A person who blows.
A person who blows.
Get on the blower and call headquarters right away!
“Today a yard worker came to my porch while I was watering plants and asked for use the leaf blower. I went inside and shut the door so he could work. When he was done, he gave me a thumbs up, and I smiled and nodded while returning the gesture.”
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The state of being perpetually on the phone — constantly calling, texting, or managing conversations across multiple contacts simultaneously. Someone in blower mode has their device glued to their hand, working the phones like a street fixer or an over-involved group-chat admin. It can be admiring (you're handling business) or exasperated (you never stop calling). Heavy in UK slang circles, especially grime and drill adjacent communities where the phone is command central.
Describes a person whose personality and habits scream 'always on the phone' — someone who processes everything through calls and texts, can't sit with silence, and treats their device like a life-support system. Blower-coded people will ring you three times before considering a text, forward your number without asking, and narrate events in real time to someone who isn't there. A lovable but slightly exhausting trait that anyone who grew up pre-smartphone will recognise in certain aunties, fixers, and social butterflies.
(Canada, US, derogatory) A person who talks too much or too loudly, especially in a boastful or self-important manner.
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“Fuck that prick then. Mumford & Sons will be on the blower.”
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(mining) A fissure from which firedamp issues, often in quantity for many years.
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“Today in "I'm a Starmer blower, and people who want actual change scare me".”
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“Scooter mounted leaf blower. Like the rocket VESPA but indoor safe.”
Any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger.
Get on the blower and call headquarters right away!
"blower" means any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger. It is one of many casual words teens pick up from friends, social media, music or sport, and on its own it carries no particular warning. If you hear your teen use it, it is fair to ask what they mean by it in their friend group, since meanings drift quickly. Asking out of curiosity rather than alarm tends to keep the conversation open and useful.
"blower" is informal English meaning any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger. It is used widely across English varieties. A more formal or neutral equivalent would be something like "any device that blows" expressed in standard vocabulary. A common mistake is to assume "blower" can replace its standard equivalent in every register; keep it for spoken or casual situations and use the formal form in writing. If you are a B2 or C1 learner, it is useful to recognise this word when you hear or read it, but think carefully about whether the situation really calls for it before using it yourself.
“Using the included batteries, I ran every blower from fully charged to empty on both medium and high power settings, noting total runtime and how quickly power tapered off as the battery drained.”
“03. **[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_blower#cite_ref-3 "Jump up")**["Leaf Blower Regulations"](https://web.archive.org/web/20220218232952/https://dcra.dc.gov/leafblower).”
“If an [internal link](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Blower&namespace=0) incorrectly led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.”
Something that is blown off.