blowing one's wad

Verb

blow one's wad (third-person singular simple present blows one's wad, present participle blowing one's wad, simple past blew one's wad, past participle blown one's wad)

1. (idiomatic) To spend all of one's money.
   • When a man "blows his wad," at least two different things could have occurred: he either spent or lost all his money in a wager (his wad), or he spent or ejaculated his sperm (his wad). Thorne goes on to suggest that since at least the 1950s "blow," in this context, is a euphemism for "ejaculate."2001, Peter F. Murphy, Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live By, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 44

   Synonyms:

   shoot one's wad

2. (idiomatic) To expend all of one's resources or efforts; to express all the arguments or ideas which one has.

   Synonyms:

   shoot one's bolt, shoot one's wad

3. (idiomatic, vulgar) To ejaculate, to cum.
   • When a man "blows his wad," at least two different things could have occurred: he either spent or lost all his money in a wager (his wad), or he spent or ejaculated his sperm (his wad). Thorne goes on to suggest that since at least the 1950s "blow," in this context, is a euphemism for "ejaculate."2001, Peter F. Murphy, Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live By, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 44

   Synonyms:

   shoot one's wad