Definition of "blower" in English

noun

1. A person who blows.

2. (mining) A fissure from which firedamp issues, often in quantity for many years.

3. Any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger.

4. (slang, chiefly British, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, usually preceded by the) Telephone.

   • Get on the blower and call headquarters right away!

5. (dated) A braggart, or loud talker.

6. (nautical) The whale; so called from its habit of spouting up a column of water.

7. A small fish of the Atlantic coast, Sphoeroides maculatus; the puffer.

8. (US, slang) A gun.