'something with bling?'

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Bling" usually means jewelry, but I have run across it also in the secondary sense of "flash; flashiness."

JL

Michael McKernan <mckernan at LOCALNET.COM> wrote:
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I see an extensive discussion (or at least repetition) of 'bling bling' or
'bling-bling' in the Archives as hip-hop slang (flashy jewelry...), but
it's unclear whether the single form ('bling') is an alternative with the
same meaning (or not in use in this context).

In today's NYT:

>A Little Shoe Therapy Never Hurt
>By MICHELLE SLATALLA
>You don't have to be preparing for your first day of high
>school to seek out a great pair of shoes on the Web.
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/01/fashion/thursdaystyles/01online.html?th&emc=t
>h

>Ignoring it, I asked if I could try on every ballet flat in the shoe
>department.
>
>"Do you want something plain or something with bling?" the clerk asked.
>
>"Something a teenager would never wear," I said.

Michael McKernan

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