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Blagged vs Bagged - What's the difference?

blagged | bagged |

As verbs the difference between blagged and bagged

is that blagged is past tense of blag while bagged is past tense of bag.

blagged

English

Verb

(head)
  • (blag)

  • blag

    English

    Verb

    (blagg)
  • (British, informal, transitive) To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
  • (British, informal) More specifically, to obtain confidential information by impersonation or other deception.
  • The newspaper is accused of blagging details of Gordon Brown's flat purchase from his solicitors.
  • (British, informal, transitive) To beg, to cadge.
  • Can I blag a fag?
  • (UK, informal, transitive) To steal.
  • (Polari) To pick up someone.
  • To persuade.
  • He's blagged his way into many a party.
  • To deceive, to perpetrate a hoax on.
  • Synonyms

    * pretext

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, informal) A means of obtaining something by trick or deception.
  • A good blag to get into a nightclub is to walk in carrying a record box.
  • An armed robbery.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (British, informal) Fake, not genuine.
  • You’re wearing a blag designer shirt!

    Derived terms

    * blagger, Blagger

    bagged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bag)
  • The groceries had already been bagged .

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