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blivet

blivet noun: anything overfull.

Noun

blivet (plural blivets)

  1. Anything overfull.
  2. An item of unknown purpose, often unnecessary or useless or annoying.
  3. (slang) A program that has messy source code.
  4. An electronic signal that is normally high or on, but goes low for a very short period and then returns to high. A low going spike.
  5. A hammer used by geologists to chop rock samples from boulders for examination.
  6. (welding) A hammer used by electric welders to knock slag off of the welded joint, sometimes having a spring handle to lessen shock to the hands.
  7. (air conditioning) A container/tank for refrigerant gas.
  8. A portable, collapsible container for liquid fuel.
  9. Synonym of impossible trident.
    • Contemporary U.S. fascism is powered by our current president Trump's tongue that works as a blivet, a poiuyt, a devil's tuning fork.2019, Peter McLaren, Breaking Free: The Life and Times of Peter McLaren

Synonyms of blivet

Forms of blivet

pluralblivets

Origin of blivet

Unknown; seems to have been coined by American soldiers in World War Two.

Questions about blivet

What does blivet mean?
Blivet means anything overfull.
What part of speech is blivet?
Blivet is a noun.
What is the plural of blivet?
The plural of blivet is blivets.

Words near blivet in the dictionary

  1. blitzweed
  2. blive
  3. bliven
  4. Blivens
  5. blives
  6. blivet
  7. blivets
  8. bliving
  9. blivit
  10. blivits
  11. blix

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