blow out v.2
1. (also blow it) vi. to eat and/or drink to excess; occas. as blow oneself out; thus blown out.
Hereford Jrnl 3 Oct. 4/3: A Knight of the Rainbow [...] always in training at his master’s plentiful board, and being well blowed out, and having little work to do [etc]. | ||
Ingoldsby Legends (1842) 193: In the dog-days, don’t be so absurd / As to blow yourselves out with Green-gages! | ‘The Babes in the Wood’ in||
Bulletin (Sydney) 6 Jan. 12/2: I saw these six afterwards looking as if they had been blowing themselves out with tea and A.J.C. ‘cyke,’ very subdued and disconsolate. | ||
Skitologues 13: So get blown out without a doubt, / On boiled beef and carrots. | ||
A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 98: Several of us went on a binge tonight [...] I really blew it. | 12 Feb. in
2. vtr., to treat, to feed a third party.
Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 17: [H]e has [...] blowed out his buffer well with the last mag left in his clie. | ||
Satirist (London) 8 Jan. 14/1: [W]henever they’d drop in at his lush room in the Adelphi, he ’d blow out their skins with half-and-half, and afterwards rub ’em down with a quattern of Hodge’s. | ||
‘Lord Bateman’s Long Jock’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 21: She took him down unto the cellar, / Where she blow’d him out with wine. | ||
Coal Hole Companion in (1979) 92: The pawnbroker is sure to win / The blowens he blows out with gin. |
In phrases
(US campus) to have a spree.
N.-Y. Eve. Post 8 Jan. 2/4–5: Says I, Tom, says I, by the Lord Harry its only 2 o’clock, and we ha’nt had our spree half out yet. Less blow it out again. ‘Agreed by jingo,’ says he, — and so we started off. | ||
Campus Sl. Nov. 1: blow it out – have a wild time partying, drinking, etc. | ||
Campus Sl. Fall 2: blow it out – to have a great time; to get drunk. |