According to the article, Vanilla Ice is not blingin'.

I think they just wanted an excuse to print that picture.

ooh, this is priceless too:

...says jewelry designer Robert Verdi, a correspondent for "Full Frontal Fashion," which airs nationally on WE: Women's Entertainment. "I myself aspire to bling-bling."

Of course bling-bling will go in the OED. It's English.

My phone goes 'ring-ring'

Will they be putting that in too?

I nominate 'burninator' and 'crustard'

u go mofos!!!!
/the dictionary hood

how about "pop a cap in your ass," that should go in too

Wldncrzy14 beat me to it. Curses. That's the best part of the article.

Way back when, words used in songs were already IN the dictionary.

Isn't this just creative rhyming? "Duh, what rhymes with 'thing'? Duh I dunno man, I'll just make up a word"

Oh and CNN uses it on Headline news... It must be a real hip term.

I've been vacationing in Tibet. Whats this thread about?

Bling bling
Everytime I come around yo city
Bling bling
Pinky ring worth about fifty
Bling bling
Everytime I buy a new ride
Bling bling
Lorenzos on Yokahama tires
Bling bling


Of COURSE it made the dictionary. Go BG!!!

How about:-

incarsinated
nukyular
revalence

If they're good enough for the leader of the free world, they're good enough for me.

Well, time to add them to the list.

always thought it came from meaning BMW in jamaica..

http://www.jamaicans.com/speakja/glossary.htm#b

Still makes more sence to me that it evolved from there...

Just my .02

Oh, I forgot "exemplorary". It's hard to keep up with dear old George sometimes.

I'm already so tired of everything hip-hop I could puke.

20/20:- I think the word you're looking for is "vomizzle"

Snoop Dogg should get his own dictionary and thesaurus.

President Bush had a little problem saying "rural" yeasterday.

It's funny cuz my wife has a hard time with that word also - and she purposely avoids using it... because I am a dick like that

Why not? The birth of new words and expressions constantly occur. It's a good thing. If you don't personally like this one then don't use it.

And "yeasterday" may not be in your dictionary - unless you have a special baker's edition

"The birth of a new expression"

Now that you put it like that... I feel so much more enlightened.

If only I could use this term and not have people look at me like I had a booger on my lip or something...

I, for one, will not rest until the terms "gangsta lean", "pimp-juice", and "fo sheezy" make it in.

/sarcasm

side note: I wonder what the example will be...
"Mark was happily rockin' his bling bling at the school dance."
--shudder--

Or possibly, "Mark's bling-bling was nowhere to be found after the drive-by shooting occurred..."

Or even...

"After Mark's rap career took off, the bling bling was plentiful."

So a new expression is only acceptable if it's mainly used by white people?

/playing the race card! woo!

Well it might go like:

Check out her bling bling!

or

You got your bling bling on, it's nice.

What's asinine about a real word that real people use being in a real dictionary?

OT

That personal of the day, syntax-feline thinks Kids are sexy. What a perv.

Ricardobaltazar, even better: underaged white trash boys.

Cola

Actually we will always talk differently and create new meanings to commonly used words. Or take a common word and add things to it. Like Fo Shizzle my Nizzle.

It's actually flattering when it crosses over(to me anyway).

No race bias intended - if my 6-year old uses a nonsensical word like this - I would hastily set him straight...

I guess that makes me "old-school" or something old-fashioned like that.

I still correct people for saying "fixin' to" and other ridiculous phrases

Sweet Jebus. I thought British had more sense than that

Ken_Iseeum

It's not old-school, it's the right thing to do. He's 6. He needs to learn english as his first language and can mix in the slang LATER.

I didn't have anyone to teach me grammar until I changed schools. I was 10th grade. I learned stink, stank, stunk is not correct. It still haunts me till this day because even though I'm smart, my grammar made the difference in college between a B+ and an A+.

Rhiannon

Bling Bling is basically anything that shines or is shiny.

I'm shocked no one has mentioned the Icy Hot Stuntaz yet.

I wonder if the French will add "le bling-bling" to their dictionary ?

To me it seems like the Dictionary folks are catering to a tabloid style of business to sell more dictionaries.

But I guess any word used in *ahem* mainstream society - should be found in a reputable reference source...

Doubt it, Ken. Have you ever seen an OED set? Very large, very expensive. Tracing the origins of every (I think) English word.

/mini-rant on how cool the OED is

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The great irony is people who use this term would never open a dictonary.