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blew smoke

blew smoke is the simple past of blow smoke.

Meaning of blow smoke

Verb

blow smoke (third-person singular simple present blows smoke, present participle blowing smoke, simple past blew smoke, past participle blown smoke)

  1. To speak with a lack of credibility, sense, purpose, or truth; to speak nonsense.
    • Are these "statistics" they cite verifiable, or are they just blowing smoke, trying to scare people?

Questions about blew smoke

What is blew smoke the simple past of?
Blew smoke is the simple past of blow smoke.

Words near blew smoke in the dictionary

  1. blew out of proportions
  2. blew out of the water
  3. blew out one's bags
  4. blew over
  5. blew past
  6. blew smoke
  7. blew someone's back out
  8. blew someone's brains out
  9. blew someone's cover
  10. blew someone's mind
  11. blew someone's skirt up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blew smoke (page history and authors); blow smoke (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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