blinder
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Is blinder a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of blinder?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (British, slang) An exceptional performance.Examples: "He played a blinder this afternoon on the cricket ground."; "And we asked the blue winger, who in our game / had played what they call a blinder, to help out"Synonyms: crackerBritishslang
2. (slang) A bout of heavy drinking; a bender.Examples: "If a man goes out on a blinder, he might be charged with being drunk and incapable and therefore have a criminal record, although he is an honourable man."slang
3. (theater) A bright light used to blind the audience temporarily during a scene change.Examples: "When the 'blinders' are switched off, and the audience's eyes given time to re-adjust, the new scene is in place […]"
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To fit (a horse) with blinders.transitive
2. (transitive, figurative, by extension) To obstruct the vision of.Examples: "[…] We climb in hopes / Of such seeing up the leaf-shuttered escarpments, / Blindered by green, under a green-grained sky"; "They think they're being focussed when they're really just blindering their eyes, as a farmer would a plough horse, to ways of getting to their goal faster."broadlyfigurativelytransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary