Definitions
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- verb UK, informal, transitive To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
- verb UK, informal More specifically, to obtain confidential information by impersonation or other deception.
- verb UK, informal, transitive To
beg , tocadge . - verb UK, informal, transitive To
steal . - verb Polari To
pick up someone. - verb UK, informal, 1960s To persuade.
- verb UK, informal, 1940s To
deceive , to perpetrate ahoax on. - noun UK, informal A means of obtaining something by trick or deception.
- noun An armed robbery.
- adjective UK, informal
Fake , notgenuine .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I’ve found that, generally speaking, the hardest posts to do are the ones in the middle: posting a YouTube video or quoting a nice paragraph from somebody else’s blag is easy, and writing a technical post full of equations isn’t so difficult, but producing an intelligent, informative, non-deceptive popularization of science is quite the trick! skullsinthestars Says:
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The ICO also showed me handbooks written by private investigators explaining how to "blag" information for their debt collection agency clients.
The readers' editor on… the Observer and the private investigator 2011
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Supposing Blair is correct, and parents do espy special, precious things that childless adults never can, it would still be reassuring to know that these are not outweighed by the associated burdens of exhaustion, continual interruption and prime ministerial anxiety about how to blag a first-class education without going private.
Surely Dave and Nick have got better things to do? | Catherine Bennett 2011
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There were ticketless Republicans there trying to blag their way in.
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I can [sometimes] blag my way into [nearly] anything.
100-odd not-so-odd things I LOVE about myself « Digital immigrant 2010
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Normally I go the whole hog and exhibit as a small press publisher, but this year it looks like I missed the booking window, so I thought, why not see if I can blag my way in as a guest for once?
Archive 2009-01-01 Roger Langridge 2009
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Kwementyaye – who'd returned home from a night out only to discover that he had run out of cigarettes – visited the Todd to see if he could blag one from the campers.
Australia's dark heart Will Storr 2010
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I wish I had 3D for that ... do you reckon I can blag it off Sky?
Digital economy or bust: the story of a new media startup – part 23 2011
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On his MySpace blag - he said it was bound to happen.
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Normally I go the whole hog and exhibit as a small press publisher, but this year it looks like I missed the booking window, so I thought, why not see if I can blag my way in as a guest for once?
Bristol and Death Roger Langridge 2009
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