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smoke-blower en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of smoke blower (any sense).
   alt of smoke blower
   • The company may not have produced any futurists, though the rifle range ranked as one for many moons, and the rear sight looks like a post-impression when you look through it without the smoke-blower in operation; but there is a real artist who once adorned the company ranks, Clark Vorhees, who has had some beautiful pictures on exhibition at the Century Club. 1912, “Kessayons: 2nd Company 1st Battalion”, in The Seventh Regiment Gazette, page 225:
   • Controlling what is communicated from your company will help keep pump-and-dumpers and smoke-blowers from getting material for playing the misinterpretation game. 2013, Ralph A. Rieves, John Lefebvre, Investor Relations for the Emerging Company:
   • I have been using a smoke-blower which is held in the mouth, leaving the hands free. 1914 June 15, J.A. Heberle, “Notes From Germany”, in Gleanings in Bee Culture, volume 42, number 12, page 462:
   • For some years he retained Volney T. Hoggatt, an immense man built like a gorilla, as a bodyguard and smoke-blower. 1957, Forbes Parkhill, The Wildest of the West, page 188:
   • The pipe smoker was kept in low key, being in the background, while the smoke-blower, or other half, was given greater contrast. 1937, Minicam - Volume 1, page 15:
   • He also had gloves and a head cover with a screen in it and a smoke-blower in his hand. 2015, Jim Greenlee, Jamie Remembers: Growing up in Eustis:
   • But he's a bullshitter and a smoke-blower, and he's lied to a lot of players and come up short. 1977, Peter Golenbock, Dynasty: The New York Yankees, 1949-1964, page 320:

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