Definitions for blurbs

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Spelling: [blurb]
IPA: /blɜrb/

Blurbs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in blurbs (bblrsu).

Definitions for blurbs

noun

  1. a brief advertisement or announcement, especially a laudatory one:

verb (used with object)

  1. to advertise or praise in the manner of a blurb.

Origin of blurbs

An Americanism dating back to 1910-15; allegedly coined by F. G. Burgess

Examples for blurbs

Matson read that blurb in an official press release and laughed cynically.

Even the patron saint of teenage girls, Judy Blume, is featured on the back cover with a blurb for the book.

I first read the book in galleys some months ago; the finished edition carries a blurb from me on the back cover.

Herman had the wild thought that they were blurb writers whose jobs had gone to their heads.

It—it's just the sort of thing we call a 'blurb,' Miss West!

Shteyngart sat down with The Daily Beast to discuss the book, the art of the blurb, and, yes, teaching James Franco.

That first connection over a love of words convinced Goldstein to have her editor ask Pinker to blurb her next book.

He always gave me quotes for my books, knowing that a blurb from him was as valuable as a great review.

Her first book, Poems, was published in 1944, with a blurb from Eliot, her editor at Faber.

Front matter consisting of a blurb and a list of other publications by the author has been moved to the end of the text.

Word Value for blurbs
Scrable

9

Words with friends

13

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