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block

Language; Slang

(British) 1. The head. Since the early 1950s this old term has only been used as part of phrases such as 'knock someone's block off' or 'do one's block'. 2. The block solitary confinement. A ...

blocked

Language; Slang

(British) Under the influence of drugs, especially pep pills or amphetamines. This word was popular in the early 1960s among mods, who used it to refer to the state of intoxication ...

bloke

Language; Slang

A man. The most widespread slang term in Britain and Australia from the 1950s, when it superseded ‘chap’ and ‘fellow’, to the 1970s, when ‘guy’ began to rival it in popularity amongst ...

blow

Language; Slang

(American) 1. To leave, go suddenly. A shortening of ‘blow away’. I better blow town before the cops come looking for me. 2. To perform fellatio (upon someone). In this sense the term may ...

blower

Language; Slang

(British) A telephone. A slang term which was common by the 1940s and is still heard. It may originate in ‘blow’ as an archaic term meaning ‘to talk’, or from the habit of ...

blowfurt

Language; Slang

(British) A white person who affects black mannerisms, clothing, etc. A highly pejorative term of uncertain derivation used by black teenagers in the early 1990s; it may ...

blowhard

Language; Slang

A pompous and/or aggressive person, a blusterer. The term seems to have arisen in American speech but is now heard in all English-speaking regions. Puff-bucket is a near synonym.