blingmobile
English
Etymology
bling + mobile
Noun
blingmobile (plural blingmobiles)
- (slang) A luxury vehicle, or any vehicle outfitted with expensive accessories or detailing.
- 2005, "Creative critique", Precision Marketing, 26 August 2005:
- While the advertising campaign for this environmentally irresponsible blingmobile is macho to the point of being dated, […]
- 2007, James O'Brien, "Doctor K is back to make us brighter", Daily Mail, 29 June 2007:
- 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.
- 2009, Paul Bacon, Bad Cop: New York's Least Likely Police Officer Tells All, Bloomsbury USA (2009), →ISBN, pages 81-82:
- 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.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:blingmobile.
- 2005, "Creative critique", Precision Marketing, 26 August 2005: