blat 1 of 2

as in to exclaim
to utter with a sudden burst of strong feeling blatted an obscene expletive before biting the dust

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blat

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noun

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Recent Examples of blat
Verb
Your problem is that you were raised on fantasies of blatting muscle cars and Bueller-esque Ferrari Daytonas, and don’t know how to find something fun, affordable, and unexpected. Brett Berk, GQ, 26 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blat
Verb
  • Van Etten exclaimed after the audience’s rapturous applause.
    Britt Julious, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2025
  • Teddy exclaimed, taking his one-millionth photo of the morning.
    Bonnie Tsui, AFAR Media, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • It's said that March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb, but this year, the fierce roar of Mother Nature lasted the entire month.
    Meredith Garofalo, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The roar of the crowd Baxter Springs, Kansas, native Eric Trease said there’s nothing like a UFC crowd.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 27 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Traditionally, the upside down American flag signals distress, and that was the mood expressed as speakers shouted, cried and chanted with the crowd of around 100 people.
    Harley Walls, Arkansas Online, 17 May 2025
  • In a separate post, Cabrera shouted out some teammates who came and visited him in the hospital overnight.
    Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • But their magnum opus was 1978’s Dub Housing, where Thomas shows off his collection of animal noises, grunts, yelps, and screeches, up to his neck in industrial synth-and-guitar factory noise.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
  • His grandson toddled over, climbed into his lap, accepted a kiss with a screech of delight, and scooted off again.
    Ben Ehrenreich, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Roki Sasaki would lift his left leg almost to his head, stretch far down the front side of the mound, and let out a grunt as a blur of white leather came screaming from his hand.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025
  • Then, the researchers performed a statistical analysis of specific two-call combinations — such as a grunt followed by a bark — that were documented in multiple animals.
    Evan Bush, NBC news, 11 May 2025
Verb
  • Because the cardinals are sequestered during a conclave, black or white smoke is used to represent the cardinals' decisions for the day, bellowing from a Sistine Chapel chimney.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 8 May 2025
  • The energy at the midnight Cannes screening was particularly electric, with the crowd screaming and bellowing before the film had even begun.
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • This pageant of puppetry includes a flutter of butterflies, a goat with a plaintive bleat, a menagerie of wild animals and, at one point, a school of glowing fish.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025
  • Moments later, the bear rushes in, bites the fawn in the back, and violently shakes it as the fawn lets out piercing bleats.
    Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • As the birds practiced, their initial random squeaks gradually turned into melodies that closely matched their parents’ songs.
    Jenny Lehmann, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
  • And studies have shown that mice carrying human FOXP2 genes also make strange squeaks.
    Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025

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“Blat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blat. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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