blag

/ blæɡ /

noun

1. a robbery, esp with violence

verb

1. to obtain by wheedling or cadging

   she blagged free tickets from her mate

2. to snatch (wages, someone's handbag, etc); steal

3. to rob (esp a bank or post office)

Other Word Forms

• blagger noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of blag¹

C19: of unknown origin

Example Sentences

Another says Reeves "is normally the cleverest person in the room", and that she does not blag.

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Prince Harry says journalists would blag information about his former girlfriend Chelsy Davy's flights to the UK to see him.

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Police officers arrived at the address where O'Donnell answered the door but tried to "blag his way out of the situation" and redirected police to another address, delaying the medical attention his victim urgently needed.

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This was strictly a media event, but that did not deter a few Alvarez fans from, unsuccessfully, attempting to blag and bypass security in the chance of catching a glimpse of their hero.

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"I had to blag it a bit," she says.

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