Meaning

9 senses
  1. Anything overfull.

  2. An item of unknown purpose, often unnecessary or useless or annoying.

  3. (slang)A program that has messy source code.

  4. An electronic signal that is normally high or on, but goes low for a very short period and then returns to high. A low going spike.

  5. A hammer used by geologists to chop rock samples from boulders for examination.

  6. A hammer used by electric welders to knock slag off of the welded joint, sometimes having a spring handle to lessen shock to the hands.

  7. A container/tank for refrigerant gas.

  8. A portable, collapsible container for liquid fuel.

  9. Synonym of impossible trident.

Origin

Unknown; seems to have been coined by American soldiers in World War Two.

Unknown; seems to have been coined by American soldiers in World War Two.

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Forms

plural: blivets
Singularblivet
Pluralblivets

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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