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
Noun
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
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Verb
  • Martin exclaimed to the thousands in the crowd, as if to celebrate Byron and Cabot’s evident bliss with each other.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 17 July 2025
  • His grandmother used to be an opera singer here in Cincinnati, Leithauser exclaimed over a trickling applause.
    Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 17 July 2025
Noun
  • One of the Harley-Davidson Homecoming festival’s centerpiece attractions — concerts in Veterans Park in downtown Milwaukee — ended not with a roar but with a whimper July 11, and abruptly, when the concerts were canceled around 6 p.m. due to approaching storms.
    Piet Levy, jsonline.com, 12 July 2025
  • So the approving roar was, in part, driven by relief and hope for a team Amaya Papaya win.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • Most of those shouting questions at Tatis for 45 minutes were doing so in Spanish.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2025
  • The 53-year-old ageless wonder was bouncing around the football field barking encouragement, shouting out orders and running circles around participants — many nearly 40 years his younger — at the Orlando Quarterback Shootout and Battle in the Pit.
    Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • Cicadas are back at it again in 2025, already emerging in droves to announce the approach of summer with their screeches.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2025
  • The screech of an infected is the first sign of trouble.
    EW.com, EW.com, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Challenge a good ol’ boy on a tractor to diagram a sentence and the reaction would likely amount to a short grunt.
    Tom Roland, Billboard, 10 July 2025
  • Refinements since then pushed the output to 300 hp and 365 lb-ft, offering a mild edge over the outgoing engine, but a new six-speed automatic replacing the old four-speed one meant the SUV could make better use of the grunt on hand.
    Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 5 June 2025
Verb
  • The soulful rasp of his voice bellowed through the open-roof into the Nashville night.
    Bryan West, The Tennessean, 30 May 2025
  • The wind instrument's dramatic and reverberating sounds have bellowed throughout the naves of churches for more than 1,000 years.
    Aaron Valdez, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • The jarring bleat came across cellphones in Tennessee Monday morning grabbing peoples attention.
    Liz Kellar, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The footage shows the beautiful black cat not with a typical meow, but with a series of gentle squeaks.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025
  • George's solo culminated in a symphony of squeaks before MJ Lenderman returned to the stage for a two-song encore.
    Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 17 May 2025

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“Blat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blat. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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