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blingmobile en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Etymology

From bling + mobile.

Meanings

1. (slang) A luxury vehicle, or any vehicle outfitted with expensive accessories or detailing.
   • If the MTV show Pimp My Ride, where run-of-the-mill motors are transformed into blingmobiles, were to turn its attention to heavily-armed robots, the results would look something like this. 2007 June 29, James O'Brien, “Doctor K is back to make us brighter”, in Daily Mail:
   • A silver sedan with tinted windows drove by me, then slowed down for no apparent reason. Its shiny rims kept spinning even as the wheels came to a stop. Custom-made rims were common where I'd grown up in California, but in New York City they were gangster accessories. […] I tried to jog away from the blingmobile. 2009, Paul Bacon, Bad Cop: New York's Least Likely Police Officer Tells All, Bloomsbury USA, →ISBN, pages 81–82:
   • While the advertising campaign for this environmentally irresponsible blingmobile is macho to the point of being dated, […] 2005 August 26, “Creative critique”, in Precision Marketing:

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