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blown out

Language; Slang

1. (American) Tired, exhausted or hung over. A high-school and preppie term probably adapted from the following sense. 2. (American )intoxicated or euphoric after taking drugs, ...

blown-up

Language; Slang

(American) 1. Excessive, impressive. An expression used on campus in the USA since around 2000. That party sure was blown-up; there must’ve been two hundred people there. 2. ...

boffo

Language; Slang

A box-office hit; a successful play, musical, movie, etc

boffola

Language; Slang

(American) An uproarious joke or laugh. The word is a form of boff with the Spanish -ola suffix denoting large-scale or extra.

bog

Language; Slang

(British) A mess, disaster. The word occurs in the phrase ‘make a bog of (something)’, popular in the 1980s.

bogan

Language; Slang

(Australian) A member of a social group first identified by journalists in the 1970s, consisting of uneducated working-class young adults, roughly the equivalents of US trailer trash and the more ...

bogart

Language; Slang

To monopolise or fail to pass on a joint or cigarette during communal smoking. This popular hippy term of the late 1960s was prompted by the actor Humphrey Bogart’s habit in films of ...