blag

Meanings

Verb

• To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
• To obtain confidential information by impersonation or other deception.
• To pick up someone.
• To inveigle by persuasion.
• To deceive; to perpetrate a hoax on.

Noun

• A means of obtaining something by trick or deception.
• An armed robbery.
• Misspelling of blog

Adjective

• Fake, not genuine.

Interjection

• An onomatopoeia for the sound of a falling strike.

Origin

• Perhaps from French blague ("joke, tall story"), blaguer, from Old Occitan blagar ("to chat").
• First attested in xkcd: "".
• Tagalog blag