English Explanatory Dictionary

blue streak

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A great deal of fast talking, cursing, lying, or similar.
  2. A trace left by something that is too quick to see.

Word forms

blue streak

Etymology

From the afterimage of a stroke of lightning, which looks like a blue streak across the sky.

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