bling bling
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Definition
- Noun:
- Flashy, ostentatious jewelry: Refers to expensive, showy, and often large pieces of jewelry, typically made of gold, platinum, or featuring many diamonds or other gemstones. The term emphasizes conspicuous display and a high-status, luxurious aesthetic.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- The celebrity's outfit was completed with some serious bling bling.
- He saved for years to buy the bling bling for his wedding day.
Advanced Usage
- The term is inherently informal and is strongly associated with hip-hop culture and the display of wealth and success. It often carries connotations of both admiration for the achievement it represents and criticism for its overt extravagance.
- It can be used attributively (like an adjective) to describe objects that share the same flashy, jewel-encrusted quality, even if not strictly jewelry (e.g., ).
Variants and Related Words
- Bling (n): A common shortened form of "bling bling," with identical meaning.
- His watch was pure bling.
- Blinged-out (adj): Describing something that is heavily decorated with or characterized by bling.
- He arrived in a blinged-out car.
Synonyms
- Flashy jewelry: Showy, attention-grabbing adornment.
- Ostentatious jewelry: Jewelry intended to attract notice and impress others, often via obvious cost.
- Ice (slang): A slang term for diamonds or diamond jewelry.
Related Idioms & Phrases
- Dripping in bling: Wearing a very large amount of flashy jewelry.
- At the awards show, she was dripping in bling.
Noun
- flashy, ostentatious jewelry
- the rapper was loaded with bling