Bling is showy expensive jewellery. Covered in bling, a bit of bling, all bling and no taste.
It is informal and half-mocking, though it can be worn as a boast. The word covers anything deliberately flashy, so a watch or a phone case can be bling.
1nounblingShowy expensive jewellery.
“He turned up in a plain suit and a great deal of bling.”
bling is jewellery.
From bling bling, hip-hop slang of the late 1990s, imitating the imagined sound of light flashing off a jewel.
an ellipsis of bling bling.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA