blazer

Meaning

Noun

• A semi-formal jacket.
• A person or thing that blazes (marks or cuts a route).
• Anything that blazes or glows, as with heat or flame.
• The dish used when cooking directly over the flame of a chafing-dish lamp, or the coals of a brazier.
• One who smokes cannabis; a stoner.
• One who spreads news, or blazes matters abroad.
• An older member of a sporting club, often with old-fashioned or conservative views.
• A con or swindle.

Origin

• From blaze + -er. Originates from the 'blazing' scarlet jackets worn by members of Lady Margaret Boat Club, the rowing club associated with St. John's College, Cambridge. Compare Old English blæsere, blasere.