blow-by
or blow·by
leakage of the air-fuel mixture or of combustion gases between a piston and the cylinder wall into the crankcase of an automobile.
a device, fitted to a crankcase, for conducting such gases back to the cylinders for combustion.
Origin of blow-by
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How to use blow-by in a sentence
For those seeking a blow-by-blow account of the conflict, this book will more than satisfy.
In the Vietnam era, the public often participated in such debates, because we received blow-by-blow accounts from the battlefield.
He gives a blow-by-blow account of a mission that ends in tragedy for some of the soldiers but in triumph for Karzai.
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The next half hour covered a blow-by-blow account of Paul Brennan's efforts to have the minor restored to him.
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In fact, I got a blow-by-blow description of your entire escape from them.
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British Dictionary definitions for blow-by
the leakage of gas past the piston of an engine at maximum pressure
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