bling-bling
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(blĭng) or bling-bling (blĭng′blĭng′)Slangn.
1. Jewelry or fashion accessories, usually made of metal or other shiny material.
2. Showy or ostentatious items.
adj.
Deliberately showy; ostentatious.
[Originally hip-hop slang, probably meant to suggest light flashing off showy jewelry.]
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bling-bling
(ˈblɪŋˌblɪŋ) orbling
adj
flashy; ostentatious; glitzy
n
ostentatious jewellery
[C20: imitative of jewellery clashing together or of light reflecting off jewellery]
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