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blown someone's trumpet

blown someone's trumpet is the past participle of blow someone's trumpet.

Meaning of blow someone's trumpet

Verb

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

  1. To praise someone.
    • Of course they had heard Lucy speak of me, and it seemed that Dr. Van Helsing, too, has been quite “blowing my trumpet,” as Mr. Morris expressed it.1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula

Questions about blown someone's trumpet

What is blown someone's trumpet the past participle of?
Blown someone's trumpet is the past participle of blow someone's trumpet.

Words near blown someone's trumpet in the dictionary

  1. blown someone's brains out
  2. blown someone's cover
  3. blown someone's mind
  4. blown someone's skirt up
  5. blown someone's socks off
  6. blown someone's trumpet
  7. blown sunshine up someone's ass
  8. blown sunshine up someone's skirt
  9. blown the coals
  10. blown the cobwebs away
  11. blown the doors off

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