Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

blow one's wad

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English

Syllables: blow one's wad
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To spend all of one's money.

verb

To expend all of one's resources or efforts; to express all the arguments or ideas which one has.

verb

To ejaculate, to cum.

Example Sentences

"When a man "blows his wad," at least two different things could have occurred: he either spent or lost all his money in a wager (his wad), or he spent or ejaculated his sperm (his wad). Thorne goes on to suggest that since at least the 1950s "blow," in this context, is a euphemism for "ejaculate.""
"There's a cock ring he keeps stretched around a hairbrush; he rolls it off and slides it down into place against the base of his shaft, to help him stay hard without blowing his wad."

Inflected Forms

blows one's wad (present, singular) blowing one's wad (participle, present) blew one's wad (past) blown one's wad (participle, past)

Synonyms

shoot one's wad shoot one's bolt shoot one's load ejaculate

Questions

What does blow one's wad mean?: To spend all of one's money.

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