| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  bl t |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: blat·ted, blat·ting, blats
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To utter without thinking; blurt. 2. To sound or produce harshly or raucously: trombones blatting out a tune. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To cry, especially like a sheep; bleat. 2. To make a harsh or raucous noise. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Imitative. | | OTHER FORMS: | blat —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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