blat
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
verb
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(intr) to cry out or bleat like a sheep
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(tr) to utter indiscreetly in a loud voice
Etymology
Origin of blat
Example Sentences
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The Sounders were jolted back into MLS play with an early ping and blat of the ball off the goal post and cross bar Saturday.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2022
Too, let us not forget the Metropolitans of 1910, whose victory was reported in this very blat on the 30th of June that year under the headline “Opera Ball Team Trounces Boston.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2015
Conscious even then of his big voice, he liked to sneak up behind victims in the school corridors and blat a loud note into their ears.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ear that flinches at the diesel blat of a bus might recoil as much from the clang-rattle-crash of the old trolley.
From Time Magazine Archive
A blat from the horn made Carla jump and turn to the car, now fully stopped just a little ahead of her.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
He pulled over and blatted the siren once as he got out, stretched, kept his eyes on the kid.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2019
A Midwest member got on the wire, blatted the news to all wirephoto points by asking the New York office: "What about pictures on Roosevelt at Casablanca?"
From Time Magazine Archive
The crowd began gathering near the sentry boxes at Blair House at dusk, stood raptly as rush-hour traffic blatted past on Pennsylvania Avenue.
From Time Magazine Archive
Silk merchants who hissed and booed, blatted and squealed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Billy Bumps raised his head, shook his venerable beard, and blatted at the cobbler.
From The Corner House Girls at School by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen
In one early poem, he asked: “What definition of beauty can exclude / The MV Agusta racing 500-3, / From the land of Donatello, with blatting megaphones?”
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2021
Not the 'what I had for brunch' blatting.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2016
With this first real chance to cheer, a horde of the delegates actually staged an honest demonstration, marching, blatting, screaming.
From Time Magazine Archive
No fewer than seven Corvettes were in the 14-car field, six of them new 1963 Sting Rays, their powerful V-8 engines blatting angrily under shark-nosed hoods.
From Time Magazine Archive
They could hear sheep blatting in their pens.
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
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