A Glossary Of English Slang And Colloquialisms Currently Used In Britain (UK).

A Glossary Of English Slang And Colloquialisms Currently Used In Britain (UK).

abdabs	Noun. Terror, the frights, nerves. Often heard as the screaming abdabs. Also very occasionally 'habdabs'. [1940s]
absobloodylutely	Adv. Absolutely.
Abysinnia!	Exclam. A jocular and intentional mispronunciation of "I'll be seeing you!"
accidentally-on-purpose	Phrs. Seemingly accidental but with veiled malice or harm.
AC/DC	Adj. Bisexual.
ace (!)	Adj. Excellent, wonderful. Exclam. Excellent!
acid	Noun. The drug LSD. Lysergic acid diethylamide. [Orig. U.S. 1960s]
acid house	Noun. The dance music scene that pre-empted 'rave' in Britain, and began the long association of 'house' music and 'ecstasy'.
ackers	Noun. Money. From the Egyptian akka.
action man	Noun. A man who participates in macho activities.
Adam and Eve	Verb. Believe. Cockney rhyming slang. E.g."I don't Adam and Eve it, it's not true!"
aerated	Adj. Over-excited. Becoming obsolete, although still heard used by older generations. Often mispronounced as aeriated.
afto	Noun. Afternoon. [North-west use]
afty	Noun. Afternoon. E.g."Are you going to watch the game this afty?" [North-west use]
agony aunt	Noun. A woman who provides answers to readers letters in a publication's agony column. {Informal}
aggro	Noun. Aggressive troublemaking, violence, aggression. Abb. of aggravation.
air biscuit	Noun. An expulsion of air from the anus, a fart. See 'float an air biscuit'.
airhead	Noun. A stupid person. [Orig. U.S.]
airlocked	Adj. Drunk, intoxicated. [N. Ireland use]
airy-fairy	Adj. Lacking in strength, insubstantial. {Informal}
air guitar	Noun. An imaginary guitar played by rock music fans whilst listening to their favourite tunes.
aks	Verb. To ask. E.g."I aksed him to move his car from the driveway." [dialect]
Alan Whickers	Noun. Knickers, underwear. Rhyming slang, often shortened to Alans.
alcopop	Noun. Sweet, ready-mixed fruit drinks containing alcohol. Cf. 'tart fuel'. {Informal}
aled (up)	Adj. Drunk, intoxicated by alcohol, usually beer (ale).
alkie	Noun. An alcoholic. Also spelt alky.
all fur coat and no knickers	Phrs. Of a woman, all superficial appearance and no real substance beneath. Derog.
all mod cons	Noun. All the fixtures and fittings necessary and expected - an abb. of all modern conveniences. {Informal}
all mouth and (no) trousers	Phrs. Boastful and without just reason. E.g."You shouldn't pay any attention to him, he's all mouth and no trousers."
all-nighter	Noun. A club night or event that goes on all night.
all over the shop	Phrs. 1. In a mess, out of order, disorganized. 2. Everywhere. E.g."I've been all over the shop this morning and I can't find her anywhere."
allow (it)	Verb. Forget it, don't bother. [London use]
all time loser	Noun. A public house, a bar. Rhyming slang on 'boozer'. See 'boozer'.
all to cock	Phrs. Messed up, useless, wrong.
all to pot	Phrs. Wrong, messed up. E.g."Our whole holiday went all to pot when Dad got arrested for being drunk."
almond rocks	Noun. Socks. Cockney rhyming slang, often shortened to almonds.
alright!	Exclam. Hello. A greeting. No answer is expected to what is inherently a question. Northern dialect has created the phonetic corruption awreet.
amber nectar	Noun. Lager. [Orig. Aust.]
anchors	Noun. Brakes. E.g."I slammed the anchors on and hit my head on the steering wheel."
ane	Noun. Abb. of anus.
ankle-biters	Noun. Children, particularly crawling babies. [Orig. Aust.]
anorak	Noun. An often socially inept person, having an obsessive interest in a hobby or subject. Usually has little or no fashion sense, and errs towards eccentricity. Originates from the 'trainspotter' look, of wearing anoraks; spending so much time at the end of station platforms in all weathersnecessitates the wearing of such attire. Cf. 'trainspotter'. Derog.
answers on a postcard	Phrs. If anyone has any ideas, or a response, to the question/problem that has just been posed, please let me know? From when, during the 1970s and 80s, blank postcards were used by viewers to mail answers to competition questions posed on TV programmes, in the hope of winning a prize. The advent of SMS and phonelines ensured the end of the postcards as a means of entering competitions.
antwacky	Adj. Old fashioned. Possibly from antique(y). E.g."Oh no way! I'm not wearing those shoes, they're so antwacky." [Merseyside/West Lancashire use]
any cop	Phrs. Of value, of any worth. E.g."Have you heard their new CD? I heard it was rubbish but do you think it's any cop?" See 'cop' (adj). Cf. 'no cop'.
any road	Adv. Anyway. Also spelt anyroad. [Northern use]
apeshit	See 'go apeshit'.
apeth	Noun. A pet name for a silly person. A shortening of daft apeth. Apeth, derived from haypneeworth (half a penny's worth) but pronounced ha'p'orth.
apple (core)	Noun. 20. Cockney rhyming slang on 'score'. [1950s]
apples and pears	Noun. Stairs. Possibly the most commonly expressed piece of Cockney rhyming slang that is used as an example of such, or used in jocular mimicry. The term is infrequently heard used in genuine daily use.
April	Noun. Bottom, buttocks, 'arse'. Rhyming slang from April in Paris rhyming with arris - see 'arris'.
Archer	Noun. £2000. From the amount of money given by Jeffrey Archer to a prostitute (Monica Coughlan) to enable her to leave the country, and in order to buy her silence over services rendered. Jeffrey Archer, ex-member of Parliament and best selling author, served a prison sentence for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
argue the toss	Vrb phrs. To argue or dispute loudly and at length.
argy-bargy	Noun. Trouble, noisy quarrelling, arguing. {Informal}.
arris	Noun. Buttocks, 'arse'. Convoluted Cockney rhyming slang for 'arse'; Arris, an abbreviation of Aristotle, rhyming with bottle, and thereafter leading to bottle and glass rhyming with 'arse'. Also aris.
arrows	Noun. Darts, the equipment and the game itself.
arse	Noun. 1. The buttocks. The similar 'ass' isn't used as frequently, remaining more of an Americanism. S.e. from 1600s until mid 1800s. 2. An objectionable person. 3. A mistake, a poor job. E.g."He's made such an arse of that plastering job that I think we'll need to redo it." Exclam. Expressing anger or frustration.
arse about /around	Verb. To mess around, to waste time.
arse about face	Phrs. Back to front.
arse about tit	Phrs. Back to front.
arse-bandit	Noun. A homosexual male. Derog.
arsed	Adj. Concerned, bothered. Usually heard in the negative sense of can't be arsed. E.g."I can't be arsed with work today, it's too damned hot."
arseface	Noun. 1. An ugly person. 2. A contemptible person.
arsehat	Noun. A contemptible person. Anglicized version of the original U.S. version, 'asshat'. Cf. 'asshat'.
arse-hole	Noun. 1. An idiot, contemptible person. 2. The anus. * Also spelt arsehole.
arseholed	Adj. Very drunk.
arse-lick	Verb. To grovel, ingratiate oneself.
arse-licker	Noun. A sycophant.
arse-licking	Adj. Sycophantic behaviour. Noun. An act of sycophantic behaviour. E.g."If he keeps giving the boss an arse licking at the rate he's currently doing, then he'll be first in line for a promotion."
arse load	Noun. In large quantities, a lot of, a great amount. E.g." She's given me arse loads of paperwork to complete before lunch."
arsemonger	Noun. A contemptible person. Also arse monger.
arse-on	Noun. 1. A bad mood. E.g."Keep out of Andy's way, he's got a the arse-on." 2. A difficult task. E.g."It was a right arse on to repair it."
arse over kettle	Phrs. Fall over. Also arse over tea kettle.
arse over tip	Phrs. Fall over, head over heels. E.g."She went arse over tip on the ice outside."
arse over tit	Phrs. Meaning the same as 'arse over tip'.
arse-up	Noun. A shambles, a 'cock-up'. Verb. To make a 'cock-up'. E.g."You wouldn't have arsed it up if you'd revised for your exam like everyone else."
arsewipe	Noun. 1. Toilet paper. 2. A contemptible person.
arsey	Adj. Moody.
article	Noun. An objectionable person. E.g."Come on, go and tidy your bedroom you lazy article."
arty-farty	Adj. Pretentiously artistic. {Informal}
arvo	Noun. Afternoon. See 'this arvo'. [Orig. Aust.]
as fuck	Phrs. An intensifier. E.g."It was rusty as fuck, so wasn't worth repairing."
as rare as hen's teeth	Phrs. Very rare, non existent. From hens not having teeth.
as rare as rocking horse shit	Phrs. Very rare, non existent.
as right as rain	Phrs. Satisfactory, comfortable, well.
ass	Noun. See 'arse'.
ass bandit	Noun. A homosexual male. Derog. Cf. 'arse bandit'.
ass clown	Noun. An idiot. [Orig. U.S.]
asshat	Noun. A contemptible person. Cf. 'arsehat'. [Orig. U.S.]
asshole	Noun. See 'arsehole'.
ass lick / ass licker / ass licking	Verb. See 'arse lick' and associated expressions.
asswipe	Noun. Meaning the same as 'arsewipe'. [Orig. U.S.]
as the actress said to the bishop	Phrs. A jocular catch phrase that draws attention to an otherwise innocent statement by imbuing sexual innuendo. Other variations include "as the mistress said to the gardener".
Auntie	Noun. Affectionate and dated pet name for the BBC (The British Broadcasting Corporation).
Aussie kiss	Noun. Cunnilingus, from the fact that it's the same a French Kiss, but given down under.
away and shite (!)	Vrb phrs. Go away! [North-east use]
'ave it	Verb. Go for it. See 'have it'
aviation blonde	Noun. A female with hair dyed blonde. From blonde hair, black box - black box being an aeroplane flight recorder and 'box' also being slang for vagina.
avvy	Noun. Afternoon. See 'this avvy'.
away with the mixer	Phrs. Not quite in touch with reality, in a dreamy state. [Merseyside use]
awesome!	Adj. Great! Excellent! [Orig. U.S.]
awlarse	Noun. A contemptible person. Also auldarse, allarse. Possibly from old arse. [Merseyside use]
awright (!)	Adj./Adv./Exclam. An alternative spelling and pronunciation of alright (all right).
axe	Noun. A guitar.
axe wound	Noun. Vagina. Cf. 'hairy axe wound'.
Ayrton	Noun. Ten pounds (monetary). Rhyming slang for tenner, on Ayrton Senna, the motor racing driver.
ay-up!	Exclam. A greeting, hello. [Midlands/North use. Dialect]

bab	Verb. To defecate. [Yorks/Hull/Notts use] Noun. 1. Faeces. [Yorks/Hull/Notts use] 2. Term of affectionate address, such as dear or friend. [W. Midlands use] 3. Abb. of kebab.
baba *	Verb. To defecate. [Yorks/Hull/Notts use] Noun. Faeces. [Yorks/Hull/Notts use] * Also spelt babber.
babby	Noun. A baby, child. [Northern & Midlands use. Dialect]
babe	Noun. 1. Usually applied to a young attractive female but also said with reference to males. [Orig. U.S.] 2. An affectionate form of address.
babe magnet	Noun. An attractive or sexually desirable male. [Orig. U.S.]
baboon	Noun. An oaf, a fool.
baby batter	Noun. Semen. Cf. 'baby gravy'
baby gravy	Noun. Semen. Cf. 'baby batter'
baby's head	Noun. A steak and kidney pudding. [North-west use]
backdoor	Noun. A euphemism for the anus. [Orig. U.S.]
backhander	Noun. A bribe.
backie	Noun. A pillion ride on a bycycle.
back passage	Noun. The rectum. {Informal}
back scuttle	Noun. Anal intercourse. Verb. To have anal intercourse.
backs to the wall	Phrs. A homophobic comment and warning to fellow heterosexuals that contact with a gay male is likely or happening. From the misconception that all gay males will endevour, or want to have anal intercourse with any male. Derog.
backy	Noun. Abb. of tobacco. Another variation is Backo.
bacon sarnie	Noun. Pakistani. Rhyming slang. See 'sarnie'.
bad	Adj. Good, excellent. [Orig. U.S.]
bad egg	Noun. A miscreant, a corrupt person, an untrustworthy person. Cf. 'good egg'.
badger	Verb. To bother incessantly. E.g."Stop badgering her, she's not interested in buying another pair of your cheap trainers."
bad hair day	Noun. 1. A day when one is unable to arrange one's hair into a satisfactory and pleasing style. 2. Used figuratively for a problematic and difficult day.
badly packed kebab	Noun. The female genitals. [1990s]
bad mouth	Verb. To insult or denigrate. [Orig. U.S.]
bad news	Noun. A troublesome person.
baffies	Noun. Slippers. [Scottish use]
bag	Noun. 1. An ugly woman. Derog. Cf. 'old bag'. 2. An objectionable and unpleasant person. 3. Meaning that which interests. E.g."What's your bag ? Mine is dance music." [Orig. U.S. 1960s] 4. The scrotum. Suffix. A suffix that emphasises the essential undesirable nature of a person in perjorative nouns such as 'tossbag', 'shitbag', 'ratbag' etc.
bag (of sand)	Noun. £1000, a thousand pounds sterling. Rhyming slang on a 'grand'. Often shortened to bag.
baggin(g)	Noun. A snack or food taken between meals. Heard pronounced as baggin. [Lancs/Yorks use]
baghead	Noun. A heroin addict.
bag lady	Noun. A homeless woman who carries her worldly possessions in bags.
bag of bones	Noun. A very thin or emaciated person or animal.
bag off	Verb. To commune with someone sexually desirable, occasionally in so much as having sex. E.g."She bagged off with that"
bag of shit	Noun. A general disparaging term, used for either a person or thing. E.g."He hadn't slept or washed for 4 days and looked like a bag of shite."
bag of shite	Noun. See 'bag of shit'.
bag of wank	Noun. A thing or situation that is not very good, that is poor, without value. E.g."I was expecting a big bag of wank, but I actually enjoyed the film, apart from the scene where the dog died."
bag of washing	Noun. A failed parachute or other material based airfoil, such as a hang glider. [Orig. Military use]
bag on	Noun. A bad mood. [E. Midlands use]
bags	Verb. To claim as one's own due to being the first to make such a claim. E.g."Bags I go first." {Informal} Noun. Trousers. {Informal}
bagsy	Verb. A variation on 'bags' (verb). Basically meaning bags I. See 'bags'.
bahookie	Noun. The backside, the bottom, the buttocks. [Glasgow use]
bait	Adj. Obvious.
bake	Noun. The mouth. [Irish/Scottish use]
baked bean	Noun. The queen. Rhyming slang.
baldy notion	Noun. An idea, a clue. Usually in the negative sense such as "to not have a baldy notion". Often abbreviated to baldy. [N. Irish use]
ball-ache	Noun. A troublesome and inconvenient task. Also ballache. E.g."I wish I hadn't sold the car, walking 5 miles to and from work, everyday, is a real ball-ache."
ball and chain	Noun. A wife or girlfriend. Derog.
ball-bag	Noun. The scrotum.
ballocks (!)	Noun. 1. The testicles. A variation on 'bollocks'. S.E. from 1200s, slang from mid 1800s. Cf. 'bollocks'. 2. Rubbish, nonsense. Exclam. An exclamation of annoyance, disbelief or disagreement.
balloon knot	Noun. The anus. From its appearance.
balls (!)	Noun. 1. Testicles. Usually in plural. 2. Courage, in for example, "She hasn't got the balls to tell him the truth." 3. Rubbish, nonsense. Exclam. Expressing annoyance.
ballsed-up	Adj. Ruined, in a mess.
balls (something) up	Verb. To make a mess of a situation. E.g."I couldn't believe I ballsed up my driving test by making exactly the same mistake as the previous six times."
balls to the wall	Phrs. Quickly.
balls-up	Noun. A mess up, a 'cock-up'. E.g."I've made a right balls-up of my exams." Verb. To make a mess of a situation.
balm	Noun. A bread bun or roll. Common mispelling of barm. Cf. 'barmcake'.
balmy	Adj. Insane, crazy. A derivative of the earlier 'barmy.'
baloney	Noun. Nonsense. Also spelt boloney. [Orig. U.S.]
baltic	Adj. Very cold, with respect to the weather or air temperature. [Orig. U.S.]
bam	Noun. A foolish and objectionable person. Abbreviated form of 'bampot'. Derog. [Scottish use]
bampot	Noun. A foolish and objectionable person. Derog. Cf. 'bam' and 'bamstick'. [Scottish use]
bamstick	Noun. A foolish and objectionable person. Derog. Cf. 'bam' and 'bampot'. [Scottish use]
banana	Noun. A penis.
bananas	Adj. Insane, mad, hysterical. [Orig. U.S.]
bang	Verb. 1. To copulate. A particularly aggressive term. 2. To put or place, the implication being with nonchalence. E.g."I'll bang those in an envelope and send them off first post in the morning." Noun. An act of copulation.
banger	Noun. 1. A sausage. The English meal of sausages and mashed potato is traditionally called bangers and mash. 2. A delapidated car. 3. A small firework that is explosively loud but visually unstimulating.
banging	Noun. Sexual intercourse. Adj. Exciting, energetic, wonderful, excellent. Often heard pronounced bangin'.
bang on	Adj./Adv. Exactly, correct. {Informal}
bang on about (something)	Vrb phrs. To talk incessantly and uninterestingly, to nag. E.g."You're not going to change my mind by banging on about it!"
bang one out	Vrb phrs. To masturbate. E.g."Steve watched Bay Watch on TV and then banged one out before his mum came home."
bang out of order	Phrs. Totally unacceptable.
bang-tidy	Adj. Sexually attractive.
bang to rights	Phrs. Caught red-handed. Police/criminal vernacular often heard used jocularly.
bang (someone) up	Verb. 1. To put (someone) in prison. {Informal}. 2. To make (someone) pregnant.
banjax	Verb. To ruin. [Mainly Irish use.]
banjaxed	Adj. 1. Ruined, defeated. Originally Anglo-Irish use, popularized by the UK radio/TV presenter Terry Wogan with his book of the same name. 2. Drunk, by extension of meaning 1.
banjo	Verb. To hit or punch. [Scottish use] Noun. 1. A sandwich, particularly one that contains sauce type condiment or other runny ingredient that may spill onto one's clothes, for example egg banjo (fried egg sandwich). 2. A shovel. [Orig. Aust.]
banjo'd	Adj. Drunk, intoxicated.
banjo string	Noun. The frenulum of the penis.
banko	Noun. Abb. of bank holiday (a national holiday).
baps	Noun. Breasts. E.g."Look at the baps on her!"
bar	Noun. One pound sterling.
barbie	Noun. Abb. of barbecue. [Orig. Aust.]
barbs	Noun. Abb. of barbituates.
Barclay's (Bank)	Noun. An act of masturbation. From the rhyming slang for 'wank'.
barcode	Noun. A supporter of the Newcastle United football club. From their team kit being designed around black and white vertical stripes, like a barcode.
bare	Adj. A lot of, significant amount. E.g."It's just bare hype, the film's just famous faces and no plot." [London use] Adv. Significantly. [London use]
barf	Verb. To vomit, probably onomatapoeic in origin. E.g."He's feeling woozy, I think he's gonna barf his dinner up." [Orig. U.S. 1940/50s]
barking	Adj. Insane, crazy. Short for barking mad.
barking spider	Noun. The anus.
barmcake	Noun. 1. A lighthearted term for a fool or idiot. 2. A bread bun. Also barm cake. [North-west use]
barmpot	Noun. A silly person. A lighted-hearted expression.
barmy	Adj. Mad, crazy, insane. Cf. 'balmy'. [1600s]
barnet	Noun. Hair. From the Cockney rhyming slang barnet fair. [Mid 1800s]
barney	Noun. An argument. [Late 1800s] {Informal}
barney (rubble)	Adj. Trouble. Rhyming slang. [1960s]
barry	Adj. Good, nice. [Edinburgh use]
Barry White *	Noun. 1. Rubbish, nonsense. 2. An act of defecation. * Both uses are rhyming slang on 'shite' (shit). See 'shite'. Barry White, U.S. soul singer who came to the fore in the 1970s.
barse	Noun. The perineum. From the area between the balls and the arse.
bar steward	Noun. A pun on 'bastard'.
base over apex	Phrs. Head over heels, upside down. E.g."His front wheel hit a rock on the road and he went base over apex."
bash	Noun. 1. An event, a party. E.g."I'm having a bash at a club for my birthday." 2. An attempt. E.g."Try having a bash at the next question if you can't answer the first."
bash the bishop	Verb. To masturbate. Derived from the similarity of the head of the penis with a bishop's mitre. E.g."It's a myth that constantly bashing the bishop makes you blind."
basket	Noun. A euphemism for 'bastard'.
basket case	Noun. An emotionally unstable person, a dysfunctional person, a completely useless person. Originally an amputee, especially a soldier, who had lost all four limbs, coined during the First World War.
bastard (!)	Noun. 1. A contemptible person. Derived from the original meaning, an illegitimate person, when to be born out of wedlock was viewed as objectionable. 2. A pitiable person. E.g."That poor bastard never stood a chance once the avalanche started." Adj. Used as an negative intensifier. E.g."My bastard car wont start again!" Exclam. Exclamation of anger.
bastarding	Adj. An intensifier. E.g."I'm sorry for being late, I missed the bastarding bus again!"
bat for both sides	Vrb phrs. To be bisexual.
bat for the other team	Vrb phrs. 1. To be homosexual. E.g."He wont be interested in your sister, he bats for the other team." 2. To be of a different sexual persuasion.
bat for the opposition	Vrb phrs. To be homosexual. 2. To be of a different sexual persuasion.
bathers	Noun. Swimming/bathing costume. [Orig. Aust./N.Z.] {Informal}
bat in the cave	Noun. A globule or lump of nasal mucus when visible up a nostril.
bat on a sticky wicket	Vrb phrs. To put oneself in a difficult and unfavourable position.
battered	Adj. Very intoxicated by drink or drugs.
battery operated boyfriend	Noun. A vibrator, sex toy. Cf. 'bob'.
battle cruiser	Noun. A pub, bar. From rhyming slang for 'boozer'. See 'boozer' (noun 1).
batty	Adj. Crazy, eccentric. Noun. Buttocks, bottom. [Orig. W.I.]
batty boy	Noun. A homosexual male. From batty meaning buttocks. Also battyboy, battyman. Derog. [Orig. West Indies]
batty bwoy	Noun. See 'batty boy'. Also batty-bway.
batty crease	Noun. The area between the buttocks. See 'batty' (noun).
batty man	Noun. See 'batty boy'. Also battyman.
batty rider	Noun. Skimpy shorts that 'ride' up to expose the wearers bottom ('batty') cheeks, usually female attire. [West Indies/Black UK?]
baw-bag	Noun. 1. The scrotum. From 'ball-bag'. [Scottish use] 2. A contemptible person. [Scottish use]
bawheid	Noun. 1. A bald head. [Scottish uses] 2. An idiot, buffoon. [Scottish uses]
bazzin'	Adj. Excellent. E.g."That was a bazzin cricket match." [Midlands/North use?]
beach-bum	Noun. A person devoted to spending as much time as available on the beach. Cf. 'surf bum'.
beak	Noun. 1. The mouth. [Irish/Scottish use] 2. A judge or magistrate. 3. Cocaine.
beakie	Noun. The dirt or bodily secretions that accumulate at the corner of the eyes or between the toes. [Scottish use]
beaked up	Adj. High on cocaine. E.g."We had a great night, everyone was well beaked up."
beal	Verb. To cry. [Grimsby use]
bean	Noun. 1. An ecstasy pill. 2. Clitoris. Used in phrases such a 'flicking the bean'.
beanfeast	Noun. A party, celebratory event. {Informal}
bean-flicker	Noun. A lesbian. The bean refers to the clitoris.
beano	Noun. A party. Abbreviated form of 'beanfeast'. {Informal}
bear	Noun. A large hairy man. [Gay use]
beard	Noun. 1. A woman who is seen to be romantically linked with a gay man, so protecting his true sexuality from public scrutiny - often associated with celebrities. [Orig U.S.] 2. Of a woman, pubic hair.
bearded clam	Noun. The female genitals, inclusive of pubic hair.
beast with two backs	Noun. A man and woman engaged in the act of sexual intercourse. An expression whose usage dates from at least as early as 1604, being mentioned in Shakespeare's Othello. E.g."Your daughter and the Moore are making the beast with two backs" [1600s]
beat seven shades of shit out of (someone)	Vrb phrs. To thoroughly beat up. Also, less commonly, beat seven kinds of shit out of (someone). Cf. 'kick seven shades of shit out of (someone)'
beat the bishop	Verb. To masturbate. Cf. 'bash the bishop'.
beat the meat	Verb. To masturbate. E.g."My son seems to be preoccupied with beating his meat at every possible hour of the day."
beaver	Noun. The female genitals, implying the inclusion of pubic hair. [Orig. U.S.] Verb To work hard. {Informal}
beaver cleaver	Noun. Penis. See 'beaver' (noun).
beaver leaver	Noun. A homosexual male. Due to not being interested in 'beaver' and leaving it alone. See 'beaver' (noun).
beaver lever	Noun. Penis. See 'beaver' (noun).
beddable	Adj. Sexually desirable, from being good enough to take to bed.
Bedfordshire	Noun. Bed or bedtime. [1700s]
bed hair	Noun. Dishevelled hair, as may result from a good night's sleep.
bedsit	Noun. Abb. of bed-sitter or bed-sitting room. A small apartment whereby the bedroom also serves as a sitting room (living room). {Informal}
Beeb	Noun. 1. The commonly used nickname for the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), the nationally owned television production and broadcasting company. {Informal} 2. Nickname for the BBC Micro computer, an early form of home computer from the 1980s.
beef	Noun. 1. Muscly, strong looking males. {Informal} 2. A complaint, a grievance, problems (with something). E.g."If you've got a beef about the decision, then fill in the appropriate appeal forms." [Orig. U.S.]
beef bayonet	Noun. The penis.
beef curtains	Noun. The female genitals. [Orig. U.S.]
beef (something) up	Vrb phrs. To increase in size or volume; basically to make stronger. E.g."Once he'd beefed up his engine, his car was unbeatable on the track."
beer baby	Noun. A protruding belly, from drinking excessive amounts of beer, that makes its owner look pregnant.
beer belly	Noun. A bulging stomach caused by drinking large quantities of beer.
beemer	Noun. A BMW automobile. Cf. 'bimmer'.
beer goggles	Noun. The impaired judgement from the excessive consumption of alcohol (beer) that makes an otherwise unappealing person or thing seem attractive. E.g."I was obviously wearing beer goggles last night; when I awoke and saw who I'd brought home the previous night I nearly threw up, she had 3 eyes, a green beard and tentacles coming out of the top of her head." [1990s]
beer o'clock	Noun. The time one feels is most appropriate for some alcoholic refreshment , such as beer. Often used specifically to mean the end of the working day.
beer scooter	Noun. The supposed transport one must have taken to get home when very drunk and as there is no recollection of how one did get home. [1990s]
beer tits	Noun. Fatty deposits on the breasts of a male, arising through excessive beer drinking. Cf. 'bitch tits'.
beer tokens	Noun. Money.
bees and honey	Noun. Money. Rhyming slang.
bee's knees	Noun. The best. This term originates from the prolific slang of the Flappers along with the similar 'cats whiskers'. Cf. 'dogs bollocks'. [Orig. U.S. 1920s]
bee stings	Noun. Small breasts. Derog.
beetle	Verb. To hurry. E.g."I've just spent 2 hours beetling around the shopping precinct looking for a gift for Mick." {Informal}
beetle bonnet	Noun. The female mons pubis, from its vague resemblence to the bonnet of a Volkswagen Beetle car.
beezer	Adj. Excellent, great. E.g."The holiday was beezer." {Informal} Noun. 1. Something impressive, or large. [Mainly Scottish use] {Informal} 2. Nose.
beggar	Noun. Euphemism for 'bugger'.
begging for it	Vrb phrs. A general comment on a person's supposed, if not actual, yearning for sexual intimacies. E.g."Cor, look at her! She's begging for it."
bejesus!	Exclam. An Anglo-Irish corruption of the exclamation by Jesus! Expressing surprise or annoyance.
bell	Verb. To telephone (someone). E.g."I'll bell you tonight with the news."
bell-end	Noun. 1. The head of the penis, being vaguely bell shaped. Also bellend. 2. A contemptible person, an idiot.
bell on every tooth	Phrs. When applied to a person, noisy, loud. Also a bell in every tooth. [Welsh use]
belly-ache	Noun. A complaint. {Informal} Verb. To complain persistently.
belly timber	Noun. Food. [Early 1700s]
belly-up	Adj. 1. Dead. 2. Failed, bankrupt.
belt	Verb. To hit. Noun. 1. A hit. E.g."If you don't shut up moaning I'll give you a belt 'round the head." 2. A drink, by extension of meaning 1. E.g."Have a belt of that brandy, it'll warm you up."
belter	Noun. An excellent thing or event. [Orig. Northern dialect]
belting	Adj. Outstanding, wonderful. {Informal}
belt up!	Verb. Be quiet! Shut up!
bender	Noun. 1. An excessive bout of drinking, but more recently also inclusive of a drug taking spree. [Orig. U.S.] 2. A homosexual. Possibly derived from gender bender, or from being the passive partner, bending over to receive sex, as opposed to being the thruster. Derog.
bend one's elbow	Vrb phrs. To have an alcoholic drink.
bend someone's ear	Vrb phrs. To talk incessantly and tediously at someone. E.g."The manager's been bending my ear all afternoon about regulations and company protocol."
benny	Noun. 1. A tantrum, a fit of anger. See 'throw a benny'. 2. A person from the Falkland Islands. A nickname given to islanders by the British army during the Falklands War, and supposedly as they looked like a character called Benny from a British TV soap called Crossroads. [1982]
bent	Adj. 1. Homosexual, as opposed to 'straight'. Derog. [Mid 1900s] 2. Criminal, corrupt. E.g."You can usually buy your freedom; the cops are bent and paid poorly." [Early 1900s] 3. Illegal, stolen. E.g."I'm not touching that video, it's bent." [Early 1900s]
bent as a bottle of chips	Phrs. 1. Homosexual. 2. Crooked, dishonest. See 'bottle of chips'.
bent as a nine bob note	Phrs. 1. Homosexual. See 'bent'. 2. Crooked, dishonest. A catch-phrase whose original meaning was version 2, but with the onset of 'bent' referring to homosexually has come to be heard more with regard to version 1. In British currency, a bob was a slang expression for a shilling (five pence) but with decimalization in 1971 became obsolete.There was never any such thing as a nine bob note, hence the simile. Cf. 'queer as a nine bob note' and 'camp as a row of tents'.
bent as a nine pound note	Phrs. A modern variation on 'bent as a nine bob note', see above.
berk	Noun. An idiot, objectionable person. Derived from the rhyming slang Berkshire Hunt or Berkeley Hunt, meaning 'cunt'. Normally Berkshire and Berkeley would be pronounced Barkshire and Barkeley. This expression is generally accepted as inoffensive despite its source. Also 'burk'.
(the) berries	Noun. The best. Also 'the berrys'. [Scottish use]
Bertie big bollocks	Noun. A person with an over inflated opinion and value of themselves. The expression, if not invented, was popularized by John Sitton, manager of Leyton Orient football club, who, on a 1995 TV documentary on his team ('Orient: Club for a Fiver'), angrily berates his team during the half-time team talk, after going 3-0 down. [1990s]
best of British!	Phrs. Good luck!
(the) best thing since sliced bread	Phrs. Absolutely the best thing ever.
better half	Noun. One's wife, husband or partner.
better than a kick in the teeth / balls	Phrs. Catch-phrase expressing that one should be happy with the situation, as it could be much worse. E.g."I only won £10 on the national lottery yesterday, but I shouldn't complain, it's better than a kick in the balls."
better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick	Phrs. A catch-phrase that expresses that a situation could be much worse, hence one should be grateful. Also 'better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick'.
better than a slap in the face with a wet kipper / fish	Phrs. Expresses that a situation could be considerably worse, hence one should be grateful.
Betty Swollox	Noun. Perspiring, uncomfortable or itchy testicles. A spoonerism and literally sweaty bollocks. Also spelt Betty Swallocks and Betty Swollocks.
bevvied up	Adj. Drunk. Occasionally shortened to bevvied.
bevvy	Noun. A general term for an alcoholic drink. Taken from the word beverage. Cf. 'bevvied up'.
bezzy mates	Noun. Best friends. E.g."They've been bezzy mates since they were at nursery together."
bi	Noun. Abb. of bisexual. Adj. Bisexual.
biatch	Noun. A contemptible person, usually woman. Alternative form of 'bitch'. [Orig. U.S. 1990s]
bible basher	Noun. A fanatical preacher of religion. Derog.
bible thumper	Noun. Meaning the same as 'bible basher'.
bicky	Noun. A biscuit.
biddy	Noun. 1. A woman, usually referring to an elderly woman and often reinforced with the word old. E.g."I suggest you don't go to the post office on a Thursday, that's when all the old biddies collect their pension money and the queues are terrible." 2. A head louse, and occ. any skin/hair parasite such as a flea. Usually in the plural, as biddies. E.g."First day at school and my youngest came home with a head full of biddies." Adj. Small.
biff	Verb. To hit. E.g."He biffed his head on the low ceiling." Noun. The vagina.
biffa	Noun. An ugly person, often assumed to be overweight, but also heard as fat biffa. Derog.
biffin's bridge	Noun. The perineum; the area between the anus and the vulva, or scrotum. Cf. 'biffon'
biffon	Noun. The perineum. The place where the man's testicles would hit (see biff) during vigorous sexual intercourse. Cf. 'biffin's bridge'.
biftah *	Noun. 1. A cigarette. 2. A marijuana or cannabis cigarette. * Also bifta
big cheese	Noun. A very important person.
big deal!	Exclam. A sarcastic exclamation for not being very impressed.
(the) big E	Noun. Dismissal, rejection. From the metaphorical use of elbow (E), in rejecting someone. See 'give someone the elbow'.
big girl's blouse	Noun. A feeble and ineffectual person. Derog.
big it up	Verb. See 'big up'.
big style	Adj. Greatly. E.g."Yeah she's into him big-style."
big time	Noun. The upper levels of power, success. E.g."She's hit the big time with getting that fifty thousand pound contract." [Orig. U.S.] Adv. Greatly, very much.
big up	Verb. To praise, to acclaim. Also to big oneself up or to big it up. [Orig W.I.]
big white telephone	Noun. The toilet; not the room itself, but the toilet bowl. Usually combined with various terms to express the action of vomiting, i.e. talking down the big white telephone, or talking to God on the big white telephone etc.
bike	Noun. A promiscuous woman, often with respect to the immediate district or locality. Derog. Cf. 'town bike'.
bilge (water)	Noun. Nonsense, rubbish. E.g."You are talking absolute bilge!"
(the) Bill	Noun. The police. Cf. 'old bill'.
bills	Noun. Underwear. Rhyming slang on Bill Grundy's, meaning undies. Bill Grundy, a British TV presenter, infamous for his provoking punk band, the Sex Pistols, into swearing on live TV, on the Today programme in 1976. [North-west/Merseyside use]
billy	Noun. Amphetamine Sulphate. Abb. of 'Billy Whizz', a cartoon character from the children's magazine Beano; Billy Whizz does everything with exceptional speed and energy. Cf. 'whizz'.
billy goat	Noun. A coat. Rhyming slang.
Billy no mates	Noun. A person who appears to have no friends. Derog.
billy-o	Adv. A lot, greatly, quickly etc. E.g"She's been moaning like billy-o all morning, wanting me to hang out the washing, clean the car, do the hoovering, mow the lawn, I've had enough."
billy willy	Noun. A shrivelled penis, from imbibing amphetamine sulphate or other drugs that cause such a physiological reaction. See 'willy' and 'billy'.
bimble	Noun. An ambling walk. E.g."I'm just going for a bimble to the shops, back in 20 minutes." Verb. To wander aimlessly, to amble.
bimbo	Noun. A young attractive, empty headed woman. Derog.
bimmer	Noun. A BMW car. Cf. 'beemer'. [Orig. W.I. / Black]
bin	Verb. To throw away, to discard.
bin-bag	Verb. To terminate a relationship. From the returning of possessions in a big bag, a disposable bag made of black polythene. E.g."I didnt come home until the next morning, and with lipstick on my shirt collar, I was promptly bin-bagged." [Merseyside use]
binge	Noun. A spree, often involving food or alcohol. Verb. To go on a spree.
bingo wings	Noun. Fatty, folds of flesh on the underarms of overweight women, who might commonly be seen at Bingo nights. [1990s]
bin lid	Noun. An adolescent. Rhyming slang for kid.
binnie	Noun. A refuse collector. A variation on 'binman'. Also binno.
binman	Noun. A refuse collector, a dustbin man.
bin off *	Verb. 1. To discard, throw away. 2. To terminate a relationship. * Both are North-west England usage.
bins	Noun. Spectacles.
bint	Noun. A woman. From the Arabic 'bint' meaning girl or daughter.
bird	Noun. 1. A female. Use can be taken as offensive. E.g."Did you see that bird at the back of the bus!" 2. A girlfiend, when used in conjunction with a possessive pronoun, such as my bird. 3. Time spent in prison. E.g."I did 20 years bird before I learnt how to control my temper and keep out of trouble."
birdbrained	Adj. Stupid, lacking commonsense. {Informal}
birmingham screwdriver	Noun. A hammer.
biscuit arsed	Adj. Dirty, filthy. Also biscuit ersed, from Scottish pronunciation. [Mainly Scottish use]
bit	Noun. A woman. Abb. of 'bit of fluff' or 'bit of skirt', generally a person viewed sexually. Derog.
bitch	Noun. 1. A contemptible woman. Used on the gay scene to describe an equally despised male. 2. A woman. Derog/Offens. 3. A girlfriend. Derog/Offens. [Mainly black use] 4. Something difficult or unpleasant. E.g."It's such a bitch, having nowhere warm and dry to sleep." 5. A complaint or disparaging tirade. E.g."Have you been having a bitch about me behind my back?" Verb. To speak disparagingly, complain.
bitchin (!) *	Exclam. Excellent! Wonderful! Cool! Adj. Excellent, cool. E.g."She was wearing a bitchin pair of shoes, but that hat was just awful." * Also bitching.
bitch piss	Noun. Sweet, ready-mixed fruit and alcohol drink. Cf. 'alcopop' and 'tart fuel'.'
bitch tits	Noun. 1. Overly developed fatty deposits on the male breasts, the medical condition of gynecomastia. Term can be heard on the bodybuilding scene, the condition being one of the consequences of steroid abuse. 2. As the above, having fatty breast tissue, but due to excessive drinking of beer. Cf. 'beer tits'
bit of all right	Noun. Something excellent. Often heard used with reference to a sexually attractive person. E.g."She's a bit of alright! I'm going to ask her for a date."
bit of fluff	Noun. A sexual partner.
bit of rough	Noun. A sexual partner below one's normal standards or believed class.
bit of skirt	Noun. A woman or women. A male expression for females viewed sexually. Also abbreviated to 'skirt'. Derog.
bit of spare	Noun. A sexually available person.
bit of stuff	Noun. A sexually desirable person or persons.
bit on the side	Noun. 1. A sexual relationship extra to one's usual partner, an affair. 2. The other person in a sexual affair.
bits	Noun. A euphemism for the genitals, male or female.
bits and bats	Noun. Miscellaneous items. Cf. 'bits and bobs'.
bits and bobs	Noun. Miscellaneous items. {Informal}
biz	Adj. Rubbish, nonsense. E.g."Don't go and see that new amateur play at the theatre, it was biz." Noun. Abb. of business. See '(the) business'
bizzies	Noun. The police. Possibly derived from the expression busy body. [North-west use]
BJ	Noun. Oral sex. An abb. of 'blow job'.
blabbermouth	Noun. A person who reveals too much in conversation, a gossip.
black over Bill's mothers	Phrs. It looks as though it's going to rain. [E. Midlands use]
black as Newgate's knocker	Phrs. Very black.
bladdered	Adj. Drunk.
blag	Verb. To lie, or use clever talk with profit as an objective, to wheedle or persuade for gain. E.g."I blagged a lift to work with my sister but had to get the bus home." Noun. 1. A con, a 'scam'. 2. A violent robbery or raid.
blag artist	Noun. A person with a reputation for using clever talk for self gain.
blagger	Noun. 1. A robber, especially of banks, and often with the use of a weapon or violence. 2. See 'blag artist'.
blank	Verb. To rudely ignore. E.g."Despite being introduced 5 minutes earlier, he just blanked me and continued talking.."
blaps	Noun. Diarrhoea, the illness.
blart	Verb. To cry. [Midlands use]
blast (!)	Noun. 1. An inhalation of a cigarette or 'joint'. E.g."Give us a blast on your cigarette, I've just run out." 2. An enjoyable experience. [U.S.] E.g."Wasn't the party last night a blast?" 3. A fast run in a vehicle. E.g."We're going for a blast up to the coast to get some fresh air." Exclam. An exclamation of annoyance.
blates	Adj./Adv. Blatantly, blatant.
blathered	Adj. Drunk. E.g."Phil was blathered and we had to carry him home." [Mainly Yorkshire use]
blatts	Noun. Diarrhoea, the illness. E.g."I daren't leave the house, I've got the blatts."
blaze	Verb. To set alight. Usually with respect to the lighting of cigarettes and marijuana cigarettes, 'joints'.
blazed	Adj. Very intoxicated, or high, on marijuana or cannabis.
blazin'	Adj. Smoking marijuana or cannabis.
bleeder	Noun. A person, more often than not one who is objectionable.
bleeding	Adv. Used as an intensive. E.g."That bleeding idiot from next door is drunk again."
bleed like a stuck pig	Vrb phrs. To bleed profusely.
bletch	Noun. Mechanical lubricating oil. [Mainly Crewe use]
blighter	Noun. An insignificant or objectionable person. E.g."This blighter approaches me and asks for a cigarette; sure I say, and then he has the gall to put it in his pocket and says he'll smoke that later and then asks for another to have now." {Informal}
Blighty	Noun. Affectionate name for England as one's home, often used jocularly. Orig. used by colonial Indian Army, from the Hindustani bilyati, meaning foreign. [Early 1900s]
blim	Noun. A red hot fragment of cannabis that occasionally fall from lit cannabis cigarettes. Cf 'blimp'.
blim burn	Noun. A scorch mark or hole in fabrics and clothing, created by a burning crumb of cannabis. See 'blim'
blimey!	Exclam. An exclamation of surprise. An abbreviated form of blind me. Cf. 'cor blimey'.
blimey o'reilly!	Exclam. An exclamation of surprise.
blimp	Noun. A red hot fragment of cannabis that will occasionally fall from alight 'joints', causing small burns to skin, clothing and furnishings. E.g."You could tell he was a heavy smoker, cos he had little holes all over his t-shirt from blimps."
blinder	Noun. An excellent achievement. E.g."Tim's played another blinder." {Informal}
blinding	Adj. Excellent, wonderful. E.g."We had a blinding time last night."
blindo	Adj. Extremely drunk. From blind drunk.
bling	Noun. Abb. form of 'bling bling'.
bling bling	Noun. 1. Jewellery. There's been much speculation as to its origins, including amongst those suggestions put forward are the following:  · From either the sound of jewellery knocking against jewellery.  · The sound of cash registers when a sale is made.  · The written sound in cartoons when light catches and reflects off jewellery. What does appear to be acknowledged is that the expression was popularized by U.S. rapper B.G. (aka Baby Gangsta) in 1999. [Orig. Black U.S.] 2. Obvious and appealing wealth, by extension of meaning 1.
bling up	Verb. To make showy and visually ostentatious. E.g."I blinged up my car so that I'd get some female attention."
blinking	Adj./Adv. Used as an intensifier, but a particularly mild expression. E.g."Your blinkin' washing machine has broken down again." or "It's blinkin' heavy, this washing machine".
blinkin' heck!	Exclam. An old fashioned inoffensive exclamation of surprise, often expressed without the 'h'. Also 'heck' can be replaced with 'hell'.
blithering	Adj. 1. An intensifier such as 'bloody'. E.g."How can I have toast when that blithering idiot has just eaten all the bread!" 2. Senseless and excessive talking. {Informal}.
blither on	Verb. To talk incessently and boringly. Blither is a varient spelling of the s.e.blather. E.g."Please stop blithering on, your voice is driving my crazy." {Informal}
blitzed	Adj. Very intoxicated, drunk.
bloater	Noun. A fat and unnattractive person. Derog.
blob	Verb. To bleed through menstruation. E.g."She was blobbing and still wanted sex, but I'm not keen on blood." Cf. 'on the blob'.
blob strop	Noun. Of females, a fit of anger brought on through premenstrual tension.
blog on	Noun. A bad mood.
bloke	Noun. A man.
blonde moment	Noun. A moment of stupidity. Based on the misguided belief that blondes are considerably less intelligent than those with other hair colours. Derog.
blood	Noun. A friendly term of address. Orig. Black use for addressing a fellow Black.
blood and sand!	Exclam. An exclamation of surprise or anger. A mild and antiquated curse.
bloodsports	Noun. Sexual acts with a woman during the period of her menstruation.
bloody	Adj. Expressing annoyance as an intensifier. E.g."That bloody idiot needs a good thumping." Adv. As an intensifier. E.g."I'll bloody thump that idiot."
bloody hell!	Exclam. An exclamation of surprise or frustration.
bloody-Nora!	Exclam. An exclamation of surprise or anger. Cf. 'flaming-Nora!' and 'ruddy-Nora!'
bloomer	Noun. A mistake. {Informal}
blooming	Adj./Adv. An intensifier. E.g."It's blooming cold outside!"
blooter	Verb. To kick a ball forcefully, often implying without good control. [Scottish use]
blootered	Adj. Drunk. [Scottish use]
blotto	Adj. Very drunk. [Early 1900s]
blow	Noun. Cannabis or marijuana. It's interesting to note that in the U.S. it refers to cocaine. [1960s]
blow a fuse / gasket	Vrb phrs. To be very angry.
blow away	Verb. 1. To kill. 2. To amaze. Cf. 'blow one's mind.'
blowback	Noun. A method of sharing a 'joint' between two people, with one person blowing and the other inhaling.
blow chunks	Verb. To vomit. E.g."" Suzanne's been blowing chunks all night so I don't expect her to want any breakfast." [Orig. U.S.]
blower	Noun. The telephone. From the 'speaking tube', down which one blew to attract a person's attention prior to having a conversation through it. {Informal}
blow it!	Exclam. A dismissive exclamation of frustration and anger.
blow job	Noun. Fellatio or cunnilingus. [Orig. U.S.]
blow it!	Exclam. An exclamation of anger or frustration.
blow its tits off	Vrb phrs. To be very windy or blustery. E.g."It's still blowing its tits off this morning so we wont be able to go sailing into the bay." [Mainly/Orig. sailing use]
blow-off	Verb. To break wind, but not belching. E.g."As boys seem to spend all night blowing off, I recommend you avoid cleaning their dorm until later in the morning."
blow one's mind	Vrb phrs. To cause to be utterly confused or amazed, originally when on hallucinogens. E.g."That trip was too much, it just blew my mind." [1960s]
blow one's top	Vrb phrs. To explode with fury.
blow one's wad	Vrb phrs. To ejaculate semen. E.g."It was disgusting, he blew his wad all over my breasts."
blow out	Noun. An excessive spree of drinking, eating, spending or sex. Verb. To cancel an arranged meeting with someone, or an planned event, unreasonably or without due notification. E.g."I'm going to blow out my brother's birthday party and go to that new club night instead."
blow the gaff	Vrb phrs. To reveal a plot or secret. {Informal}
blow the whistle on	Vrb phrs. To inform on.
blub	Verb. To sob. Possibly onomatopoeic. [Mid 1800s]
blud	Noun. A form of address. Alternative spelling of 'blood'. See 'blood'.
blue arsed fly	Noun. See 'like a blue arsed fly'.
blue rinser	Noun. An elderly lady, a lady pensioner. From the habit of some of this particular age group having their hair died with a hint of blue.
bluey	Noun. A £5 note (sterling). Because of its colour.
blunt	Noun. A marijuana/cannabis cigarette. More specifically, especially in the U.S., a blunt is marijuana rolled in the outer leaves of a cigar.
blunted	Adj. Intoxicated by marijuana. From the term 'blunt', .
blurt	Noun. The vagina.
boaby	Noun. Penis. [Glasgow use]
boak	Verb. To vomit. [Mainly N. England/Scottish use]
boat	Noun. Face. From the rhyming slang boat race.
bob	Verb. To visit briefly. E.g."I'm just gonna bob down to the corner shop for some fags, do you want anything?" Noun. 1. A shilling in pre-decimal currency which now amounts to 5 pence. 2. A sex toy, a vibrator. An abbreviation of battery operated boyfriend.
Bob (and hit) *	Noun. Excrement. Verb. An act of defecation. * Rhyming slang on shit.
bobbins	Noun. Rubbish, nonsense, useless. Manchester rhyming slang for rotten, from bobbins of cotton. E.g."That meal was bobbins, next time we'll eat at home."
bobbinsed	Adj. Drunk, intoxicated. [Manchester use]
Bobby	Noun. A policeman/woman. The name derives from the pet form of the Christian name of Sir Robert Peel, who established the present British police organisation. {Informal}
bobby-dazzler	Noun. A amazing thing or person. {Informal}
bobfoc	Acronym. A facially unattractive female, who possesses a sexually desirable body. From body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch; both TV programmes.
Bob (Hope)	Noun. Marijuana or cannabis. Rhyming slang for 'dope' (noun 2).
bo-boes	Noun. Sleep. Generally a children's expression.
Bob's your uncle	Phrs. There you have it; a catch phrase expressing satisfactory completion. E.g."Make sure you have primed and undercoated the wood. Then apply the gloss paint and Bob's your uncle! The wood will stay protected and look good for another couple of years."
bobtail	Verb. To drive an articulated lorry (HGV) without a trailer and cargo. [HGV drivers vernacular]
bod	Noun. A person. {Informal}
bodge	Verb. 1. To do a poor job or repair. 2. To cobble (something together). E.g."I bodged together that furniture out of driftwood and old egg boxes." * Compare with 'botch'.
bodge job	Noun. A job done poorly, something cobbled together, a makeshift repair. * Compare with 'botch job'.
bof	Noun. A contemptible, old person. Acronym of boring old fart.
boff	Verb. 1. To break wind, 'fart'. 2. To have sex (with).
boffin	Noun. 1. A person involved in scientific/technical research, usually associated with the wearing of white laboratory coats, glasses, and carrying a clipboard. Derog. {Informal} 2. An intellectual.
bog	Noun. A toilet. [1800s]
bog all	Noun. Nothing, or a total lack of. E.g."We've bog all chance of winning without our captain and best player."
bogart	Verb. To selfishly hold on to (something). Jocular usage, heard amongst smokers of cannabis/marijuana. E.g."Come on Tim, don't bogart that joint, we all want to get stoned sometime tonight."
bogey	Noun. A tiny ball of nasal mucus.
bog-eyed	Adj. Bleary or tired looking eyed, either from too little sleep or intoxication by drink or drugs.
boggin	Adj. Unpleasant, vile, ugly. [Orig. Scottish]
bog off (!)	Verb. To go away. Exclam. Go away! Leave me alone!
bog-roll	Noun. Toilet paper. See 'bog'.
bog-standard	Adj. Normal, average, usual. E.g."It was just a bog-standard Christmas, too much food, too much booze and not enough sleep."
bogtrotter	Noun. An Irish person. Derog/offens.
boiler	Noun. An unattractive woman. Often phrased as old boiler for added derogatory emphasis. Derog.
boke	Verb. To vomit. [Scottish/Northern Irish use]
Bolivian marching powder	Noun. Cocaine. Humourous use.
bollix	Noun. Alternative spelling of 'bollocks'.
bollock	Verb. To reprimand. E.g."My dad bollocked me for stealing money from his wallet! I was only borrowing it." Noun. A testicle.
bollockbag	Noun. The scrotum and testicles.
bollock-brain	Noun. Idiot, imbecile. Derog.
bollocking	Noun. A severe reprimand.
(the) bollocks	Noun. The best, a thing or situation of excellence. Abb of 'dog's bollocks'.
bollocks (!) *	Noun. 1. Testicles. S.e. until mid 1800s. 2. Rubbish, nonsense, drivel. E.g."That film was bollocks." Exclam. An expression of anger, frustration, or defiance. * Also written as bollox or bollix.
bollocksed	Adj. 1. Worn out, ruined, tired. 2. Very intoxicated.
...bollocks off	Phrs. Suffixal use expressing the extreme or excessive nature of an action. For example, "I ran my bollocks off but still came last."
bollock (something) up	Vrb phrs. To make a mistake, to mess something up.
bollocks to that!	Exclam. A defiant exclamation.
bollox	Noun. Alternative spelling of 'bollocks'.
bolshie	Adj. Angrily provocative. Originating from the socialist revolutionaries the Bolsheviks.
bomb	Noun. 1. Another name for burning cannabis fragments. See 'blimps' for a fuller explanation. Variations include bombies and bombers. 2. A small quantity of illicit drugs wrapped in a handrolling cigarette paper, forming a pill like ball. Made either for easier consumption at a later date or to avoid the bitter taste of the drugs when loose. 3. As, the bomb, meaning excellent, the best. [Orig. U.S.] Verb. To travel or move quickly. E.g."Will you bomb round to the corner shop and get a pint of milk?" {Informal}
bombed out	Adj. Incapacitated by drink or drugs. Also shortened to 'bombed'.
bommie night	Noun. Bonfire night, see 'bonnie night'. Possibly spelt bombie night from the use of fireworks. [East Lancashire/Merseyside use]
bonce	Noun. The head.
bone	Verb. To have sexual intercourse. Noun. The act of having sexual intercourse.
bonedome	Noun. A protective helmet, such as a motorcycle helmet.
bonehead	Noun. 1. A stupid person. 2. Of a person, having a shaved head.
boner	Noun. An erect penis.
bone up	Verb. To study hard. E.g."I've been boning up on my highway code - my driving exam is next week." [Orig. US]
bong	Noun. A water pipe used for smoking cannabis or marijuana.
bongo mag	Noun. A pornographic magazine. Abbreviated form of the less commonly heard bongo magazine.
bonk	Verb. To fornicate. An inoffensive expression, generally used more by adolescents. Noun. A sexual act.
bonkers	Adj. 1. Crazy, insane. E.g."He must be bonkers! Imagine going out and getting drunk before meeting his girlfriend's parents for the first time." [Early 1900s] 2. Eager for, crazy for.
bonnie	Noun. A bonfire.
bonnie night	Noun. Bonfire Night. An annual celebration of the foiling of an attempt to blow up The Houses of Parliament in 1605.
boob	Noun. 1. A mistake. Cf. 'booboo'. 2. A breast. See 'boobs'.
boobicles	Noun. Women's breasts. Affectionate usage, often implying small breasts.
boobies	Noun. Breasts. Humorous usage.
boob job	Noun. Breast enhancement by plastic surgery.
booboo	Noun. A mistake. E.g."Oh no! I've just made a classic booboo". Cf. 'boob'.
boob tube	Noun. 1. The television. [Orig. U.S. 1950s] 2. A tight, strapless top worn by females that is a basic tube of material. {Informal}
boobs	Noun. Breasts. Can be used singularly, as boob. [Mid 1900s]
boogie	Noun. A dance, usually to pop music. Verb. To dance.
book	Adj. Cool, excellent. Teen and adolescence vernacular, derived from the first choice of words offered on a mobile phone (cellphone) when texting the word cool with predictive text . [2000s]
boom!	Exclam. A form of verbal appreciation, sounding more like boo!. Also spelt booom! Originally from the Black UK garage scene? [1990s]
boonies	Noun. Rural areas, the countryside. Abb. of boondocks. [Orig. U.S.]
boot	Noun. 1. An unattractive person. 2. As the boot, meaning the 'sack', termination of employment. See 'give one the boot.'
bootneck	Noun. A Royal Marine. [Military use]
booty	Noun. The buttocks. Mainly black use. [Orig. U.S./Black]
booty call	Noun. A call to arrange a sexual rendezvous. Mainly black use. [Orig. U.S./Black]
bootylicious *	Adj. 1. Of a woman, sexually attractive. [Orig. U.S./Black] 2. Having a sexually desirable bottom, usually full and well rounded. [Orig. U.S./Black] * The expression, in this form, was popularize by Beyonce Knowles in the song of the same title she wrote for, and performed with, Destiny's Child. Its first appearence in the media was in the U.S. sitcom A Different World in 1993.
booze	Noun. Alcoholic drink. {Informal}
booze cruise	Noun. A boat trip (usually just one day) to mainland Europe, in order to purchase the considerably cheaper alcohol (and cigarettes) than is available in Britain.
boozer	Noun. 1. A public house, a bar. {Informal} 2. A person who enjoys regularly drinking alcohol. {Informal} 3. An alcoholic. {Informal}
booze-up	Noun. A drinking spree.
boracic	Adj. Poor, having no money. Rhyming slang for 'skint', from boracic lint, an ointment, pronounced borrassic. Also heard as brassick. E.g."I can't come out for a drink, I'm boracic until I get paid next Friday."
bored out of one's skull	Phrs. Extremely bored.
bore off (!)	Verb./Exclam. Go away, a general dismissive exclamation.
bore rigid	Verb. To utterly bore. E.g."He bores me rigid with his tales of wealth, fame, and his sexual conquests."
bore shitless	Verb. Bore completely. E.g."I was bored shitless by her talking non-stop about her family."
bore stiff	Verb. Bore completely.
bore the pants off (someone)	Vrb phrs. To bore someone greatly. E.g."That 8 hour seminar on nuclear physics bored the pants off me." The suffixal ..the pants off is often used as an negative intensifier, e.g."He just mithered the pants off me all morning." Similar idiomatic intensifiers are '..the tits off'and '..the arse off'.
bore the tits off (someone)	Vrb phrs. Meaning the same as 'bore the pants off (someone)'.
bosh	Noun. Nonsense, rubbish. Verb. To take orally, to imbibe. E.g."She boshed 7 pills, a handful of mushrooms and 8 vodka and tonics in the first hour, and then not surprisingly she threw up." [London use]
boss	Adj. Excellent, good. [Orig. U.S.]
boss-eyed	Adj. Cross-eyed or having a squint. {Informal}
bossyboots	Noun. A person who bosses others around, a domineering person. {Informal}
bost	Adj. Broken. Probably from bust. [W. Midlands use]
bostin	Adj. Great, good, enjoyable. E.g."She had a bostin figure." [W. Midlands use]
botch job	Noun. 1. A makeshift construction or repair. Cf. 'bodge'. 2. A thing done badly. Cf. 'bodge'.
botch (up)	Verb. 1. To build or repair in a makeshift manner. 2. To do something badly. Noun. 1. A makeshift construction or repair. 2. A thing done badly. * All the meanings and uses of 'botch' are informal. Cf. 'bodge'.
bottle	Noun. Courage, confidence. E.g."Johnny's scared, he's lost his bottle." Verb. To smash a bottle into a person's face, very often a beer bottle after a drinking spree.
bottle it	Verb. 1. To lose courage. Also bottle out. See 'bottle'. 2. Shut up! Usually imper.
bottle of chips	Phrs. An unlikely thing. Used in expressions to add emphasis, such as in 'bent as a bottle of chips', 'queer as a bottle of chips', 'mad as a bottle of chips' etc
bottler	Noun. A person who easily gives up, or loses the courage to complete a task. Derog.
bottom burp	Noun. Wind from the anus, a 'fart'. Also abbreviated to botty burp. [1980s]
bottom feeder	Noun. A despicable person.
bottomless pit	Noun. A person with an insatiable appetite for food.
botty	Noun. The buttocks. Also abbreviated to bot. Children's expression.
boulder houlder	Noun. A brassiere. Jocular male usage. Cf. 'over the shoulder boulder holder'. [1950s]
bouncebackability	Noun. The ability to recover quickly from a period of failure, having the ability to bounce back. First coined by Iain Dowie, manager of the Crystal Palace football team. [2004]
bouncer	Noun. A person employed to eject troublemakers from clubs or events. These days they prefer the title of security.
bournville boulevard	Noun. The anus. A British equivalent of the US slang hershey highway. Often heard in phrases such as "take a stroll/trip down bournville boulevard", meaning to engage in anal intercourse. Commonly mispelt as bourneville boulevard. [1990s]
bovver	Noun. Trouble. A corruption of bother, derived from cockney pronounciation.
bovverboots	Noun. Sturdy heavy boots.
bowfin	Adj. Disgusting, unpleasant. [Scottish use]
box	Noun. 1. Anus. 2. Vagina.
box clever	Verb. To act shrewdly or in a manner so as to outwit someone. {Informal}
boxed	Adj. Intoxicated by drugs. Cf. 'off one's box'.
boy dem	Noun. A police officer. Also boydem. [Mainly Black use]
boyf	Noun. Abb. of boyfriend.
boy racer	Noun. A young man who has a penchant for fast cars and reckless driving.
boysie	Noun. Affectionate term of address, usually for a younger male.
bozo	Noun. An objectionable person, an idiot.
brace and bit	Noun. An act of defecation. Rhyming slang on 'shit'.
brad pitt	Noun. 1. An act of defecation. Rhyming slang on 'shit'. [1990s] 2. When plural, as Brad Pitts, meaning a bout of diarrhoea. Rhyming slang on 'shits'. [1990s]
brahms (and liszt)	Adj. Drunk, intoxicated with alcohol. Rhyming slang on 'pissed'. See 'pissed'.
brain	Verb. To hit on the head. E.g."If you don't tidy your room now, I'll brain you."
brained	Adj. Extreme drug intoxication, affecting the mental faculties.
brain fart	Noun. An inability to think clearly, or a moment of forgetfulness. [Orig. U.S.]
brammer	Noun. A person or thing that is outstanding. Also brahma, brama, bramah and bramma. [Mainly West Scottish use]
bran new	Adj. Excellent, respectable. [Scottish/Glasgow use]
brap!	Exclam. Used to express satisfaction, approval or excitement.
brass	Noun. 1. Money. 2. Prostitute. Short for brass nail, rhyming slang for tail, which is itself slang for, amongst other things, a woman and prostitute.
brassed off	Adj. Fed-up, annoyed. E.g."I'm brassed off all this bad weather."
brassick	Adj. See 'boracic'
brass monkeys	Adj. Of the weather or air temperature, very cold. E.g."Wear a hat and scarf, it's brass monkeys out there." See 'brass monkey weather'.
brass monkey weather	Noun. Very cold weather. From the phrase, 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'. Cf. 'brassy' and 'brass monkeys'.
brass-neck	Noun. Impudence, cheek, nerve. Also brass-necked (adj). [Orig. Northern dialect]
brassy	Adj. Very cold. From the phrase, 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'. Cf. 'brass monkey weather'
brast	Verb. To burst. [Lancs/Yorks use]
bray	Verb. To beat up, thrash. [North-east use]
bread	Noun. Money.
breakbeat	Noun. 1. A style of drum patterns originating from jazz. 2. A dance music genre epitomised by speedy 'samples' of breakbeats. Originally 'rave' specific but developed into 'jungle' and 'drum and bass.'
break one's balls	Vrb phrs. To work very hard. [Orig. U.S.]
bredrin	Noun. Friend, brother. From the archaic s.e. brethren. [Mainly Black use]
breeder	Noun. A heterosexual. From the fact that heterosexuals actively procreate, or breed. Derog. [Gay use/ Orig. U.S.]
brekky	Noun. Abb. of breakfast. Also the variant, brekkers.
brer	Noun. A term of address, for a friend. From brother. [Mainly Black use]
brew	Noun. 1. A cup of tea, or more generally a warm drink. 2. Alcoholic drink, usually beer or lager.
brewers droop	Noun. An inability to achieve or maintain a penile erection due to excessive consumption of alcohol.
brew-up	Verb. To make a cup or pot of tea. {Informal}
brick	Noun. A helpful and reliable person. {Informal}
brickie	Noun. Abb. of bricklayer.
brick-it	Verb. To be very scared, terrified. Cf. 'shit bricks'.
brick shithouse	Noun. Something or someone strong and very sturdy, with impressive physique. Usually heard in the phrase 'built like a brick shithouse'.
brief	Noun. A solicitor or barrister. {Informal}
brill	Adj. Excellent, superb. An abbreviation of brilliant. E.g."We had a brill night, dancing for 8 hours." {Informal}
brilliant (!)	Adj./Exclam. Excellent, marvellous. {Informal}
bring off	Verb. To help achieve orgasm.
bristols	Noun. Breasts. From the rhyming slang Bristol City - titty. See 'tit'.
britneys	Noun. Beers. Rhyming slang on Britney Spears. Very popular and recent expression. [Late 1990s]
Britpop	Noun. Abb. of British Popular music. The sound epitomised by guitar based tunes of bands such as Oasis, Blur and Pulp. [Mid 1990s]
bro	Noun. Abb. of brother.
brolly	Noun. An umbrella. {Informal}
broo	Noun. Unemployment bureau or benefits office. An abbreviated form of bureau. E.g."I was laid off work yesterday, so I'm going down the broo to sign on for social security." Cf. 'on the broo'.
Brooky	Noun. An abbreviated name frequently used for the British TV soap Brookside, which ceased transmission in 2003. Cf. 'Corry' and 'Stenders'.
brothel creepers	Noun. Thick rubber soled shoes, fashionable with the Teddy Boys and rockers of the 1950s, and revived in the 1980s.
brown bread	Adj. Dead. Cockney rhyming slang.
browned off	Adj. Upset, fed up, miserable.
browneye	Noun. The anus.
brown hatter	Noun. A homosexual male. Derog.
brownie point	Noun. A hypothetical award for achievement, usually given as a backhanded compliment for sycophantic behaviour.
brown-nose	Verb. To overly praise or behave sycophantically, i.e. to 'arse-lick'. E.g."Tom's in the manager's office brown-nosing - hoping to get that promotion."
brown-noser	Noun. A sycophant.
browns	Noun. Cigarette(s). E.g."Will you pass me a browns, I'm gasping for a smoke." [London use]
brown trout	Noun. A lump of excrement.
brown trouser moment	Noun. An extremely frightening moment.
brown wings	Noun. Of males, getting one's brown wings denotes having had anal sex with someone. A play on the RAF expression earn one's wings. Brown is a commonly used term for things anal or of that part of the anatomy. Usually heard in phrases such as earn/get one's brown wings.
Bruce Lees	Noun. Erect and prominent nipples. A play on words, from Bruce Lee (the actor famous for his Martial Arts skills/films) being a hard Nip (a tough and unyielding person from Japan, or rather oriental, being as Bruce Lee was American born and whose parents were from Hong Kong). See 'hard' and 'Nip'.
Brum	Noun. The City of Birmingham. From the word brummagem.
Brummie	Noun. A native of Birmingham. {Informal}
bruv	Noun. A term of address, usually for a friend. A corruption of brother. [Mainly South-east use]
bubbies	Noun. Female breasts.
bubble	Verb. To inform. From the rhyming slang bubble and squeak meaning speak. E.g."If you bubble me to the boss, I'll lose my job." Noun. A person from Greece. From bubble and squeak, cockney rhyming slang on Greek.
bubble (bath)	Noun. A laugh. Rhyming slang. E.g."You're having a bubble James, if you think I'm going to give you twenty notes."
bubble butt	Noun. A well rounded, sexually attractive bottom. Also bubblebutt.
bubbled	Adj. Found out, discovered. E.g."I can't get any more of those cheap Reebok trainers, I was bubbled hiding ten pairs in my car so lost my job."
bubblehead	Noun. An empty headed and stupid person. [Orig. U.S.]
bucket down	Verb. To rain heavily. The past tense is bucketing down.
bucket fanny	Noun. A large, expansive vagina. Often used in a context that implies promiscuity.
buck naked	Adj. Totally naked. Cf. 'butt naked'
buckshee	Adj. Free, without charge. {Informal}
buck up	Verb. To make happy or more cheerful.
bucky	Noun. Abb. form of Buckfast wine. [Scottish use]
bud	Noun. Marijuana, or occasionally cannabis. Specifically the part of the marijuana plant that is smoked.
budge up	Verb. To move, in order to make room for someone. E.g."Budge up and let Bob sit down."
buff	Adj. Good looking, attractive.
buftie	Noun. A homosexual male. Also bufty. [Scottish use]
bug	Verb. 1. To annoy, to bother. 2. To spy on via a concealed microphone.
bug-eyed	Adj. Having large bulbous eyes.
bugger (!)	Noun. 1. An objectionable person. 2. A person. Also used in a sense of pity, see 'sod'. 3. A situation or event that is difficult or distressing. E.g."It's a real bugger Pete catching the flu on his summer holidays." Exclam. Expressing annoyance or frustration. Verb. To ruin, damage, break. E.g."If I find out it was you that buggered my DVD player, then you can forget borrowing money from us to go on holiday."
bugger about / around	Verb. To mess around, waste time.
bugger-all	Noun. Absolutely nothing at all. E.g."There's bugger-all we can do about it now, the police are here and we're trapped."
buggeration!	Exclam. An exclamation of annoyance or surprise.
buggered	Adj. Worn out, broken, ruined.
buggergrips	Noun. Sideburns, facial hair on the side of a man's face.
bugger(ed) if...	Phrs. Beginning a phrase will mean 'there's no way', such as "bugger if I'm going to volunteer when it'll mean missing the party". It is an abbreviated form of 'I'll be buggered if...'.
buggering hell!	Exclam. Expressing surprise or anger. Also occasionally shortened to bugger hell!.
bugger it!	Exclam. Exclamation of frustration.
buggerlugs	Noun. A term of address, usually affectionate use. [Late 1800s]
bugger me!	Exclam. An exclamation of surprise.
bugger-off	Verb. Get lost, clear off. Usually said in annoyance and in the imper.
bugger that for a game of soldiers	Vrb phrs. A expression of resignation - i.e. there's no way that I'm doing that! Similar sentiments to the expression screw it. E.g."Bugger that for a game of soldiers, I dont care how safe you say it is, I'm not jumping out of a plane at 3,000 feet with or without a parachute." Cf. 'sod that for a game of soldiers'.
bugger-up	Verb. To mess up, to get wrong. E.g."It's no good, we may aswell go home, he's buggered up the evening by getting drunk."
buggery	Adj. Used as an intensifier in denials such as 'did I buggery!' or 'like buggery she did'.
bugger you	Verb. An exclamation of annoyance.
bugle	Noun. Cocaine.
builder's bum	Noun. Describing the top of the buttocks being in sight above the waistline of trousers when kneeling or bending. Stereotypical image of builders.
built like a brick shithouse	Phrs. Large, sturdy, strong. Often said of a person.
bulge	Noun. A euphemism for the male genitals usually from being apparent through clothing.
bull	Noun. Nonsense. A modification of 'bullshit'. [1600s] Verb. To polish, clean. [Military use]
bull dyke	Noun. A masculine lesbian. Typifies the heterosexual necessity to impart male traits in a derogatory fashion, however the term is used and accepted within the scene.
bullshit	Noun. Nonsense, rubbish, egocentric boasting. Cf. 'bull'. Verb. To lie, fib.
bullshitter	Noun. An egocentric boaster, a teller of untruths.
bum	Noun. 1. The buttocks or anus. 2. A objectionable person. 3. A beggar, homeless person. Derog. [Orig. U.S.] Verb. 1. To beg. E.g."Can I bum a cigarette off you until I buy some later?" 2. To bugger, sodomize. Adj. Great, excellent.
bum around	Verb. To mess about, to laze about.
bumbaclot	Noun. An idiot, an objectionable person. Also occasionally spelt bumbaclat or bumbaclut. [Orig. W.I.]
bum-bag	Noun. A small pouch worn around the waist or hips, held in place by a strap or belt, and used to hold valuables and money. The U.S. equivalent is a fanny pack.
bum bandit	Noun. A homosexual male. Derog. Cf 'arse bandit'.
bum-boy	Noun. A homosexual male. Derog.
bum-chum	Noun. A person with an apparently overly close friendship with another person. Although the underlying implication is of homosexuality, the expression is mainly used by children, with little true awareness of the sexual slur they may be imbuing. Derog.
bum cleavage	Noun. The area between the buttocks.
bumf	Noun. Printed documents and papers that are of little interest or importance. Abb. of 'bum fodder'. Cf. 'bumph'.
bumfluff	Noun. Adolescent facial hair growth.
bum fodder	Noun. 1. Printed papers and documents that are of no interest, and are viewed as only being suitable for using as toilet paper. Cf. 'bumf' and 'bumph'. 2. Toilet paper.
bum-freezer	Noun. A short jacket, that doesn't cover one's bottom (bum), and thus leaves it vulnerable to the cold.
bum fuck Egypt	Noun. Somewhere very remote, the middle of nowhere. Less commonly, bum fucked Egypt. Often abbreviated to BFE in the written form, especially as on the Internet. [Poss. orig military]
bummer	Noun. A bad time, a bad experience, a disappointment. [Orig. U.S.]
bum nugget	Noun. 1. Small faecal remnants that have stuck to one's anal hairs. 2. An idiot, contemptible person.
bum-numbing	Adj. Of work, a task, or event, exceedingly tiring or tedious. Also bum-numbingly.
bumph	Noun. Papers or documents, usually of little interest or importance. Short for 'bum fodder'. Cf. 'bumf'. {Informal}
bump into (someone)	Verb. To fortuitously meet with someone.
bump off	Verb. To murder.
bump start	Verb. To help motivate, assist in promoting action. E.g."I think we need to bump start the project with an ideas session."
bump tummies	Verb. To have sexual intercourse.
bump uglies	Verb. To have sexual intercourse. E.g."My mum knows we're bumping uglies but she doesn't mind as long as we are careful."
(the) bum's rush	Noun. Forced ejection or dismissal. [Orig. U.S.]
bum steer	Noun. An imparting of false information.
bumtag	Noun. A faecal deposit that has adhered to the anal hairs of a person or animal.
bumwad	Noun. Toilet paper.
bun	Noun. A smoke, particularly marijuana. From burn. [Orig W.I.]
bunce	Noun. Money.
bundle	Noun. A large quantity of money.
bung	Verb. To give or throw. E.g."Go on, bung her an extra tenner for trying." Noun. A bribe.
bungalow	Noun. An idiot. From not having much up upstairs. Derog.
bun in the oven	See 'have a bun in the oven'.
bunk off	Verb. To shirk one's duties. A common adolescent's term for avoiding school lessons.
bunk up	Noun. Sexual intercourse. E.g."I thought if I brought her drinks all night I'd at least get a bunk up."
bunning	Noun. Smoking marijuana or cannabis. [Orig. W.I.]
bunny boiler	Noun. An obsessive and psychotic woman. Taken from a scene in the film Fatal Attraction. Derog. [Orig. U.S.]
bunny hugger	Noun. An animal lover. Derog.
buppie	Noun. Bread and butter. Usually a children's expression.
burk	Noun. See 'berk'.
burn rubber	Verb. To depart quickly. Derived from burning tyre rubber from excessive acceleration with a motor vehicle.
burp the worm	Verb. To masturbate, of males.
bursting	Adj. Desperately needing to urinate. {Informal}
Burton	Noun. See 'go for a burton'.
bush	Noun. 1. The female genitals, but alluding to the pubic hair. 2. Marijuana.
(the) business	Noun. 1. The best. E.g."That new Mini Cooper from BMW is the business." 2. Sexual intercourse. E.g."I was doing the business with her all night."
bust	Noun. A police raid on a person and/or property. Verb. To raid as in a bust.
bustin	Adj. Eager. Probably a corruption of bursting. E.g."I'm bustin for a pint and a smoke."
bust one's guts	Vrb phrs. To work with great effort.
butch	Adj. 1. Tough looking, masculine. 2. A masculine lesbian.
butchers	Noun. A look. From the Cockney rhyming slang butcher's hook. E.g."Let's have a butchers at it before you put it back."
butt	Noun. The buttocks. S.e from 1400s until 1600s.
butters	Adj. 1. Ugly. [Orig. W.I.] 2. Rubbish, useless, of no value. [Orig. W.I.]
butt fucker	Noun. A homosexual male. Derog.
butt munch	Noun. A contemptible or objectionable person.
butt muncher	Noun. A homosexual male. Derog.
butt naked	Adj. Naked. Cf. 'buck naked'.
butt out	Verb. An impolite request to keep one's nose out of something. E.g."Butt out John, it's none of your business." [Orig. U.S.]
butt pirate	Noun. A homosexual male. Derog. [Orig. U.S.]
butt plug	Noun. A plug, usually made of rubber, for insertion in the anus during sex.
butt ugly	Adj. Very ugly.
butty	Noun. 1. A sandwich. The term originates in the North of England but has gained national use. Also spelt buttie. {Informal} 2. Term of address for a friend. [Welsh use]
buzz	Noun. 1. A telephone call. E.g. "I'll give you a buzz with the details in the morning." 2. A thrill. E.g. "She gets a buzz from being provocative and causing arguments."
buzz along	Verb. A cheery request to hurry off.
buzz-cut	Noun. A short haircut using electric clippers.
buzzin'	Adj. Thrilled and full of energy, often as a result of partaking in illicit drugs.
buzz off (!)	Verb. To go away, to leave. Exclam. Go away!
By gum!	Exclam. An exclamation of surprise or amazement. [Northern dialect]
By (h)eck !	Exclam. An exclamation of surprise. Dialectically the h is dropped. [Northern English use]