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bag off

Language; Slang

(British) 1. To have sex 2. To be sexually promiscuous or unfaithful. A working-class usage heard particularly in the north of England since the late 1990s.

bag of fruit

Language; Slang

(Australian) A suit (of clothes). An item of native rhyming slang. all done up in his best bag of fruit.

bags

Language; Slang

1. Trousers. The word has had this meaning since the mid-19th century and survives, usually in a humorous context. 2. as American slang: female breasts.

bald-headed hermit

Language; Slang

(American) The penis. A humorous euphemism now used typically by adolescent males, although the expression seems to have originated in educated British slang of the 19th century. (Also, ...

baldy man

Language; Slang

(Scottish) The penis. To ‘make the baldy man cry’ is to stimulate a male to orgasm. The term was posted on the b3ta website in 2004.

ball

Language; Slang

(American) 1. to have sex (with). An American term which, apart from a brief vogue in the hippy era, has rarely been used in Britain or Australia. Originally an item of black argot, it ...

ball and chain

Language; Slang

A spouse, usually one’s wife. This jocular phrase was heard in English-speaking areas throughout the 20th century and is still sometimes used ironically.