The act of striking or hitting.
Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”)
Cocaine.
An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
A damaging occurrence.
Cannabis.
A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
A bloom, state of flowering.
A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
A strong wind.
A blowjob; fellatio.
A display of anything brilliant or bright.
Heroin.
A chance to catch one's breath.
A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
(used to express displeasure or frustration) Damn.
To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
To flatulate or defecate.
To produce an air current.
To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
(of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
To be propelled by an air current.
To sing.
To blow from a gun.
To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
To make a sound as the result of being blown.
To clear of contents by forcing air through.
To cause the sudden destruction of.
To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
To suddenly fail destructively.
To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
To be very undesirable.
To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
To recklessly squander.
To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
Blue.
A blow with the fist.
A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
A coffin.
The rectangle in which the batter stands.
A small rectangular shelter.
The vagina.
A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especiallycommon box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
One of two specific regions in a promoter.
A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
The driver's seat on a horse-drawn coach.
A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
A predicament or trap.
A cell used for solitary confinement.
A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, the drooping (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black, or ironbark box trees.
A prison cell.
A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.
Preceded by the: television.
A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
The penalty area.
Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”)
To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.
To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
To strike with the fists; to punch.
To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.