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blurb definition

☆ blurb (blʉrb)

noun

an advertisement or announcement, as on a book jacket, esp. one that is highly laudatory

Etymology: coined (c. 1907) by (Frank) Gelett Burgess, for “self-praise, to make a noise like a publisher”

intransitive verb

Informal to state in a blurb

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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