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blazer

/ˈbleɪzəɹ/ noun B1
  1. A very bright or hot day. (informal)
  2. A dish used to cook directly over the coals of a brazier, or the flame of a chafing dish lamp. (US)
  3. A flat metal piece placed against a fire grate to cause the fire to blaze by creating a draught; a blower.
  4. A tailored jacket, cut like a suit jacket but worn without matching trousers or skirt, and either in a solid colour (especially navy, often with metal, crested, or otherwise contrasting buttons), or in the colours/stripes and often with the badge on the breast pocket of a school, club, or team, whose membership it signals. (figuratively)
  5. Any suit-style jacket for women. (figuratively)
  6. A person or thing that blazes a trail; a pioneer, a trailblazer. (figuratively) · a blazer of paths· a blazer of pathways
  7. Often in the form run a blazer: a con, a swindle. (figuratively, slang)
  8. Someone or something that draws attention. (US, figuratively)

Plural blazers

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Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.