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Balls-out

Language; Slang

Full-scale, full-tilt. A vulgar version of all-out, this fairly uncommon intensifying expression is normally used by males.

Ballsy

Language; Slang

Courageous, spirited. A vulgar alternative to gutsy. The word can be applied to either sex.

Balls-ache

Language; Slang

(British) Something which or someone who is very tedious or trying.

Bitch

Language; Slang

1. A pejorative term for a woman which, although not strictly speaking slang, is normally highly offensive. As a term of denigration bitch, like its alternatives 'sow', 'vixen', ...

Bird

Language; Slang

(British) 1. A girl. A very common term in the late 1950s and 1960s, it is now somewhat dated and considered offensive or patronising by most women. The word was first a 19th-century term of ...

Bish-bash-bosh

Language; Slang

(British) Quickly, efficiently, in quick succes- sion. A vogue catchphrase in use among fashionable young professionals in Lon- don in the mid-1980s and still heard. It was bish-bash-bosh/a ...

Biscuit

Language; Slang

(American) 1. An attractive person. The term, heard in the late 1990s, can be used by, and of, either sex. Wow, a total biscuit! Compare earth biscuit 2. The head The result was Chrissie bumped ...