blunt

/blʌnt/

noun

  1. 1

    A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.

  2. 2

    A short needle with a strong point.

  3. 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. 4

    Money

  5. 5

    A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.

adjective

  1. 1

    Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.

  2. 2

    Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.

  3. 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. 4

    Hard to impress or penetrate.

  5. 5

    Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.

verb

  1. 1

    To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.

  2. 2

    To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of

    It blunted my appetite.

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