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Baigel

Language; Slang

(South African) A spoilt young male. The term, which is derived from Yiddish ('bagels' are the baked bread rings often taken as emblematic of Jewish exiles' culture), ...

Bail

Language; Slang

(American) To leave (in a hurry). A teenagers' shortening of 'bail out'. The word has been fashionable among Valley Girls and others since the late 1970s.

Bahookie

Language; Slang

(British) The anus. The term, of unknown derivation, was used by the comic Scottish character Rab C. Nesbitt in the BBC 2 TV comedy of the same name in 1994.

Bagsy

Language; Slang

(exclamation) A schoolchildren's term that indicates the speaker's choice of seat, cake, bed, etc. Bagsy the one with the chocolate icing!

Baidie

Language; Slang

(British) Bad-tempered, aggressive, provocative. An obscure term which is probably a dialect version of batey.

Bag some zees

Language; Slang

(American) To sleep. An alternative version of cop some zees.

Bill

Language; Slang

1. (American) to depart, leave. One of many fashionable synonyms in use in black street slang, later adopted by white adolescents in the late 1990s. It is probably an alteration of ...