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binting

Language; Slang

Pursuing or seducing females. A term used by (generally unsophisticated) young males, from the noun form bint.

bio-head

Language; Slang

(American) An unstylish person, a nerd. The expression was recorded in the late 1990s among college students and Internet users.

biotch

Language; Slang

(American) 1. An unpleasant female 2. A female An alteration of bitch in use among students since 2000.

bird

Language; Slang

(British) 1. A girl. A very common term in the late 1950s and 1960s, it is now somewhat dated and considered offensive or patronizing by most women. The word was first a 19th-century term of ...

birdbath

Language; Slang

(British) A silly person. A humorous variant form of the colloquial ‘birdbrain’ typically used since the 1970s by parents and children.

birding

Language; Slang

(British) Pursuing or trying to ‘pick up’ women. A northern English working-class term of the 1960s and 1970s, from the more widespread use of bird.

birf

Language; Slang

(British) Acoy or jocular shortening of ‘birthday’, used typically by teenage magazine journalists since the 1980s.

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