blagnoun詞源 1/blæɡ/

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  slangAn armed robbery or robbery involving violence; also, theft.

  • 'What's he do, Micky?' / 'Armed blags is what I hear – s'posed to be one or two nice little tucks down to him that he didn't go for. He keeps well active. Someone told me he's putting one together now.[…]'
  • Through Lenny I had met a character whom I shall call Billy. He was part of a blag team famous for a series of large-scale wage snatches.

blagverb詞源 1/blæɡ/

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  slangTo obtain (something) through armed robbery or robbery involving violence, or theft; to rob; to steal.

blagverb詞源 2/blæɡ/

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  informalTo obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.

  • Can I blag a fag?
  • He’s blagged his way into many a party.
• 2

  informalTo obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.

  • The newspaper is accused of blagging details of the prime minister’s flat purchase from his solicitors.
  • I worked for a trace agency. The years became a blur. Your every day is spent ringing people to blag information out of them. You can do this in a nice way, but truth is, you choose the quickest.
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  informalTo obtain (something desired), or avoid (something undesired), through improvisation or luck; to fluke, to get away with.

  • ‘For the first six years I was a total chancer,’ he [Alan McGee] said. ‘I blagged it. All I did was keep choosing the right band and try not to fuck it up too much, which I usually did. […] [N]obody taught me to run a record company and I’ve made millions of mistakes.’
  • Carly (played by Vinette Robinson): Now we’ve got just about enough lamb? / Freeman: No, we haven’t got enough lamb. / Carly: We’ve got eno— – we’ve got enough. / Andy Jones (played by Stephen Graham): All right. I’m sorry, lad. What’s your fucking problem? / Freeman: What’s my problem, Andy? It’s time and time a-fucking-gain. You’re not doing your job. / Carly: Freeman, Freeman. / Andy Jones: I can’t do them now, I didn’t do them last night, did I? I’m sorry, I apologise. I apologise. Have I said I’m sorry? Have I said I’m sorry? / Freeman: We’ve blagged it. It’s fine. We’ve got a menu for tonight.
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  informalTo use guile or persuasion on (someone); also, to deceive or perpetrate a hoax on (someone).

  • He asks me afterwards if I realize what a lot of 'blagging' (bull) there is in his job. I reply, 'You blagging him or him blagging you?' / 'Oh no, blagging him,' he says. 'When you give him a ticket or something, you have to be nice to them.'
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  informalTo meet and seduce (someone) for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation; to pick up.

  • Derek Jarman had also publicly identified himself as HIV-positive, while at the same time celebrating what the mainstream press saw and criticized as a promiscuous irresponsibility in blagging trade on Hampstead Heath, an infamous (and very popular) gay cruising ground in North London.
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  informalTo speak persuasively or with guile to obtain something.

  • Some of my readers will undoubtedly call in question the veracity of what follows, and brand it with the title which is commonly called blagging still. This appellation cannot debilitate its sincerity; […]

blagadj詞源 2/blæɡ/

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  informalNot genuine; fake.

  • You’re wearing a blag designer shirt!

blagnoun詞源 2/blæɡ/

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  informalAn 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.
• 2

  informalAn act of deceiving; a con, a deception, a hoax.

  • Because I used to run cons with him. I came up here as a nun, but that was just a blag to make money out of the miners.
  • Anyone who claims to be operating on a model designed to fulfil the will of Jesus, or Allah, or Krishna, or anyone, who isn't first and foremost dedicated to the union of all humankind and service of the needy is on a massive blag.

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