Meaning of "blag" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BLAG

Of unknown origin.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF BLAG

blag  [blæɡ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLAG

Blag is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb blag in English.

WHAT DOES BLAG MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Blag

Blag may refer to: ▪ Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group, an arm of the U.S. House of Representatives ▪ Blag, based in the UK ▪ Blag Dahlia, front-man of the punk rock band Dwarves ▪ BLAG Linux and GNU, an operating system produced by the Brixton Linux Action Group ▪ Informal UK term: to obtain confidential information by impersonation or other deception, as in identity theft...

Definition of blag in the English dictionary

The first definition of blag in the dictionary is a robbery, esp with violence. Other definition of blag is to obtain by wheedling or cadging. Blag is also to snatch ; steal.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BLAG

PRESENT

Present

I blag

you blag

he/she/it blags

we blag

you blag

they blag

Present continuous

I am blagging

you are blagging

he/she/it is blagging

we are blagging

you are blagging

they are blagging

Present perfect

I have blagged

you have blagged

he/she/it has blagged

we have blagged

you have blagged

they have blagged

Present perfect continuous

I have been blagging

you have been blagging

he/she/it has been blagging

we have been blagging

you have been blagging

they have been blagging

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I blagged

you blagged

he/she/it blagged

we blagged

you blagged

they blagged

Past continuous

I was blagging

you were blagging

he/she/it was blagging

we were blagging

you were blagging

they were blagging

Past perfect

I had blagged

you had blagged

he/she/it had blagged

we had blagged

you had blagged

they had blagged

Past perfect continuous

I had been blagging

you had been blagging

he/she/it had been blagging

we had been blagging

you had been blagging

they had been blagging

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will blag

you will blag

he/she/it will blag

we will blag

you will blag

they will blag

Future continuous

I will be blagging

you will be blagging

he/she/it will be blagging

we will be blagging

you will be blagging

they will be blagging

Future perfect

I will have blagged

you will have blagged

he/she/it will have blagged

we will have blagged

you will have blagged

they will have blagged

Future perfect continuous

I will have been blagging

you will have been blagging

he/she/it will have been blagging

we will have been blagging

you will have been blagging

they will have been blagging

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would blag

you would blag

he/she/it would blag

we would blag

you would blag

they would blag

Conditional continuous

I would be blagging

you would be blagging

he/she/it would be blagging

we would be blagging

you would be blagging

they would be blagging

Conditional perfect

I would have blag

you would have blag

he/she/it would have blag

we would have blag

you would have blag

they would have blag

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been blagging

you would have been blagging

he/she/it would have been blagging

we would have been blagging

you would have been blagging

they would have been blagging

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you blag
we let´s blag
you blag

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to blag

Past participle

blagged

Present Participle

blagging

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

TRANSLATION OF BLAG

Find out the translation of blag to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of blag from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «blag» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: blag
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• English: blag
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• Translator English - Bengali: blag
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• Translator English - Malay: Blag
• Translator English - German: BLAG
• Translator English - Japanese: 強盗を働く
• Translator English - Korean: 블래
• Translator English - Javanese: Blag
• Translator English - Vietnamese: blag
• Translator English - Tamil: blag
• Translator English - Marathi: धुके
• Translator English - Turkish: blag
• Translator English - Italian: blag
• Translator English - Polish: blag
• Translator English - Ukrainian: Blag
• Translator English - Romanian: Blag
• Translator English - Greek: blag
• Translator English - Afrikaans: blag
• Translator English - Swedish: blag
• Translator English - Norwegian: Blag

QUOTES WITH «BLAG»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word blag.

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Rory Bremner

I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLAG»

Discover the use of blag in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to blag and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Nina

Nina West hasn't quite crossed the line into adulthood yet, but that's the only line she hasn't crossed. Left to her own devices after the untimely death of her parents, Nina is a young girl coming of age with no apologies or conscience.

Blag Dahlia, 2006

Blag

When a runaway Asian bride, her corrupt father-in-law and a psychotic Glaswegian immigration officer bring them inexorably together, Harry and Sean have little choice but to team up for the blag of their lives.

Tony Saint, 2007

Blag

What does hip-hop look-like nowadays? What is street style and why do skateboards, graffiti, and Black Culture influence Western lifestyle more and more?

Sally Edwards, 1999

A Typology of Verbal Borrowings

PASS PRF.ACT IMP stem -a-blug -u-blag- balag- — 1SG 'a-blug-u 'u-blag-u balag-tu — 2SG.M ta-blug-u tu-blag-u balag-ta u-blug 2SG.F ta-blug-ma tu-blag- Ina balag-ti u-blug-I 3SG.M ya-blug-u yu-blag-u balag-a — 3SG.F ta-blug-u tu- blag-u ...

Jan Wohlgemuth, 2009

Tectonic Uplift and Climate Change

It was used as the proxy for CO2 outgassing for the first 150 million years of the 1994 version of BLAG. The Engebretson record is shown in bold in Fig. 4a. In Fig. 4b. we show a comparison between the Engebretson seafloor generation rate ...

William F. Ruddiman, 1997

Dictionary of Wa (2 vols): With Translations into English, ...

_» plak piang [et] plak guax [blag mguax] /plak gua?/gus?/ Ё 171 ‚ Ё Ё zuöbian left, left Эйде _» plak gwiex [_] _» plak dawm: [et] C C C loc. 000300031 03036 plak gwiex [blag mguiex] /plak gusï/ loc. 030503051 03056 Fujii/„FLE zuöbiän, ...

Justin Watkins, 2013

Dictionary of St. Lucian Creole

jersey, n., djezi, on ves lenn. jest, n., blag, plezantwi; mopou fe ou wi; in jest, pou fe wi; kon on blag many a true word is spoken in jest, anpil bagai ki moun ka di an blagka vwe bien souvan; v., badnen; bat blag fe moun wi; jesting, a., di an wian ...

Jones E. Mondesir, Lawrence D. Carrington, 1992

Allergens and Allergen Immunotherapy, Second Edition

Source Allergen MW(kDa) Identificationa Accession number B. germanica Blag 1.0101 6–90 Unknown AF072219 Blag 1.0102 90 Unknown L47595 (= Bla g 90 kDa) Blag 1.02 6–90 Unknown AF072220 Blag 2 36 Inactive aspartic proteinase  ...

Richard F. Lockey, Samuel C. Bukantz, Richard F. Lockey, Jean Bousquet, Samuel C. Bukantz, 1998

Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the ...

In The Child.ermnss, the feminized "Satters" becomes a stuttering parody of Stein : "Y-y-y-y-y-y — you howwid blag-blag-blag-blag-blag-blag-blag-blag blag- blag —!" A stein-stammer that can never reach the guard of blackguard hammers ...

Tyrus Miller, 1999

Magma to Microbe: Modeling Hydrothermal Processes at Oceanic ...

MODELING THE MG AND CA CHEMISTRY OF THE OCEANS The notion that variation in the rate of circulation of seawater through mid-ocean ridges might drive changes in ocean chemistry was first quantified with the so-called BLAG model ...

Robert P. Lowell, Jeffrey S. Seewald, Anna Metaxas, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLAG»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term blag is used in the context of the following news items.

Lowe: Fresh start for Glory

“If we can blag it and finish a bit higher than we finished last year, we'll have a good year.” Glory plays their first competitive match in the ... «Hyundai A-League, Jul 15»

Unity - does indie gaming's biggest engine have an image problem?

When assets provide tools to cut out almost any of the hard work and required skill, that's when you get the amateurs trying to blag their way ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

Greek Referendum: Win Win for Europe

... overspent and ultimately cooked the books with the help of esteemed financial experts and managed to blag their way into the Euro family. «Slugger O'Toole, Jul 15»

Amazon Prime Day: everything you need to know

Set a budget for whatever bargains you want to blag, and. 2. Have an idea of what you actually want to buy before you go in. Hoping for a good ... «TechRadar, Jul 15»

International Monetary Fund tells Greece it can not provide money …

... overspent and ultimately cooked the books with the help of esteemed financial experts and managed to blag their way into the Euro family. «iFreePress.com, Jul 15»

Free And Cheap London Events: 6-12 July 2015

WIMBLEDON SCREENINGS: Didn't manage to blag Centre Court tickets this year? No fear, all the SW19 action is being shown on big screens ... «Londonist, Jul 15»

Do you need a degree to run a business?

With no qualifications to her name getting a job was pretty tricky, but she managed to blag a job at a local brewing company. Her rise there was ... «Simply Business knowledge, Jul 15»

Greek debt crisis: Anti-EU group burns flag in Anthens

The Greeks have this macho ''we can blag our way out of anything'' attitude. They have an ingrained contempt for rules and for those that try to ... «BT.com, Jul 15»

Still too hot for trains! Second day of cancellations to Essex services

... were up early to get a train before the weather got to hot, losers were checking rail updates on the website to see if they could blag a day off. «Echo, Jul 15»

Lowe relishes early shot at league rivals

“Maybe if we could blag it this year and do a little bit better, it'd be great. We said last year that we were really focused about the competition ... «The West Australian, Jul 15»