blag

1. (transitive, British, criminal slang) To obtain (something) through armed robbery or robbery involving violence, or theft; to rob; to steal.Britishslangtransitive

1. (transitive)Examples: "Can I blag a fag?"; "He’s blagged his way into many a party."; "He was just off to the Tramway to see that Dutch dance company. He said we could probably blag free tickets, they're desperate to paper the house."Synonyms: inveigle, sponge, beg, blag, bum, cadge, leech, moochBritishIrelandinformaltransitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "The newspaper is accused of blagging details of the prime minister’s flat purchase from his solicitors."; "I worked for a trace agency. The years became a blur. Your every day is spent ringing people to blag information out of them. You can do this in a nice way, but truth is, you choose the quickest."; "Matt Driscoll claimed that "blagging", or impersonating a third party, was used to secure the confidential information after receiving a tip that [Alex] Ferguson might be suffering from ill health. The former journalist added: "I was told sometimes you'd get a situation where if an investigator sent a fax to a GP or a hospital saying 'I'm his specialist, I need these details' it was incredible how often that would just get sent straight back.""Synonyms: inveigle, sponge, beg, blag, bum, cadge, leech, moochBritishIrelandinformalspecificallytransitive

3. (transitive)Examples: "‘For the first six years I was a total chancer,’ he [Alan McGee] said. ‘I blagged it. All I did was keep choosing the right band and try not to fuck it up too much, which I usually did. […] [N]obody taught me to run a record company and I’ve made millions of mistakes.’"; "Carly (played by Vinette Robinson): Now we’ve got just about enough lamb? / Freeman: No, we haven’t got enough lamb. / Carly: We’ve got eno— – we’ve got enough. / Andy Jones (played by Stephen Graham): All right. I’m sorry, lad. What’s your fucking problem? / Freeman: What’s my problem, Andy? It’s time and time a-fucking-gain. You’re not doing your job. / Carly: Freeman, Freeman. / Andy Jones: I can’t do them now, I didn’t do them last night, did I? I’m sorry, I apologise. I apologise. Have I said I’m sorry? Have I said I’m sorry? / Freeman: We’ve blagged it. It’s fine. We’ve got a menu for tonight."BritishIrelandinformaltransitive

4. (transitive)Examples: "He asks me afterwards if I realize what a lot of 'blagging' (bull) there is in his job. I reply, 'You blagging him or him blagging you?' / 'Oh no, blagging him,' he says. 'When you give him a ticket or something, you have to be nice to them.'"BritishIrelandinformaltransitive

5. (transitive)Examples: "Derek Jarman had also publicly identified himself as HIV-positive, while at the same time celebrating what the mainstream press saw and criticized as a promiscuous irresponsibility in blagging trade on Hampstead Heath, an infamous (and very popular) gay cruising ground in North London."BritishIrelandPolariinformaltransitive

6. (intransitive) To speak persuasively or with guile to obtain something.Examples: "Some of my readers will undoubtedly call in question the veracity of what follows, and brand it with the title which is commonly called blagging still. This appellation cannot debilitate its sincerity; […]"BritishIrelandinformalintransitive

1. (British, informal) Not genuine; fake.Examples: "You’re wearing a blag designer shirt!"BritishIrelandinformal

1. (humorous, informal) Deliberate misspelling of blog.Examples: "Why don't you write about it in your blag?"; "RONFLMAF! You do have a way with words. I think I need to update my blag, this is just too good."; "So, no less than ten people have asked me why the hell I did what I did, so here's a blag post to explain it, I guess."BritishIrelandalt-ofdeliberatehumorousinformalmisspelling