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   blag

   /blaɡ/

   verb

   • 1. manage to obtain (something) by using persuasion or guile: "they blagged two free tickets to France"
   • ▪ manage to obtain (private or confidential information) by impersonation or another method of deception: "they were often able to hack phones because they had blagged phone numbers and passwords"
   • 2. steal (something) in a violent robbery or raid: "I could lie in wait and blag her fur coat"

   noun

   • 1. an act of using persuasion or guile to obtain something: "raising the £6.5 million had been either a heroic achievement by selfless, dedicated humanitarians or the blag of the century"
   • 2. a violent robbery or raid.

   Word Origin late 19th century: perhaps from French blaguer ‘tell lies’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. blagger noun

   Scrabble Points: 7

   • B

     3

   • L

     1

   • A

     1

   • G

     2

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