blagverb [ T ]
uk/blæɡ/us/blæɡ/-gg- UK informalto persuade someone in a clever or slightly dishonest way to allow you to do something or to give you something:
Somehow they managed to blag their way in.
There are often people heading my way so it's easy to blag a lift.
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Cheating & tricking
- a numbers game idiom
- bad faith
- bamboozle
- bilk
- blackmail
- fleece
- gag
- hoodwink
- impersonate
- jape
- jiggery-pokery
- lead sb a (merry) dance idiom
- poison
- scam
- scammer
- screw
- sell sb a bill of goods idiom
- send/give out (all) the wrong signals idiom
- shaft
- wool
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blagger
noun [ C ] uk/ˈblæɡ.ər/us/ˈblæɡ.ɚ/