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Of of pertaining to any method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way, whether united in a system specific to a country or region.
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ball-breaker
Language; Slang
1. A very aggressive, dominant or demanding woman 2. An excessively hard taskmaster or martinet 3. an exhausting, demanding task. Compare ball-tearer All these ...
baccy billup
Language; Slang
(British) A cigarette. In playground parlance since 2000. Baccy is an old abbreviation of tobacco; billup may be an alteration of build (up) in the slang sense of ...
bachelorette
Language; Slang
(British) A single woman. A humorous categorisation used by students since 2000.
back-assed
Language; Slang
(American) a. backwards, reversed You got it all back-assed. b. perverse or clumsy a back-assed way of doing things.
backdoor man
Language; Slang
1. A secret lover, especially a married woman’s lover. The term is originally black American slang dating from at least the 1950s. ‘I’m your backdoor man… the men ...
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