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Breadhead

Language; Slang

Someone who is motivated by money, a mercenary person. A term of disapproval from the hippy era, applied to those professing loyalty to the counterculture but who openly or covertly sold out to ...

Bread

Language; Slang

Money. In the 1960s this usage sup- planted the earlier dough in hip parlance; by the late 1970s the word was dated and in the 1980s had largely been replaced by a variety of colourful ...

Brass-monkeys

Language; Slang

(British) Extremely cold. A shortening of 'brass- monkey time' or 'brass-monkey weather', this phrase refers to the widely known vulgar saying 'cold enough to freeze ...

Brandy

Language; Slang

(British) The backside, buttocks. Used in this sense the term has been heard among the London gay community since the 1960s and may have originated from the rhyming slang ...