Meanings
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noun
a powerful fictional hand weapon that fires an energy beam or pulse
The explorer could reach his blaster but refused to shoot the creature.
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2
noun
a device used to set off an explosive charge
The demolition crew connected the charges to an electric blaster.
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3
noun
a worker whose job is to break rock or structures with explosives
The quarry employed an experienced blaster to prepare each charge.
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Etymology
Formed from blast plus the agent or instrument suffix -er. Blast comes from Old English blaest, 'a blowing or gust.' The word can name a person or device that blasts; twentieth-century science fiction extended it to imagined beam and energy weapons.