fire/shoot blanks (redirected from shoot blanks)

fire/shoot blanks (humorous)

if a man is firing blanks, there is no sperm (= the cells which combine with the female's egg to start life) in his semen (= the liquid produced in the male sexual organs). They had a series of fertility tests done and found out that basically Tony was firing blanks. (usually in continuous tenses)

See also: blank, fire, shoot