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Bottle

Language; Slang

(British) Courage, bravery, 'nerve', especially in the phrases to 'have a lot of bottle', to lose one's bottle and 'his/her bottle's gone'. It derives from 'bottle and glass', rhyming ...

Boss

Language; Slang

Excellent, first-rate, superlative. Currently a fashionable word among teenagers all over the English-speaking community, boss originated in American black street jargon of the early 1960s. ...

Bounce

Language; Slang

1. To leave I'm bored. Let's bounce. 2. To behave aggressively. The word has been used in this sense by London teenagers since the 1990s, but bounce denoting swagger dates from the late ...

Born-again

Language; Slang

(British) An intensifying phrase used to prefix another pejorative term, the usage (which may have arisen in armed-services' speech) is based on the notion of a 'born-again ...

Bottle it

Language; Slang

(British) A later synonym for the more widespread expression bottle out, recorded among London football hooligans in the late 1980s 'Blair had decided to cancel his reshuffle. After ...

Boracic

Language; Slang

(British) Penniless, broke. The word is a shortening of the rhyming slang 'boracic lint': skint. A genuine example of London working-class argot, this term was adopted into raffish ...

Bo selecta

Language; Slang

(exclamation) An expression of enthusiasm, approval, etc. The phrase, from the garage music scene, literally meaning 'excellent DJ', was popularised by the comic persona Ali G played by Sasha ...