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blagging n. The Anderson’s were able to obtain sensitive information through a process known as “blagging.” This is when bogus phone calls are made to organisations such as banks and utilities to obtain information such as details of people’s bank and mortgage accounts and tax returns. For example, “blaggers” pretend to be employees of these organisations and deceive real members of staff into disclosing personal information about individuals. [English Crime & Prisons Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 19, 2006)

blak n. Early in her career, she coined the term “Blak”—now widely used by Aboriginal artists making a political point in their work. [English Australia] [full cite] (Nov. 25, 2004)

blam n. Spim (IM Spam) is starting to emerge. Blam (Blog Spam) has exploded on the scene. [English Technology] [full cite] (Jan. 13, 2005)

blame storming n. More rationale-making, blame storming. [English] [full cite] (Dec. 17, 2004)

blamestorm n. Raising his shields for blamestorm. [English] [full cite] (Dec. 17, 2004)

blank n. Kolpacoff, who is 25 and lives in Elk Grove, is a “blank,” as a tattoo virgin is sometimes called. [ Language English] [full cite] (Oct. 4, 2005)

blank-check company n. One niche in which the company already leads are officially called a Special Purpose Acquisition Corporation (SPAC). In everyday parlance, they’re known as blank-check companies. What are those? Back in ancient times—notably the dot-com era of the 20th century—entrepreneurs came up with a dream and sold it to the eager public through an initial public offering of stock, sometimes before they had profits or even revenue. That’s old school. New school in this, the 21st century, is having an IPO for a SPAC. They have no profits and no revenue. In fact, they don’t even know what they’re going to spend their money on—hence the name “blank check.” [English Business Money & Finance] [full cite] (Nov. 8, 2006)

blanketeer n. She and a group of other volunteers, or “blanketeers” as they like to call themselves, provide handmade blankets to sick and traumatized children in Central Kentucky. The women are members of Lexington’s chapter of Project Linus, a national organization based in Bloomington, Ill., that takes its name from the Peanuts character who takes his blue security blanket wherever he goes. [English] [full cite] (Jul. 29, 2005)

blast n. They claim that if you run a full-message email ad (or “blast” as some refer to it) on a third-party list, and a recipient requests removal, both you and the third-party must remove that person from your respective lists. [English Advertising Technology] [full cite] (Dec. 21, 2004)

blast n. That system called for entering a market slowly, studying all the angles, and then launching a clearly superior product with a huge advertising blast. [English Advertising] [full cite] (Feb. 7, 2006)

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