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Bucket shop

Language; Slang

An establishment selling cheap and/or low quality items in large quantities. The phrase has become a standard British colloquialism for a cut-price travel agency. The expression ...

Buckshee

Language; Slang

Free, without charge. Like baksheesh, meaning a bribe or tip, this word derives from the Persian bakshish, denoting something given or a gift, and dates from the colonial era.

Buck-wild

Language; Slang

(American) Uncontrolled, uncontrollable, running amok. The term uses the intensifying combining form 'buck-' which probably originated in the speech of the southern USA.

Bucky

Language; Slang

(British) A gun. An item of black street-talk used especially by males, recorded in 2003. The same word is a term of endearment or address among males in the southern USA.

Bud

Language; Slang

(American) Cannabis, marihuana. The use of the word is probably inspired by the appearance of the flowering heads and round seeds of marihuana plants.

Airball

Language; Slang

( American) A dim-witted, eccentric, or unpleasant person. This mildly pejorative term, originating in the 1980s, is a combination of airhead and the more offensive hairball.

Airbrained

Language; Slang

(American) Silly, frivolous, empty-headed. Slightly less derogatory than the noun airhead, this term has not been imported into Britain to any significant extent, perhaps because of ...