blah-blah-blah
Americanadverb
noun
Etymology
Origin of blah-blah-blah
An Americanism first recorded in 1920–25; reduplication of blah
Example Sentences
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What another former Downing Street figure described as the "blanket blah-blah-blah, we can't comment" approach might have had its day.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2025
Have you ever seen me on a stage saying, ‘Under the exceptional leadership of blah-blah-blah, we have blah-blah-blah-blah?’
From Slate • Nov. 9, 2020
“He’ll say blah-blah-blah, I’ll say blah-blah-blah, OK, let’s go with so-and-so.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2017
Let’s dispatch with the gibberish that Smith would be given an extra semester in the name of winning football games and the academy’s mission is to train Naval officers and blah-blah-blah.
From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2016
Saying the usual things about how excited and happy she was to see all the parents in the audience and how she loved seeing this kind of support and blah-blah-blah.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
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