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'Bling'

 
 
Quantum
13:35 / 09.06.03
Define 'Bling'...

It's dictionarified already as 'bling-bling'

(from http://www.southend.wayne.edu/days/2003/may/5152003/misc/bling/bling.html)
"It's official: the common hip-hop term 'bling bling' has recently been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Fabricated by the famous Cash Money artist Baby Gangsta, the term refers to diamonds, jewelry and all forms of flashy style.

In the late 90s, the rap family, Cash Money Millionaires from New Orleans, started to use the term. BG even wrote a song titled 'Bling Bling,' which talks about diamond jewelry and nice cars."


...but the word 'Bling' is growing into wide usage, and now seems to indicate fat gold jewelry more than cars.

This is a pretty new word, and is still being defined, how do you personally use it?
 
 
Ethan Hawke
13:41 / 09.06.03
Watching MTV Cribs:

"Missy Elliot's place is incredible. She blings out things that you didn't even know could be blung."
 
 
Quantum
13:55 / 09.06.03
I bling, you bling, he she or it blings... Missy is obviously one of the world's top blingers, perhaps she is custodian of The One Bling...
 
  
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