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Bran

Language; Slang

(British) 1. Cannabis 2. Heroin for smoking The term is an alteration of brown.

Bubble

Language; Slang

(British) A Greek. Rhyming slang from 'bubble and squeak', an inexpensive dish of fried leftover mashed potatoes and greens. The term probably dates from the 19th century, ...

Bubba

Language; Slang

(American) A young man, especially an uncomplicated extrovert. The jocular term, evoking beer- and sport-loving, possibly well-to-do redneck youths, was applied in the mid-1990s to ...

Brown trousers

Language; Slang

(British) (A situation that is) very frightening. A light-hearted reference to the terrified person losing control of their bowel movements. Now mainly middle class in usage, the term ...

Bruck

Language; Slang

(British) Broken, destroyed. A dialect form of 'broken' in the speech of the southern USA and of the Caribbean, this term passed from black British usage into general adolescent ...

Brutal

Language; Slang

Excellent. A typical appropriation of a negative (compare bad, wicked, chronic) as a faddish adolescent form of all-purpose approval. Brutal has been recorded at different times in the ...

Bruck out

Language; Slang

To dance, especially frenetically. The phrase, heard since around 2000, originates in Jamaican usage and is a dialect pronunciation of 'break out', in the sense of erupt, burst free.