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bling-bling
noun- wealth, especially as manifested in expensive, if tasteless, jewellery US
Coined by hip-hop rapper B.G. and appearing in his 1999 “Chopper City in the Ghetto”. - Like B.G.’s hit song says, it’s about “Bling! Bling!” Li’l Wayne calls it “braggin’ rights.” A teenager whose gold teeth say “CASH MONEY,” Wayne says he lives with Baby in English Turn just so he can say he does. — Atlanta Journal and Constitution, p. 1C, 28 November 1999
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 1, Fall 2000
- She [Aaliyah] didn’t traffic in Glocks, didn’t indulge in big pimpin’, didn’t court the bling-bling life. — Washington Post, p. C1, 28 August 2001
- [G]angster UK hard men, bling-bling bitch ho’ slappin’ bad boys So Solid Crew. — Hip-Hop Connection, p. 9, July 2002
- [T]he modern-day “bling-bling” era of hip-hop has emerged. Gold has taken a back seat to the new metal of choice–platinum. — The Source, p. 64, March 2002
- “Bling bling” is vulgarity beyong parody. — The Guardian, p. 23, 21 May 2003
- ostentation UK
A generalised sense that derives from the previous sense. - Now there is even anti-bling bling. Before his London tour in February, the rapper Nas announced that his show would be “stripped of over-the-top bling bling trappings”. — The Guardian, p. 23, 21 May 2003
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