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Wiktionary

  1. n. Variant of bling bling.
  2. n. Ostentatious display of richness or style.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. flashy, ostentatious jewelry

Examples

  • “These dress-code offenders wear baggy pants, du-rags, flash their \ "bling bling\" like gold chains, and \ "decorative orthodontic appliances\" like gold teeth, and tattoos, bringing too much of black urban ghetto life to an elite college that fashions itself as the paragon of black manhood.”

    Irene Monroe: Morehouse's Non-Tolerance for Gays

  • “* bling bling* how do u make the chain photo frames at the bottom? so nice!”

    Giddy Tigers

  • “I have to admit that the woman with the 'bling' is actually from Guatemala, Santiago Atitlan on the shores of Lake Atitlan.”

    Growing winter vegetables

  • “Was the dress, with strategically placed holes that revealed what Ciara called "a little skin bling" — aka sparkly body lotion — from Lord & Taylor?”

    The Wall Street Journal: Stars, Stilts, Shoppers Mark Retail Facelift

  • “Inside, the vehicle is the ultimate in bling-chic, with electric curtains, massaging seats, plasma TVs, racks for glasses, decanters and – most importantly of all – a safe in which real estate or coal mining barons can store the sky-scraping piles of banknotes that drive their ­businesses.”

    Boom in Luxury Cars Sales Driven by the Super-Rich in China | Impact Lab

  • “Momon told jurors he initially tried to cover his tracks—burning between $30,000 and $60,000 in cash in a "turkey fryer" in his suburban Washington home, and filing down the engravings on jewelry he called "bling," that he said he tossed into the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Jury to Weigh Bribery Case Against Army Major, Wife

  • “Jennifer Meyer's bling is a favorite of Hollywood's finest, and now her Star necklace, which benefits Stand Up to Cancer, is hanging from the necks of Jennifer Aniston and Meryl Streep.”

    Fashion Forward: Blanchett is bright in Armani's Black Lace makeup

  • “The Christmas bling is over here now Naval Warfare Britain which I'm sure you will all agree is a very important category of a sub-category of a sub-sub category indeed.”

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  • “After X3 & Wolvie, when I think of Hugh Jackman & FOX, I think of them as the parents who have iPhones & use the word bling bling around their kids trying to impress them with their so called "acute" knowledge of whats hip.. only inciting absolute embarrassment at the mere attempt instead.”

    Hugh Jackman is Officially Developing Wolverine 2 | /Film

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  1. jewellery
  1. jewelry

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  1. slang
  1. hiphop
  1. pop culture
  1. wealth
  1. jewelry

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  • jennarenn This word needs to die. It particularly offends me when my very white, very uncool mother uses the word. Jan 15, 2012

  • mollusque Searching for bling along with words related to jewelry in Google Books suggests that it appeared around 1999. Sep 23, 2011

  • Dan337 Google Books’ premature presbyopia render it useless for finding early citations of this particular word. I am nonetheless cheered to be reminded of H.G. Wells’ classic story, “The Country of the Bling”:

            http://books.google.com/books?id=sok7HQAACAAJ Sep 23, 2011

  • sionnach Then there's warbling which is what Daddy Warbucks does over his ill-gotten gains.

    Annie: 'What's that noise?'

    'Oh, that's just Daddy Warbucks warbling over his warbling.' Feb 3, 2008

  • skeptic It's baby talk!! Feb 3, 2008

  • bilby I think it's a useful word. I saw a reference to 'pirate bling' in the window a costume shop the other day and I immediately knew what they were talking about. Much more so than if they had written 'pirate accessories'. Nov 23, 2007

  • cathari I could have made the same slip. (Is it sad that I don't even find anything sad about the slip? =P) Nov 15, 2007

  • uselessness I used to use it in reference to classic video games and the sounds they made, before the word took on the current definition. Actually I used the phrase bling bling, which was just a weird coincidence I guess.

    Also, I first mistyped "reference" as "reverence," which is a sad but true Freudian slip. :-P Oct 31, 2007

  • tellurian A veritable pox upon society; both this word and that which it defines. Representative of everything that is awful about gaudy, materialistic, thoughtless celebrity culture.

    Sadly it could be a rather pretty word in and of itself if it didn't have the connotations it does; it could be a sea-bird or a kind of knot. Is anyone out there willing to help reclaim "bling"? Oct 31, 2007

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