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Bait

Language; Slang

An attractive potential sexual partner. This term was used in the 1950s and 1960s, either alone or in compounds such as bed-bait and the surviving jail- bait.

Baked

Language; Slang

(American) The term usually refers to the effects of marihuana and implies a milder intoxication than fried. Synonym: stoned.

Baking brownies

Language; Slang

(American) Breaking wind, farting. An expression used on campus in the USA since around 2000.

Baksheesh

Language; Slang

A bribe, tip or payment. From the colonial era, the word is from the Persian bakshish, meaning something given.

Baked bean

Language; Slang

(British) The Queen. An authentic item of rhyming slang.

Bins

Language; Slang

(British) 1a. Glasses, spectacles. A cockney shortening of binoculars, sometimes spelled binns. The term has been in use at least since the 1930s and is still heard. 1b. The eyes. An extension ...

Bingo wings

Language; Slang

(British) Flabby upper arms. The mocking pejorative term is typically applied to females. It was popularised by the TV comedy Bo Selecta in 2003 and 2004. The bingo reference may be to elderly ...