Sekirov Dictionary

blag

/blæɡ/

verb 7
noun 3
adjective 1
forms 5

verb7

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(UK, informal) To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
- Can I blag a fag?
- He’s blagged his way into many a party.
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(UK, informal) 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.
(UK, informal) To speak persuasively or with guile to obtain something.
(UK, informal) To use guile or persuasion on (someone); also, to deceive or perpetrate a hoax on (someone).
(UK, informal) To obtain (something desired), or avoid (something undesired), through improvisation or luck; to fluke, to get away with.
(UK, slang) To obtain (something) through armed robbery or robbery involving violence, or theft; to rob; to steal.
(UK, informal) To meet and seduce (someone) for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation; to pick up.

noun3

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(UK, informal) 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.
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(UK, informal) An 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. — 2013
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(UK, slang) An armed robbery or robbery involving violence; also, theft.
- 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. — 1997

adjective1

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(UK, informal) Not genuine; fake.
- You’re wearing a blag designer shirt!

forms

blagged · blagging · blags · more blag · most blag

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