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breed

Language; Slang

(American) To make (a woman) pregnant. An item of black speech probably originating in the Caribbean. It occurs in the cult novel Yardie (1993) by Victor Headley.

breeze

Language; Slang

(American exclamation) An exhortation to relax, calm down. An expression used on campus in the USA since around 2000. No need to get so aerated – just breeze.

brew

Language; Slang

1. Beer or a drink of beer. A word used by northern British drinkers (usually without the indefinite article) and by American college students (usually in the form ‘a brew’). 2. (British) tea. ...

(British) To be extremely nervous, overcome with fear. A recent usage derived from the vul- garism shitting bricks. ‘Although I was bricking it, when the light came on on top of the camera, it was ...

brief

Language; Slang

(British) 1. A lawyer. Derived from the ‘briefs’, or documents containing a résumé of each case, with which the lawyer is prepared or ‘briefed’. A working-class term used since before ...

brill

Language; Slang

(British) Wonderful, exciting. A teenagers’ shortening of brilliant, used as an all-purpose term of approval since the late 1970s. ‘They are a wicked group and steam up the charts ...

brillo-pads

Language; Slang

(British) Excellent. An elaborated form of brill, used by London schoolchildren from the late 1980s, borrowing the trademark name of kitchen scouring pads.