Glasgow Patter: Celtic 1 - Rangers 1 ...
blooter One of the many terms that have come from football into general use. To blooter the ball in a game is to kick it powerfully but without much control: "How could ye no have squared it tae me instead of blooterin it inty the crowd?" The verb can also mean to do something in a quick and careless way: "There's no way that hoose could be painted right in wan day; they must've blootered it." Similarly, if a person very quickly spends a sum of money he may be said to have "blootered the whole lot". A blooter is a powerful but unskilful kick of a ball: "Will Scottish defenders never tire of the big blooter up the park?" It also means a quickly done, sloppy job: "Look at the runs in this paintwork; this's been a blooter of a job." Someone who is very drunk may be described as being blootered. © Michael Munro	Football plays a big part in Glasgow life. Apart from Scotland-England games against the old enemy, Celtic-Rangers games are the major feature. This is the "Old Firm", where rivalry follows denominational lines - with a mainly catholic following for green-and-white Celtic, protestant for red-and-blue Rangers. Celtic was the first British team to win the European cup, a feat achieved in Lisbon in 1967 with the "Lisbon Lions".

Glasgow Patter: Celtic 1 - Rangers 1 ...

blooter: One of the many terms that have come from football into general use. To blooter the ball in a game is to kick it powerfully but without much control: "How could ye no have squared it tae me instead of blooterin it inty the crowd?" The verb can also mean to do something in a quick and careless way: "There's no way that hoose could be painted right in wan day; they must've blootered it." Similarly, if a person very quickly spends a sum of money he may be said to have "blootered the whole lot".
A blooter is a powerful but unskilful kick of a ball: "Will Scottish defenders never tire of the big blooter up the park?" It also means a quickly done, sloppy job: "Look at the runs in this paintwork; this's been a blooter of a job."
Someone who is very drunk may be described as being blootered.

Football plays a big part in Glasgow life. Apart from Scotland-England games against the old enemy, Celtic-Rangers games are the major feature. This is the "Old Firm", where rivalry follows denominational lines - with a mainly catholic following for green-and-white Celtic, protestant for red-and-blue Rangers. Celtic was the first British team to win the European cup, a feat achieved in Lisbon in 1967 with the "Lisbon Lions".

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