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

Recent Examples on the Web 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 Instead of appearing on a balcony, the royals watched from outside the entrance on the ground as the planes soared overhead and created red, white and blue streaks. Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023 See all Example Sentences for blue streak 

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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 26 Jul. 2024.

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