blag


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
blag /blaɡ/ Brit. informal
noun
  • 1 a violent robbery or raid.
  • 2 an act of using clever talk or lying to obtain something.
verb (blags, blagging, blagged)
  • 1 steal in a violent robbery or raid.
  • 2 obtain by clever talk or lying.
– derivatives
blagger noun.
– origin C19: perh. from Fr. blaguer ‘tell lies’.
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