blue streak

noun

1
: something that moves very fast
2
: a constant stream of words
talked a blue streak

Examples of blue streak in a Sentence

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Texas land commissioner offers 1,402 acres to Trump for 'deportation facilities' ABC News' Mireya Villarreal visited Starr County to ask residents what issues and values most influenced them to vote for Republican candidates this year, instead of upholding their century-long blue streak. ABC News, 26 Nov. 2024 Women everywhere have many reasons to curse a blue streak. Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024 Gone are the days when a manager like Billy Martin or Earl Weaver would burst out of the dugout and kick up a cloud of dirt, curse a blue streak and maybe even walk away with a base or chuck one into the outfield over a missed call. Dan Gelston, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023 Above, the top picture (from a later experiment) shows an example of the antiproton (the pale blue streak) annihilating a proton and creating positive and negative particles known as pions (respectively, the red and green lines). Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2010 See all Example Sentences for blue streak 

Word History

First Known Use

1830, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of blue streak was in 1830

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“Blue streak.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blue%20streak. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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