blow one's wad

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blow one's wad

verb blows one's wad · blowing one's wad · blew one's wad · blown one's wad

  1. idiomatic To spend all of one's money. When a man "blows his wad," at least two different things could have occurred: he either spent or lost all his money in a wager (his wad), or he spent or ejaculated his sperm (his wad). Thorne goes on to suggest that since at least the 1950s "blow," in this context, is a euphemism for "ejaculate."

    Similar: shoot one's wad

  2. idiomatic To expend all of one's resources or efforts; to express all the arguments or ideas which one has.

    Similar: shoot one's bolt, shoot one's wad

  3. idiomatic, vulgar To ejaculate, to cum. When a man "blows his wad," at least two different things could have occurred: he either spent or lost all his money in a wager (his wad), or he spent or ejaculated his sperm (his wad). Thorne goes on to suggest that since at least the 1950s "blow," in this context, is a euphemism for "ejaculate."

    Similar: shoot one's wad

Similar: shoot one's load, ejaculate

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@misc{blow_one_s_wad_2026,
  title = {blow one's wad},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/blow%20one's%20wad},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}