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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 terms were adopted in ...

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 construct, e.g. a hand ...

bachelorette

Language; Slang

(British) A single woman. A humorous categorisation used by students since 2000.

back

Language; Slang

(American) 1. the backside, buttocks, especially if large or prominent. This term from black American usage became popularised via the rap lyrics to ‘Baby Got Back’ by Sir Mix-A-Lot ...

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

Language; Slang

1. To commit adultery (with) ‘In Australia, you’d never get away with some of the things I’ve seen here be- cause you’d get a punch in the mouth. We don’t go in for backdooring someone ...

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 don’t know, but the ...