Talk:blast

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blast

Rfv-sense: "to return extra salvage to another location". It's not from Webster 1913, nor can I find it in other dictionaries. --Hekaheka (talk) 08:02, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 17:55, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

counterblast

What meaning is used in counterblast? --Backinstadiums (talk) 18:05, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

put the blast on someone

Dated slang, encountered in Damon Runyon: "If Mary comes home and finds I am not minding the baby she will put the blast on me plenty" (i.e. scold or chastise me?). But other uses in Google Books suggest that it might mean to inform or "grass" on somebody: "It wasn't anybody but another labor leader that put the blast on me"; "Then she put the blast on me. She testified I was a gangster." Equinox ◑ 04:58, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

Funnily, put someone on blast is like a combination of those.--Simplificationalizer (talk) 06:29, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Extended use of English noun sense 2?

Should a use of blast such as

• 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:

  "Protein Drink". For building a stronger, healthier body. It gives you a blast of nourishment when you are fatigued.

Be classed as a figurative use of 2, or its own sense? Simplificationalizer (talk) 06:27, 5 September 2022 (UTC)