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blow-by-blow

blow-by-blow adjective: detailing every action or occurrence completely.

Adjective

blow-by-blow (not comparable)

  1. Detailing every action or occurrence completely.
    • He gave a blow-by-blow account of the entire trip.
    • In a lapidary style, Qiu Dongping clearly and forcefully describes battlefield actions with simple sentences, giving a blow-by-blow account of successive events with neither understatement nor exaggeration.2000, Yunzhong Shu, chapter 2, in Buglers on the Home Front: The Wartime Practice of the Qiyue School, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 58

Noun

blow-by-blow (plural blow-by-blows)

  1. An account, description, or commentary including every detail of the action or event.
    • The media published a blow-by-blow of the trial as it happened.

Forms of blow-by-blow

pluralblow-by-blows

Origin of blow-by-blow

Probably suggesting a detailed description of a fight or boxing match, where blow means a hit or a landed punch.

Questions about blow-by-blow

What does blow-by-blow mean?
Blow-by-blow means detailing every action or occurrence completely.
What part of speech is blow-by-blow?
Blow-by-blow can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near blow-by-blow in the dictionary

  1. blow-back
  2. blow-backs
  3. blow-buddies
  4. blow-buddy
  5. blow-by
  6. blow-by-blow
  7. blow-by-blows
  8. blow-bys
  9. blow-dried
  10. blow-drier
  11. blow-driers

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