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Bags

Language; Slang

1. Trousers. The word has had this meaning since the mid-19th century and survives, usually in a humorous context. 2. as American slang: female breasts.

Baldy man

Language; Slang

(Scottish) The penis. To 'make the baldy man cry' is to stimulate a male to orgasm. The term was posted on the b3ta website in 2004.

Bag of fruit

Language; Slang

(Australian) A suit (of clothes). An item of native rhyming slang. all done up in his best bag of fruit.

Bake

Language; Slang

(British) A hideaway or refuge. This example of the jargon of cat burglars was recorded in FHM magazine in April 1996 and defined as 'a place to lay low while the constabulary run hither ...

Baller

Language; Slang

(American) A male who is successful and/or ostentatious. This usage, originating in black speech, probably derives from the verb ball and the noun ballin'. The word has also been used in the ...

Bale on someone

Language; Slang

(American) To oppress, burden or trouble someone. The bail or bale in question may derive from cotton picking, as in the words from Ole Man River; 'tote that barge, lift that bale, get a ...

Bald

Language; Slang

(American) Terrible. A vogue term among American teenagers in 1987 and 1988. The origins of this kind of appropriation from standard English are unrecorded, but often begin in gang ...