Meanings
nounleaf blower (plural leaf blowers)
plural leaf blowers · alternative leaf-blower · alternative leafblower
- A motorized garden tool that propels air out of a nozzle to move leaves and other debris.
[…] the leaf blower? Like the Davy Crockett, it is something that should have never been invented. To subjectively paraphrase Shakespeare, a noisy, consumer-grade leaf blower is a device used “by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and that does almost nothing.”
2016, William Gurstelle, Ready the Cannons!: Build Wiffle Ball Launchers, Beverage Bottle Bazookas, Hydro Swivel Guns, and Other Artisanal Artillery, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 吹葉機 /吹叶机
- 吹葉機 /吹叶机 (chuīyèjī)motorized garden tool
Finnish lehtipuhallin
- lehtipuhallinmotorized garden tool
German Laubbläser
- Laubbläsermotorized garden tool
Polish dmuchawa do liści
- dmuchawa do liścimotorized garden tool
Russian воздуходу́вка
- воздуходу́вка (vozduxodúvka)motorized garden tool
Spanish soplador de hojas, soplahojas
- soplador de hojasmotorized garden tool
- soplahojasmotorized garden tool
- sopleteahojasmotorized garden tool
Swedish lövblås, lövblåsare
- lövblåsmotorized garden tool
- lövblåsaremotorized garden tool
Turkish yaprak üfleme makinesi
- yaprak üfleme makinesimotorized garden tool
Cite this entry
APA
leaf blower. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leaf%20blower
MLA
“leaf blower.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leaf%20blower. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “leaf blower,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leaf%20blower.
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