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blow-by

[bloh-bahy]
–noun, plural -bies. Automotive.
1. leakage of the air-fuel mixture or of combustion gases between a piston and the cylinder wall into the crankcase of an automobile.
2. a device, fitted to a crankcase, for conducting such gases back to the cylinders for combustion.
Also, blowby.


Origin:
1930–35; n. use of v. phrase blow by
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