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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bling, bling blingnoun

    flashy, ostentatious jewelry

    "the rapper was loaded with bling"

Wiktionary

  1. blingnoun

    Variant of bling bling.

  2. blingnoun

    Ostentatious display of richness or style.

Wikipedia

  1. Bling

    Bling-bling, often shortened to just bling, is "flashy jewelry worn especially as an indication of wealth or status; broadly: expensive and ostentatious possessions" such as grills and designer bags. The term arose as slang, but grew into a cultural mainstay. Prominent examples of bling-bling include a large cross necklace or Jesus piece.

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  1. bling

    "Bling" is a slang term that originated in the hip-hop community, referring to flashy, ostentatious, or elaborate jewelry and accessories. It is often associated with wealth and displays of extravagance. The term can also be extended to refer to anything that is considered lavish, showy, or highly attractive.

Wikidata

  1. Bling

    Bling! is a fictional character, a mutant appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. She attended the Xavier Institute before its closing and is a member of the X-Men's training squad. Her first appearance was in X-Men, vol. 2 #171.

Editors Contribution

  1. blingnoun

    Bachelor of law letter type of language material used for or associated with a process of names on coins belonging to or having the quality of light. 1.) expensive, ostentatious clothing and jewelry, or the wearing of them. Perhaps imitative of light reflecting off jewelry, clashing together.

    The stars bling in the cosmos universal light.

    Etymology: Shine


    Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on April 5, 2024  

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Bling in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Bling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Bling in a Sentence

  1. Michael Kugelman:

    For some hardened and impressionable radicals, bling could be as appealing as barbarity.

  2. Francois Roudier:

    We're seeing the end of noughties bling-bling.

  3. Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews:

    Whoever had this burial was quite clearly extremely wealthy. They've been buried with the second-century equivalent of bling.

  4. Shaun Rein:

    They want to travel, they want to experience something new. They want to go to South Africa, they want to go to Alaska, they want to go to Canada for scenes of natural beauty and exercise. Bling is gone, experiences are in.

  5. Wendell Carter:

    When you remove all the bling and the bells and the sneakers and all that, you’ve paid for a child to come to your school to do what you wanted them to do for you, for free, and you made a lot of money when he did that, and you’ve got all these rules in place that say he cannot share in any of that, the only other time when labor does not get paid but yet someone else gets profits and the labor is black and the profit is white, is in slavery.

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