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blag
noun- a robbery, especially an armed robbery; a bank or post-office robbery UK, 1885
Probably an abbreviation of “blackguard”. - First offenders or not, you do a blag like that one and that [Dartmoor]’s where you’ll end up. — Derek Bickerton, Payroll, p. 32, 1959
- — Peter Laurie, Scotland Yard, p. 320, 1970
- “What’s it about, guv?” “A blag!” — The Sweeney, p. 16, 1976
- a piece of persuasive bluff UK
- — Robin Cook, The Crust on its Uppers, 1962
- Blagging a year abroad when you’re an English student is quite a result [...] What a blag, as they say in Austria. — The Guardian, 4 April 2003
- used as a term of abuse UK
Usage appears restricted to northern grammar schools deriving, perhaps, from a shortening of “blaggard” (a blackguard). - — New Society, 22 August 1963
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