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Bivvy

Language; Slang

(British) As a verb: To bivouac, make camp. A shortening used by scouts and the armed forces in the 1970s and 1980s. As a noun: 1a. A bivouac, camping place 1b. A tent, especially a small ...

Blab

Language; Slang

To inform (on someone), to tell tales or reveal information. The term often has the sense of a garrulous or inadvertent revelation of a secret or confidence. Like blabber, the word ...

Bit of fluff

Language; Slang

(British) A woman, seen as attractive but frivolous, or not to be taken seriously. A con- descending male term from the early 1900s, still fairly widespread in the 1960s and not yet ...

Blabber

Language; Slang

(Australian) A TV remote control. This item of domes- tic slang of the 1980s refers to the mute capability. No universal slang term for the remote control has yet emerged, though zapper is a ...

Black bag job

Language; Slang

(American) A break-in or other covert operation carried out by a government agency. A piece of jargon from the time of the Watergate scandal.

Bite

Language; Slang

(American) To be repellent, inferior, worthless. Since around 2000 'it bites' has been synonymous with 'it sucks'.

Bob

Language; Slang

(American) To have sex (with). This fairly inoffensive term, heard among American adolescents, began to be used by younger speakers in Scotland and the north of England in the late ...