blags

Noun (1)

blag (plural blags)

1. (UK, slang) An armed robbery or robbery involving violence; also, theft.
   • 'What's he do, Micky?' / 'Armed blags is what I hear – s'posed to be one or two nice little tucks down to him that he didn't go for. He keeps well active. Someone told me he's putting one together now.[…]'1977, G[ordon] F[rank] Newman, chapter 4, in Law and Order, St. Albans, Hertfordshire: Granada Publishing, published 1983, →ISBN, page 40

Noun (2)

blag (plural blags)

1. (Ireland, UK, informal) An attempt to obtain, or the means of obtaining, something by guile or persuasion; a trick.
   • A good blag to get into a nightclub is to walk in carrying a record box.
2. (Ireland, UK, informal) An act of deceiving; a con, a deception, a hoax.
   • Because I used to run cons with him. I came up here as a nun, but that was just a blag to make money out of the miners.2013, Janis Pegrum Smith, More than Gold, [United Kingdom]: T*P Books, Wilton End Publishing, →ISBN

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