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blank n. Kolpacoff, who is 25 and lives in Elk Grove, is a “blank,” as a tattoo virgin is sometimes called. [ Language English] [full cite] (Oct. 4, 2005)

blank-check company n. One niche in which the company already leads are officially called a Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation (SPAC). In everyday parlance, they’re known as blank-check companies. What are those? Back in ancient times—notably the dot-com era of the 20th century—entrepreneurs came up with a dream and sold it to the eager public through an initial public offering of stock, sometimes before they had profits or even revenue. That’s old school. New school in this, the 21st century, is having an IPO for a SPAC. They have no profits and no revenue. In fact, they don’t even know what they’re going to spend their money on—hence the name “blank check.” [English Business Money & Finance] [full cite] (Nov. 8, 2006)

blanketeer n. She and a group of other volunteers, or “blanketeers” as they like to call themselves, provide handmade blankets to sick and traumatized children in Central Kentucky. The women are members of Lexington’s chapter of Project Linus, a national organization based in Bloomington, Ill., that takes its name from the Peanuts character who takes his blue security blanket wherever he goes. [English] [full cite] (Jul. 29, 2005)

blast n. They claim that if you run a full-message email ad (or “blast” as some refer to it) on a third-party list, and a recipient requests removal, both you and the third-party must remove that person from your respective lists. [English Advertising Technology] [full cite] (Dec. 21, 2004)

blast n. That system called for entering a market slowly, studying all the angles, and then launching a clearly superior product with a huge advertising blast. [English Advertising] [full cite] (Feb. 7, 2006)

blast n. “Voice blast,” or blast voice mail, has become the favored technology among research analysts in the past two years because it allows them to send recorded messages about company earnings or undervalued stocks—simultaneously—to an unlimited number of people. [English Advertising] [full cite] (Feb. 7, 2006)

blast n. The company is paying et al Associates, an e-mail marketing company based in Allen, Texas, $7,500 for a 90-day spam blast that will deliver 10 million e-mails to people who have opted to receive information about health and nutrition products. [English Advertising] [full cite] (Feb. 7, 2006)

blast n. Statistics, such as those from Forrester Research, Jupiter and other firms, show us that traditional “segment, batch and blast” e-mail is not a plausible long-term strategy for building more profitable customer relationships. [English Advertising Jargon] [full cite] (Feb. 7, 2006)

blast n. How do you regulate a medium that is so fluid and so time critical? We cannot have the NASD take four days to approve a blast e-mail to all shareholders if the market expectation is “Yesterday I wanted it. Today is too late!” [English Advertising] [full cite] (Feb. 7, 2006)

blast n. The “blast” services disrupted that process, much like “a whole bunch of people coming up and interrupting a conversation,” he said.…McKinney cited AIMS Computer Systems of Knoxville as a key example of a “blast” setup. The Web site on Monday had posted a note saying more than 200,000 e-mails had been sent to legislators and the state income tax proposal appears dead. [English Advertising Technology] [full cite] (Feb. 7, 2006)

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