted my appetite.”
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