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blow the gaff en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) To disclose a secret.
    • But, my child, if Geoffrey is to be got out at this immature stage it blows the gaff completely. Half of the crowd will vanish, including all the worst, and we shall have no proof at all of the real depths of the conspiracy. 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
  2. (UK, obsolete, slang) To inform against a person.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
blew the gaff Tense=Past lexicographic
blown the gaff Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
blowing the gaff Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
blows the gaff Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

let the cat out of the bag