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boot

Language; Slang

1. (American) To vomit. This preppie expression is either echoic or is a blend of barf and ‘hoot’. 2. To leave, depart. Like bail, book, break a key term in the argot of street gangs.

booted

Language; Slang

1. (American) Expelled, ‘booted out’ (of school or college). A preppie term of the 1970s. 2. (British) Ugly. One of a set of terms, including busted and kicked, in vogue since 2000 and ...

bop

Language; Slang

1a. To dance ‘Bop till you drop.’ (Record title, Ry Cooder, 1974) 1b. To move in a fast but relaxed way. This usage became popular in Britain in the late 1960s and is still heard. Why don’t we ...

bop

Language; Slang

1. A fast, cool style of modern jazz introduced in the 1940s; also known as bebop. Bop was accompanied by rapid nonsense lyrics and dancing. 2. A dance. A word from 1950s America, ...

bopper

Language; Slang

1. (American) a cool musician, dancer or devotee of bop 2. a teenybopper. This shortened form of the word was especially popular in Britain in the 1970s to describe a vivacious, ...

boracic

Language; Slang

(British) Penniless, broke. The word is a shortening of the rhyming slang ‘boracic lint’: skint. A genuine example of London working-class argot, this term was adopted into raffish ...

born-again

Language; Slang

(British) An intensifying phrase used to prefix another pejorative term, the usage (which may have arisen in armed-services’ speech) is based on the notion of a ‘born-again ...