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blue streak

blue streak noun: a great deal of fast talking, cursing, lying, or similar.

Noun

blue streak

  1. (informal) A great deal of fast talking, cursing, lying, or similar.
    • to talk a blue streak
    • interspersing his vehement comments with a ‘blue streak’ of oaths1847, The Knickerbocker, page 178
  2. A trace left by something that is too quick to see.
    • To pass[…] with such rapidity as not even to leave a ‘blue streak’ behind him1830 May 14, Kentuckian, page 2/5
    • An American engineer, who had been in England, described the Express train from Liverpool to London as running a "blue streak," by which he meant going like lightning.1867, James Howard, A Trip to America: Two Lectures, page 35

Examples of blue streak in a sentence

  • He calmly lied to me a blue streak, and he knew that I knew he was lying1895 September, The Century Magazine, page 676:
  • This old maid, she had a parrot that cursed a blue streak and knew more vulgar expressions than Mr.1951, Tennessee Williams, Oscar Saul, A Streetcar Named Desire, spoken by Blanche (Vivien Leigh):
  • If you leave your dog alone in your backyard for hours at a time, he may be barking a blue streak, too.2007, Sue Owens Wright, 150 Activities For Bored Dogs:
  • Now then, watch me leave a blue streak behind!1907, Mark Twain, A Horse's Tale:

Origin of blue streak

From the afterimage of a stroke of lightning, which looks like a blue streak across the sky.

Questions about blue streak

What does blue streak mean?
Blue streak means a great deal of fast talking, cursing, lying, or similar.
How do you use blue streak in a sentence?
He calmly lied to me a blue streak, and he knew that I knew he was lying
What part of speech is blue streak?
Blue streak is a noun.

Words near blue streak in the dictionary

  1. blue starters
  2. blue state
  3. blue states
  4. blue straggler
  5. blue stragglers
  6. blue streak
  7. Blue Sucker
  8. Blue Suckers
  9. blue suit
  10. blue suits
  11. blue supergiant

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