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Backdoor man

Language; Slang

1. A secret lover, especially a married woman's lover. The term is originally black American slang dating from at least the 1950s. 'I'm your backdoor man… the men don't know, but the ...

Backdoor

Language; Slang

1. To commit adultery (with) 'In Australia, you'd never get away with some of the things I've seen here be- cause you'd get a punch in the mouth. We don't go in for backdooring someone ...

Back garden

Language; Slang

The anus. Predictable euphemisms which are invariably used in a sexual context, usually by heterosexuals. Synonyms: back way, backdoor.

Backfire

Language; Slang

To fart. A term which is in use in Australia and has been heard occasionally in Britain, especially among schoolchildren, since the 1950s.

Back-assed

Language; Slang

(American) a. backwards, reversed You got it all back-assed. b. perverse or clumsy a back-assed way of doing things.

Bin

Language; Slang

1. A pocket, usually in trousers. This example of the jargon of cat burglars was recorded in FHM magazine in April 1996. 2. The bin (British) a mental hospital or asy- lum. A ...

Bimbette

Language; Slang

A silly, empty-headed young girl. A jocular diminutive of bimbo, popular in the mid-1980s, first in the USA and then, via magazine articles, in Britain, where it has been enthusiastically ...