Meanings
plural blivets
- Anything overfull.
- An item of unknown purpose, often unnecessary or useless or annoying.
- slangcomputingA program that has messy source code.
- businessAn 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.
- geographyA hammer used by geologists to chop rock samples from boulders for examination.
- weldingA hammer used by electric welders to knock slag off of the welded joint, sometimes having a spring handle to lessen shock to the hands.
- air conditioningA container/tank for refrigerant gas.
- governmentA portable, collapsible container for liquid fuel.
- Synonym of impossible trident.
Contemporary U.S. fascism is powered by our current president Trump's tongue that works as a blivet, a poiuyt, a devil's tuning fork.
2019, Peter McLaren, Breaking Free: The Life and Times of Peter McLarenSynonyms: impossible trident
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of impossible trident.
Origin
Unknown; seems to have been coined by American soldiers in World War Two.
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