blank v.2
1. to ignore.
![]() | You Flash Bastard 23: Had Rosi been available, it was unlikely he would have blanked Paul Rosi, unless he had an ulterior motive for so doing. | |
![]() | Gate Fever 16: To blank [...] to ignore. | |
![]() | Some Lives! 3: So I just blanks him and he starts giving me licks. | |
![]() | Stump 74: Why the friggin deadhead, lar? I mean, you’ve been blankin me since. | |
![]() | Dirty South 32: White trash girls never blanked you on the road. | |
![]() | Killing Time in Las Vegas [ebook] He blanked me big time as he popped an iPad on the desk. | ‘Killing Time in Las Vegas’ in
2. to wipe out, to reject.
![]() | Happy Like Murderers 57: She blanked this for many years. Her memories were revived years later. | |
![]() | Hooky Gear 300: I try an blank it. |
3. to overlook.
![]() | Rivethead (1992) 69: I totally blanked on the biggest, baddest, meanest minus of them all: the unemployment line. |
4. to absent oneself temporarily from consciousness, to ‘space out’.
![]() | Swimming Pool Library 240: I was trying to decide whether or not he was looking at me, whether this lull was [...] one of Charles's unsignalled abstentions, a mental treading water, 'blanking' as he called it. |
In phrases
1. to render unconscious.
![]() | Long Good-Bye 207: We’ve been through this before – that night when the gun went off. I suppose the seconal blanked you out too. You sounded sober enough. But now you pretend not to remember. |
2. to become (temporarily) unconscious and/or uncomprehending.
![]() | Wayward Legionnaire 114: My mind had blanked out completely [...] I was no longer aware that I was in the Legion, or even in Algeria. [...] I had become delirious . | |
![]() | Plainclothes Naked (2002) 19: ‘We gotta split,’ Tony announced, as if he hadn’t just blanked out. |
(US black) to trick, to murder.
![]() | Juba to Jive 41: Blanked up [...] (1980s–1990s) to be tricked or even murdered. |