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bong

Language; Slang

A water-pipe for smoking cannabis, strictly one with a carburation hole so that the smoker can add air at will to the smoke. The typical bong is smaller than a hubble-bubble but ...

bonk

Language; Slang

(British) To have sex (with). A vogue word of the late 1980s; first heard in the late 1970s and quickly picked up by the media as a useful, vigorous, but printable euphemism for ...

bonkers

Language; Slang

1. Crazy. A common colloquialism in Britain since the mid-1960s (it seems to have existed in restricted use since the 1920s), bonkers has more recently been adopted by American ...

bonzer

Language; Slang

(Australian) Excellent, great. A word sometimes adopted for humorous use by British speakers. It may derive from bonanza or from Latinate words for ‘good’.

boo

Language; Slang

(American) 1a. A term of endearment, especially towards a partner of either sex 1b. A ‘significant other’, e.g. a partner, girl/boyfriend. An expression used on campus in the USA since around ...

boob

Language; Slang

To blunder, commit a gaffe or error. The verb to boob, based on the earlier nouns ‘booby’ and ‘boob’ in the sense of a fool, has been in use since before World War II, the reduplicated form ...

booby hatch

Language; Slang

A psychiatric hospital. A jocular term, originally from North America. The association with boob and ‘booby’ is obvious; hatch or hutch is an archaic term for many different enclosures ...

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