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
Even as he spoke the Cleveland Symphony rumbled like a drain in difficulty and belched forth a stentorian blat of brass.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their beefed-up blat can splatter normal television and radio reception.
From Time Magazine Archive
Madge, who won’t be upstaged, unpacks her trombone and blows one blat like a big fart, and my hands fly to my ears.
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
The loudspeaker blatted five sets of code numbers, each from a different base across the ocean.
From Time Magazine Archive
Silk merchants who hissed and booed, blatted and squealed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whistles shrieked, bells clanged, diesel engines blatted their air horns like dying cows.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yes, sir, I would resent having my business blatted out before a whole staff of subordinates!
From Alex the Great by Brown, Arthur William
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
Electronic racket raisers, says the colonel, "will project high-intensity, variable-pitch sounds, blatting, shrieking noises, etc., in such volume that they will be almost intolerable to the human ear."
From Time Magazine Archive
With this first real chance to cheer, a horde of the delegates actually staged an honest demonstration, marching, blatting, screaming.
From Time Magazine Archive
And do you remember the deep blatting stroke of the great gong in the Joss House, and how its tone hung in the air so long?
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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