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Bonzer

Language; Slang

(Australian) Excellent, great. A word sometimes adopted for humorous use by British speakers. It may derive from bonanza or from Latinate words for 'good'.

Book

Language; Slang

As a verb (American): To depart, leave. A fashionable term of the 1990s in black street usage and also heard among white adolescents. A variety of euphemisms (like its contemporaries bail, ...

Bonkers

Language; Slang

1. Crazy. A common colloquialism in Britain since the mid-1960s (it seems to have existed in restricted use since the 1920s), bonkers has more recently been adopted by American ...

Boo

Language; Slang

(American) 1a. A term of endearment, especially towards a partner of either sex 1b. A 'significant other', e.g. a partner, girl/boyfriend. An expression used on campus in the USA since around ...

Boom

Language; Slang

1. Eexcellent, exciting 2. Sexually attractive The usage, popular since 2000, probably originated in Afro-Caribbean speech. In 2005, pupils at a South London secondary school excused their ...

Booby hatch

Language; Slang

A psychiatric hospital. A jocular term, originally from North America. The association with boob and 'booby' is obvious; hatch or hutch is an archaic term for many different enclosures ...

Boob

Language; Slang

To blunder, commit a gaffe or error. The verb to boob, based on the earlier nouns 'booby' and 'boob' in the sense of a fool, has been in use since before World War II, the reduplicated form ...