Definition of "by-blow" []

• An indirect or chance blow. (noun)
• A child born out of wedlock. (noun)

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• "In the past, every time that there's been attempts to craft this external villain, the people who are here in the United States and were born here, are native here, were raised here, or legally immigrated here, we end up kind of catching the by-blow."
• "A by-blow of MPs having both their mortgages and their food bills paid for by the Taxpayer – in the case of John Prescott having the nightly technicolour yawn subsidised as well – is that they perforce become immune from the reality of the remorseless rise in food prices and interest rates that afflict not just the poor but most hard-working people in the UK."
• "I was beginning to wonder if Custer wasn't perhaps some by-blow of the Flashman family."