cooky

blow (one's) lunch and lose one's lunch; blow one's cookies; blow one's groceries

Sl. to vomit. I almost lost my lunch, I ran so hard. I wanted to blow my lunch, that's how rotten I felt. He got carsick and blew his cookies all over the front seat.

See also: blow, lunch

blow someone out

Sl. to kill someone, especially with gunshots. (Fixed order.) Lefty set out to blow Max out once and for all. Lefty wanted to blow Max out too.

See also: blow, out

blow something

Sl. to ruin or waste something. I had a chance to do it, but I blew it. He blew the whole five dollars on candy.

See also: blow

blow something out

to extinguish a flame with a puff of breath. I blew the candle out. I blew out the candles one by one.

See also: blow, out

juice and cookies

trivial and uninteresting snacks or refreshments. The party was not much. Nothing but juice and cookies. After juice and cookies, we all went back into the meeting room for another hour of talk, talk, talk.

See also: and, juice

shoot one's cookies and shoot one's breakfast; shoot one's supper

Sl. to empty one's stomach; to vomit. I think I'm gonna shoot my cookies. I shot my supper, and I was glad to get rid of it.

See also: shoot

snap one's cookies

Sl. to vomit; to regurgitate. I think I'm gonna snap my cookies. some jerk snapped his cookies on the sidewalk.

See also: snap

toss one's cookies

Sl. to vomit. Don't run too fast after you eat or you'll toss your cookies. Oh, I feel terrible. I think I'm going to toss my cookies.

See also: toss

tough luck and tough cookies

That is too bad. (Said as a reply to someone relating an unfortunate situation.) Tough luck, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. That's too bad, tough cookies.

See also: luck, tough

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blow out somebody also blow somebody out

to defeat someone completely Sometimes you play really badly and get blown out.

See also: blow, out

blow out something also blow something out

to make something stop working I turned on my new television and blew out the picture tube.

See also: blow, out

tough luck (spoken)

I do not have any sympathy for your problems Anyone who misses three classes will fail, and if you don't like it, tough luck!

Usage notes: sometimes used to say you are sorry that someone is having problems: If a beggar approached us, she would murmur “tough luck” and give him a few coins.

Related vocabulary: tough shit

See also: luck, tough