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Bod

Language; Slang

1. The body. The short form is usually heard in American speech, as in 'check out his great bod'. In British middle-class speech it refers to an individual, as in 'odd-bod'. 2. ...

Bodge

Language; Slang

(British, Australian) (To do) a slapdash job, especially in constructing something. The term may be a back-formation from 'bodger', a rural craftsman who works out-of-doors in primitive ...

Bodgie

Language; Slang

(Australian) A male member of a youth cult, similar to the British teddy boys of the 1950s. (The female counterpart was a widgie.) In the 1930s bodgie was apparently used in American jive talk ...

Bobo

Language; Slang

A 'bourgeois bohemian' (person who simultaneously favours materialistic behaviour and 'alternative' tastes). The word began to be used in New York in 2001, although it originates in ...

Bobby soxer

Language; Slang

American) A teenage girl. The phrase referred to the short white socks worn as part of a standard ensemble in the 1930s and 1940s. The term itself survived until the 1960s.

Bodge-up

Language; Slang

(British) 1. A makeshift repair, a ramshackle construction. The result of someone bodging a job. 2. A mess or disaster. A variant of balls- up or 'botch-up' influenced by the above sense.