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Definition of blurb noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

blurb

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/blɜːb/
 
/blɜːrb/
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  1. a short description of a book, a new product, etc., written by the people who have produced it, that is intended to attract your attention and make you want to buy it
    • publisher’s blurbs
    • The blurb says that this is Tarantino’s greatest movie.
    Topics Literature and writingc2
    Word Originearly 20th cent.: coined by Gelett Burgess (died 1951), American humorist.
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