blazes

Expression of frustration, shock, or both.

Adverb

  1. hellishly, extremely
    • It gets blazes hot here in the summer.

Interjection

  1. Expression of frustration, shock, or both.

Noun form of, plural

  1. plural of blaze

Noun euphemistic, plural

  1. hell
    • Where the blazes were you?
    • Yes, we all know that McLuhan was a rock star[…] but what in blazes was he talking about? - 2011 January 6, David Carr, “Marshall McLuhan: Media Savant”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
    • “As a mainlander you’ll be referred to as a fudgie by the islanders.” “What the blazes is a fudgie?” “They call you fudgie, like the rest of the tourists who go there to buy some of the most delicious fudge in the world...

Derived

blue blazes go to blazes hot as blazes

Verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of blaze