A strong wind. / (informal) A chance to catch one's breath. / (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine. / (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis. / (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.

(now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.

The act of striking or hitting. / A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault. / A damaging occurrence.

To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.

A mass or display of flowers; a yield. / A display of anything brilliant or bright. / A bloom, state of flowering.

A blow struck to the side or from the side, as in swordplay; a secondary or incidental strike of any sort. / (slang) An illegitimate child; a child of an unknown or unmarried father.

(automotive) In an internal combustion engine, any burnt or unburnt matter escaping from the cylinder, past the (worn) rings on the piston, and into the crankcase.

(Ireland, Australia) Someone who has only recently arrived in an area or community; a newcomer.

(dialect) simple past tense and past participle of blow

plural of by-blow