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Wealth that insists on being noticed, preferably from across the room.

means Flashy, expensive-looking jewelry or accessories worn to visibly display wealth or status.

from An onomatopoeic coinage from hip-hop culture in the late 20th century, said to echo the flash of light glinting off diamonds and chrome — or the sound such jewelry might make if it could clink. Popularized by rap lyrics and artists in the 1990s, it entered mainstream dictionaries in the early 2000s, a rare case of slang tracing its birth certificate almost exactly.

origin
coined by rapper B.G. in 1999
etymology
supposedly mimics light flashing off diamonds
dictionary status
entered Oxford English Dictionary in 2003
economics
signals status louder than it signals taste
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