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Blub

Language; Slang

(British) To cry, weep. A middle-class children's and public-school term, typically used derisively. It is a shortening of the colloquial 'blubber'. 'But the boiled egg made his gorge rise, and ...

Bludge

Language; Slang

(Australian) To cadge, scrounge, shirk or loaf. Originally the word meant to bully and was a shortening of bludgeon. It later meant to live off immoral earnings. The word, which has ...

Blue balls

Language; Slang

A condition of acute (male) sexual frustration, jocularly supposed to bring on a case of orchiditis, the testicles swelling to bursting point. This American expression of the 1950s, popular ...

Blown-up

Language; Slang

(American) 1. Excessive, impressive. An expression used on campus in the USA since around 2000. That party sure was blown-up; there must've been two hundred people there. 2. ...

Bollocks

Language; Slang

1. The testicles. A version of this word has existed since Anglo-Saxon times; in Old English it was bealluc, a diminutive or familiar elaboration of bula, meaning ball. For much of its existence ...

Bokoo

Language; Slang

(American) Very. This facetious adoption of the French beaucoup ('much' or 'many') probably originated in black bebop or white Cajun usage, but by the 1990s was fashionable among ...

Bollers

Language; Slang

(British) Money. The term is probably a humorous alteration of dollars, perhaps influenced by boyz. It may mean simply money or a large quantity of money, as in 'He's got bollers'. The term ...