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Blowfurt

Language; Slang

(British) A white person who affects black mannerisms, clothing, etc. A highly pejorative term of uncertain derivation used by black teenagers in the early 1990s; it may ...

Blower

Language; Slang

(British) A telephone. A slang term which was common by the 1940s and is still heard. It may originate in 'blow' as an archaic term meaning 'to talk', or from the habit of ...

Blowhard

Language; Slang

A pompous and/or aggressive person, a blusterer. The term seems to have arisen in American speech but is now heard in all English-speaking regions. Puff-bucket is a near synonym.

Bonk

Language; Slang

(British) To have sex (with). A vogue word of the late 1980s; first heard in the late 1970s and quickly picked up by the media as a useful, vigorous, but printable euphemism for ...

Bona

Language; Slang

(British exclamation) Excellent, fine, the real thing. An all-purpose term of approbation increasingly heard among working-class Londoners in the 1980s, probably derived from 'bona ...

Boner

Language; Slang

1. A clumsy error, serious mistake. The origin of the term is not clear; it may be inspired by 'bone-headed' or by a 'bone- jarring' blow. 2. An erection. 'Bone', 'hambone' and 'jigging bone' ...

Bonce

Language; Slang

(British) The head. Bonce was a mid-19th-century dialect and schoolboy term for a big marble. The word was soon adapted to mean the head, and in that sense remained popular in young ...