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Bill

Language; Slang

(British) 1. A £100 note or an amount of one hundred pounds. An item of black street-talk used especially by males, recorded in 2003. I gave him two bills to take care of it. 2. The penis. ...

Bill and ben

Language; Slang

(British) Yen (Japanese currency). An item of rhyming slang from the lexicon of London City traders in the 1990s. The names are those of the two 'Flowerpot Men', heroes of a 1950s ...

Biked

Language; Slang

(British) Deceived or defrauded. This item of taxi-drivers' jargon often refers specifically to the driver's dilemma when the passenger disappears into a building without paying. ...

Billies

Language; Slang

(American) Money, dollar bills. A popular term among Valley Girls and other teenagers since the early 1980s.

A British English slang term for Britain. An anglicisation of the Hindustani bilayati, meaning foreign. The word was originally used with some affection by the pre-World War I colonial army and then ...

Blinding

Language; Slang

(British exclamation) Excellent, outstanding, astonishing. This old term of approbation from the language of middle-aged Londoners was adopted as a vogue term by adolescents in the ...

Blatherskite

Language; Slang

1. A boastful or bombastic person, a 'windbag' 2. A villainous or disreputable person This picturesque word is the American and Australian version of the Scottish dia- lect word ...