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Babylon

Language; Slang

(British) 1. racist white society, Britain. The term originates in the biblical imagery of the rastas, but has spread, largely via the medium of reggae music, to other black youth and ...

Back

Language; Slang

(American) 1. the backside, buttocks, especially if large or prominent. This term from black American usage became popularised via the rap lyrics to 'Baby Got Back' by Sir Mix-A-Lot ...

Babydyke

Language; Slang

(American) A teenage lesbian or girl of 'lesbian appearance'. 'This refers to the young generation of lesbians who are currently of high-school and college age; marked by their short ...

Baccy billup

Language; Slang

(British) A cigarette. In playground parlance since 2000. Baccy is an old abbreviation of tobacco; billup may be an alteration of build (up) in the slang sense of construct, e.g. a hand ...

Baccy

Language; Slang

(British) Tobacco. This now rather dated alteration of the standard term replaced the previous forms 'bacca' and 'bacco' early in the 20th century. (Cannabis was known joc- ularly in the 1960s ...