Noun

(en noun)

Pompous, officious talk.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster .}}

A gust of wind.

Fitful noise and violence.

Noun

(en noun)

Anything that, or anyone who blasts.

A device to detonate an explosive, often consisting of a box with a handle to be pressed down.

(science fiction) An unspecified powerful hand weapon, usually one that fires energy.

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, year = 1938 , date = April , first = Henry , last = Kuttner , authorlink = Henry Kuttner , magazine = , title = Hollywood on the Moon , volume = 11 , issue = 2 , page = 26 , passage = Blast out the lakes and canals—whittle down the peaks and mounds with atomic blasters —file them into the shape of gigantic buildings. }}

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, year = 1939 , date = June , first = Jack , last = Williamson , authorlink = Jack Williamson , magazine = , title = One Against the Legion , volume = 23 , issue = 4 , page = 138 , passage = One slender hand clung near a singular jewel, like a great white snow crystal, that hung from her throat. And the other, with a practiced and familiar grip, held a barytron blaster' of the newest legion design. An unwilling little glisten had come into the violet eyes. Her blond head flung angrily. She caught her breath, and lifted the barytron ' blaster . Its bright tube pointed straight between his shoulders. He would never even know. }}