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'Bling-Bling' Makes New Oxford Dictionary
Associated Press ^
| June 6, 2003
| Staff
Posted on 06/06/2003 6:22:37 PM PDT by AntiGuv
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posted on
06/06/2003 6:22:37 PM PDT
by
AntiGuv
To: AntiGuv
What does "bling-bling" mean?
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posted on
06/06/2003 6:23:47 PM PDT
by
Poohbah
(Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
To: AntiGuv
Never mind. Read right over it.
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posted on
06/06/2003 6:24:24 PM PDT
by
Poohbah
(Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
To: AntiGuv
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posted on
06/06/2003 6:27:40 PM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
To: Poohbah
All I know is:
Most girls want a man with the bling-bling- according to Pink
;^)
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posted on
06/06/2003 6:27:55 PM PDT
by
AntiGuv
(™)
To: AntiGuv
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posted on
06/06/2003 6:28:44 PM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
To: AntiGuv
The Iraqi's taught me the Brit's word "wanker".
Wonder if that one is in there?
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posted on
06/06/2003 6:30:39 PM PDT
by
lizma
To: AntiGuv
The publishers said they have added almost 6,000 new words and phrases...That's a lot of words to add...
I wonder how many old ones they've cut out.
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posted on
06/06/2003 6:31:57 PM PDT
by
Willie Green
(Go Pat Go!!!)
To: lizma
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posted on
06/06/2003 6:32:37 PM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(A v v n c v l v s M a x i m v s)
To: Poohbah
Bling-bling is American slang, but I guess they include both in the Oxford. At least I assume they do.
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posted on
06/06/2003 6:34:14 PM PDT
by
Skywalk
To: martin_fierro
www.urbandictionary.com Shouldn't that be www.urbandictionary.com -weekly-?
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posted on
06/06/2003 6:34:22 PM PDT
by
abner
To: Poohbah
What does "bling-bling" mean? Jewelry. There's some disagreement over whether it refers to the sound of it bouncing off the wearer's chest or the cartton sound effect of it glinting in the sun. It can refer to wealth too instead of just jewelry.
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posted on
06/06/2003 6:35:47 PM PDT
by
MattAMiller
(Iraq was liberated in my name, how about yours?)
To: AntiGuv
Who is making up all these crap words???? Do we really have to accept all this nonsense and put it into the dictionary? I guess we are a society that can't stay focused too long without having to interject "new" words to spice up the vocabulary. Some I can understand - the rest are just garbage which will soon pass into the "groovy" past.
To: AntiGuv
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posted on
06/06/2003 6:41:40 PM PDT
by
southernnorthcarolina
(France is a country located between Andorra and Luxembourg, and is of less consequence than either.)
To: MattAMiller
"bling-bling" is the kinda thing that makes Homer Simpson go "OOoooo Shiney"(c)Homer, but has no real value. IE: A Benz hood ornamant worn around the neck of a poser. A BMW keychain caried by a guy who drives a Pacer. Diamond on hilary . . .you get the picture.
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posted on
06/06/2003 6:42:18 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(Piss off a liberal: Hire Someone.)
To: WhereTheBuffaloRoam
Re: I guess we are a society that can't stay focused too long without having to interject "new" words to spice up the vocabulary. Internert? Email ?
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posted on
06/06/2003 6:43:36 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(Piss off a liberal: Hire Someone.)
To: WhereTheBuffaloRoam
This is like complaing about the dawn- it gets you nowhere.
They add new words to the dictionary every year.
To: MattAMiller
Guaranteed it's the cartoon sound. I remember it's first usage and it was more associated with the "shine" of jewelry, which in cartoons has that "bling" sound.
Actually it was just "bling" at first but the song that had the words "bling-bling" popularized that.
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posted on
06/06/2003 6:45:39 PM PDT
by
Skywalk
To: Poohbah
gutter slang for money or merchandise or business
If you walk into a walmart and the greater says " 'come to da mart holmz... we be glad you come here to drop 'yo bling"
He is saying, "Welcome to Walmart, we appreciate your business"
If you walk into a Jewlery store and the sales hommie says
"Yo, check dis bling-bling", he is saying "please look at our merchandise"
If you get mugged on the street and the guy says "Gimme yo' bling-bling bee-yotch" you are being asked to surrender your money.
To: Prodigal Son
Yes I agree that new words are needed to describe things new to our culture but Bling-bling??? Come on - let them come and go without documenting the brain storm of some creepy Englishmen who lives in their mother's basement!!
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