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blinger

blinger noun: a person who makes an ostentatious display of wealth or style.

Noun

blinger (plural blingers)

  1. (slang) A person who makes an ostentatious display of wealth or style.
    • High-tech “blingers” have talking bibles on CD-ROM. I call it “point and click” bling. Some folks I know have the Black heritage Bible with the kente cloth motif all over it. I call that Afrocentric bling.2009, C. Nicole Treadwell, That Kiss From Heaven Fell On My Heart, page 218
    • Is the black phenomenon of bling a parodic subversion of wealth and power or the expression of an aspiration to join the unequal scramble for fame and material success, if only through magical symbolisation rather than actuality in the experience of most would-be blingers of distinction?2009, Jim McGuigan, Cool Capitalism, page 96

Forms of blinger

pluralblingers

Origin of blinger

From bling + -er.

Questions about blinger

What does blinger mean?
Blinger means a person who makes an ostentatious display of wealth or style.
What part of speech is blinger?
Blinger is a noun.
What is the plural of blinger?
The plural of blinger is blingers.

Words near blinger in the dictionary

  1. blingage
  2. blinged
  3. blinged out
  4. blinged up
  5. blinged-out
  6. blinger
  7. blingers
  8. blingier
  9. blingiest
  10. blinginess
  11. blinging

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