blag.
An armed robbery or robbery involving violence; also, theft.
Meaning & usage
An armed robbery or robbery involving violence; also, theft.
Where this word comes from
The origin of the noun is unknown. The verb is derived from the noun.
To obtain (something) through armed robbery or robbery involving violence, or theft; to rob; to steal.
Where this word comes from
The origin of the noun is unknown. The verb is derived from the noun.
To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
Can I blag a fag?
He’s blagged his way into many a party.
To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion. To obtain (confidential information) by impersonation or other deception; also, to deceive (someone) into disclosing confidential information.
The newspaper is accused of blagging details of the prime minister’s flat purchase from his solicitors.
To obtain (something desired), or avoid (something undesired), through improvisation or luck; to fluke, to get away with.
To use guile or persuasion on (someone); also, to deceive or perpetrate a hoax on (someone).
To meet and seduce (someone) for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation; to pick up.
To speak persuasively or with guile to obtain something.
Where this word comes from
The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly: * from blag (“to rob; to steal”) (see etymology 1); or * borrowed from French blaguer (“to joke (about); to tell a lie”), from blague (“pouch, especially for tobacco; joke (from the notion of something puffed up, and thus fanciful)”) (from Dutch balg (“leather bag”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”)) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs). The adjective and noun are probably derived from the verb.
Not genuine; fake.
You’re wearing a blag designer shirt!
Where this word comes from
The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly: * from blag (“to rob; to steal”) (see etymology 1); or * borrowed from French blaguer (“to joke (about); to tell a lie”), from blague (“pouch, especially for tobacco; joke (from the notion of something puffed up, and thus fanciful)”) (from Dutch balg (“leather bag”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”)) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs). The adjective and noun are probably derived from the verb.
An attempt to obtain, or the means of obtaining, something by guile or persuasion; a trick.
A good blag to get into a nightclub is to walk in carrying a record box.
An act of deceiving; a con, a deception, a hoax.
Where this word comes from
The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly: * from blag (“to rob; to steal”) (see etymology 1); or * borrowed from French blaguer (“to joke (about); to tell a lie”), from blague (“pouch, especially for tobacco; joke (from the notion of something puffed up, and thus fanciful)”) (from Dutch balg (“leather bag”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”)) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs). The adjective and noun are probably derived from the verb.
Deliberate misspelling of blog.
Where this word comes from
Coined by the American author, cartoonist, and engineer Randall Munroe (born 1984) in his webcomic xkcd in 2006: see the quotation.
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