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
But they will greet him with one great big, universal, democratic, sheeplike blat of 'O. K., Chief!
From Time Magazine Archive
Suddenly came the frightened blat of Nelly's day-old calf.
From Time Magazine Archive
She makes a slide motion with her arms and blows a fake trombone blat through her lips.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
He pulled over and blatted the siren once as he got out, stretched, kept his eyes on the kid.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2019
Said I: 'They hissed and booed, blatted and squealed like a barnyard filled with frightened cattle, geese and swine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Silk merchants who hissed and booed, blatted and squealed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Perhaps the calf blatted a little as the heat scorched.
From Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White
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
He knew the course, and his engine was tuned to a blatting, bellowing roar of controlled fury.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty-three minutes of tuneless blatting erupted from the trombonist, first of a dozen instrumentalists to play in sequence.
From Time Magazine Archive
But a blatting voice butted in, and it was not royalty.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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