Meanings
- pluralplural of blaze
- euphemisticpluralplural onlyhell
Where the blazes were you?
2 more examples
Yes, we all know that McLuhan was a rock star[…] but what in blazes was he talking about?
2011 January 6, David Carr, “Marshall McLuhan: Media Savant”, in The New York Times, →ISSN“As a mainlander you’ll be referred to as a fudgie by the islanders.” “What the blazes is a fudgie?” “They call you fudgie, like the rest of the tourists who go there to buy some of the most delicious fudge in the world from one of the many fudge shops on the island.”
2018, P. A. Gawel, “From the Water, it Looks Like an Island”, in Son of a Son of the Thin Man in Murder Along the Crooked Way, Meadville, Pa.: Christian Faith Publishing, →ISBN
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of blaze
- Expression of frustration, shock, or both.
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