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bob

Language; Slang

(American) To have sex (with). This fairly inoffensive term, heard among American adolescents, began to be used by younger speakers in Scotland and the north of England in the late ...

bobbins

Language; Slang

(British) Rubbish, worthless items. This usage arose in the north of England, referring originally to the waste bobbins in the wool mills, and is still heard in its generalised sense.

bobby

Language; Slang

(British) A policeman. A widely known nickname, usually applied to constables or uniformed officers. Rarely heard except in jest since the 1960s, the word derived from the Christian name of ...

bobby soxer

Language; Slang

American) A teenage girl. The phrase referred to the short white socks worn as part of a standard ensemble in the 1930s and 1940s. The term itself survived until the 1960s.

bobo

Language; Slang

A ‘bourgeois bohemian’ (person who simultaneously favours materialistic behaviour and ‘alternative’ tastes). The word began to be used in New York in 2001, although it originates in ...

bock

Language; Slang

(British) Bad luck. This obscure term, cited as an example of the jargon of cat burglars, was recorded in FHM magazine in April 1996.

bod

Language; Slang

1. The body. The short form is usually heard in American speech, as in ‘check out his great bod’. In British middle-class speech it refers to an individual, as in ‘odd-bod’. 2. ...