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blurb

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1. blurb - Noun

2. blurb - Verb

Meaning

a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books)

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The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience. Alice Sebold

If you can't think of a good blurb for a story, bounce it. John W. Campbell

the author got all his friends to write blurbs for his book Source: Internet

As for the new blurb, you can read the short teaser here: "As the gigantic Kong meets the unstoppable Godzilla, the world watches to see which one of them will become King of the Monsters." Source: Internet

Another variation asks players to write the first line of a novel using the title and the blurb read out from the back of the book as clues. Source: Internet

A blurb on an author's website struck a chord with me. Source: Internet

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