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plural blazers
A semi-formal jacket. examples
A person or thing that blazes (marks or cuts a route). examples
Anything that blazes or glows, as with heat or flame. examples
The dish used when cooking directly over the flame of a chafing-dish lamp, or the coals of a brazier. examples
(slang, US) One who smokes cannabis; a stoner.
(archaic) One who spreads news, or blazes matters abroad. quotations
blazers of crime
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 25
(slang, UK) An older member of a sporting club, often with old-fashioned or conservative views.
A con or swindle. quotations examples
"What'd I tell you?" said Bill. "The old wolverine was tryin' to run a blazer on us. All he needed was to be showed we meant business. And he can't make no trouble for us when he gets out, 'cause our two words are better'n his."
1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate
These folks don't take kindly to no brash stranger comin' in here tryin' to run a blazer on 'em.
2004, Louis L'Amour, Utah Blaine: A Novel
Bad, he doubtless was. But when he tried to run a blazer on this grim little cowman, Slaughter had run him.
2016, Eugene Cunningham, Triggernometry: A Gallery Of Gunfighters