blagged

Verb (1)

blag (third-person singular simple present blags, present participle blagging, simple past and past participle blagged)

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

Verb (2)

blag (third-person singular simple present blags, present participle blagging, simple past and past participle blagged)

1. (Ireland, UK, informal, transitive) To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
   • Can I blag a fag?

   Synonyms:

   inveigle, sponge, beg, bum, cadge, leech, mooch, mump, scrounge, scunge

   1. (Ireland, UK, informal, specifically, transitive) To obtain (confidential information) by impersonation or other deception; also, to deceive (someone) into disclosing confidential information.
      • The newspaper is accused of blagging details of the prime minister’s flat purchase from his solicitors.
2. (Ireland, UK, informal, transitive) To obtain (something desired), or avoid (something undesired), through improvisation or luck; to fluke, to get away with.
   • ‘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.’1996, Paul Mathur, “Creation and Faith”, in Take Me There: Oasis, the Story, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, published 1997, →ISBN, page 21
3. (Ireland, UK, informal, transitive) To use guile or persuasion on (someone); also, to deceive or perpetrate a hoax on (someone).
   • 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.'1987, Roger Grimshaw, Tony Jefferson, “Patrol Report”, in Interpreting Policework: Policy and Practice in Forms of Beat Policing, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, part II (The...
4. (Ireland, Polari, UK, informal, transitive) To meet and seduce (someone) for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation; to pick up.
   • 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.1997, Ian Lucas, “The Color of His Eyes: Polari and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence”, in Anna Livia, Kira Hall, editors, Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality, New York, N.Y.; Oxford...

See all 11 meanings of blag