Meaning of blingy | Babel Free

Definitions

Extravagantly showy; shiny, glittery.

informal

Examples

“Kanye, who had a blingy neck chain with Jesus icon - a Jesus Christ with aquatic blue, diamond eyes - tried, unsuccessfully, to get⟳ the jeweller to turn⟳ Christ's eyes darker and the whole icon a shade darker than it was.”

“Adam Perry Lang is at the opposite end⟳ of the grilling spectrum, a blingy S.U.V. to Mallmann’s muddy old Land⟳ Rover.”

“He sings about being spurned, drunk, rebounding and flaunting his blingy Patek Phillipe watch⟳ as Bizarrap quantizes regional Mexican acoustic sounds — the syncopated chords and trombone of a brass band, the slapping bass lines of a bajo sexto, solos on high-strung Mexican guitars — into a computerized track.”

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