- (UK, informal) To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
- (UK, 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.
- (UK, informal) To beg, to cadge.
- Can I blag a fag?
- (UK, informal) To steal.
- (Polari) To pick up someone.
- (UK, informal, 1960s) To persuade.
- He's blagged his way into many a party.
- (UK, informal, 1940s) To deceive, to perpetrate a hoax on.
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