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Anglish sp. English
Back vb To give one's support to some effort or person. 2. to bet on; wager. 3. to contribute money; bankroll
Back and fill phr To be irresolute, vacillate. 2. to charm a potential victim, often with a lengthy, convoluted patter, before you subject them to a confidence trick.
Backbeat n An underlying theme or quality. 2. one's heartbeat. 3. a secondary beat, in jazz music, that underlies the main theme.
Backbone n Courage.
Backbreaker n A very difficult, exhausting, demanding job or physical task.
Back-burner n The location of an idea, project, suggestion, etc., when it is kept on ready reserve for the time being, as "Put on the Back-burner."
Back-door adj Dishonest, dubious: " a sleazy little back-door business."
Back-dooring n Adultery, infidelity, betrayal.
Back-door man n An adulterer, betrayer, cheat, a bird-dog. 2. an 'illicit' lover, one who sneaks in the back door when the husband is away.
Back-down vb To retreat or recoil from one's position, problem; surrender, retract. 2. concede a loss in an argument.
Backed adv Dead: lying on one's back. 2. dead: on the back of those who carry one's coffin.
Backed-up adj Constipated.
Back-ended adj Eccentric, perverse, strange. 2. not according to the ordinary way.
Back-end-to adj In confusion, in disorder, in chaos.
Backfire vb To react in an expected and untoward manner.
Back forty n An out-of-the-way barren piece of land, often 40 acres in size.
Back-hander n Slap in the face with the back of the hand.
Back-house n A privy, a toilet, a dunny.
Back in the days phr n former times; long ago, in times yore.
Back off phr To stop annoying, bothering or harassing someone. 2 to soften or moderate; relent. 3. to slow down or go easier. 4. to recoil; concede a loss in an argument.
Back out vb To cancel or renege on an arrangement.
Backroom adj Having to do with political, organizational or personal expediency: 'As in a backroom deal."
Back seat adv An inferior position.
Back seat driver n A passenger in a motor vehicle who gives unwanted advice to the driver, hence anyone who offers advice in a field he/she is not qualified.
Back someone up phr To concur with someone; support someone's opinion or view; 2. to be ready to replace or stand in for someone
Back talk n. Retort in anger, heated argument, impudent or disrespectful reply.
Backup n A substitute or stand-in or something or someone ready to step in or replace.
Backwoodsy adj. Uncultivated, unrefined, rustic
Backyard (In One's Own Backyard) phr Used figuratively to denote familiar territory, a field or domain in which one feels comfortable.
Bake n The whole face; also: the mouth and the nose.
Bake vb To smoke weed.
Banestar n Bane-star; an anti-hero.
Barebones n. A skinny persons.
Bare-bones adj Unadorned, spare; austere
Bark n. A cough
Barking irons n. Pistols, guns
Barn-burner n Anything sensational or exciting;
Barnstorm vb To travel about as a politician, preacher or entertainer making short, but dramatic appearances in as many cities as possible.
Beak n. Judge, magistrate. 2. the nose
Bean n. The head
Beat n Rythm
Beat vb To avoid prosecution, fine for a crime. 2. area allocated to a policeman to patrol. 3. Having a tired, exhausted, disheveled look.
Beat adj Tired out, exhausted.
Beat feet phr Get away fast, usually because you have done something wrong.
Beat it phr A command: telling someone to leave immediately. 2. to depart, decamp, flee, escape.
Beat one's brains out phr To labor strenuously with the mind, often with the sense of having failed. 2. to threaten with bodily harm.
Beat-sheet n In tv. and film making, a short summary of a story. 2. in US., a porn magazine.
Beat somebody from their bread phr Swindle, rob, cheat others financially.
Beat the boards phr Dance, especially tap-dance.
Beat-up adj Damaged and battered by age and use: " a beat-up jalopy."
Beat up on phr To attack and damage; criticize harshly, denounce an opponent
Beat n. A reporter's regular run of news sources and places, known as "The Beat"
Beats me intj An exclamation or acknowledgement of not knowing or understanding something.
Beat your gums phr Eat.
Beaver n The female genitals.
Beaver-shooter n A man obsessed with peering at female genitals
Bed-ready adj Sexually aroused; ready to copulate.
Bed-to-breakfast folks phr City dwellers
Bedworthy adj Pertaining to a desirable woman or man, one who is sexually aroused and ready to copulate.
Bedewed pp To be sweating, applies usually to a woman.
Bee-line n. A direct course; the shortest route
Bend out of shape phr Upset, disturb, excite. 2. be high on drugs.
Bee-sting lips n Lips swollen and puffed owing to the over-use of botox.
Bee-sting looks n Face swollen by the too much and too frequent injecting of botox.
Be good phr An interjection wishing salutations on parting
Behind n The ass, rump, buttocks
Be-in n A gathering of people, usually young, where they do nothing in particular
Bell-ringer n A door-to-door salesman. 2. a person seeking political election
Bells and smells phr A style of religious worship emphasizing high ritual, including use of vestments, bells and incense, especially that of High Church Anglicanism or Anglo-Catholicism. Also 'Smells and Bells'
Bells and whistles phr Frills, adornments and other unessential things.
Bell up vb To telephone; ring someone.
Belly-ache phr To complain; also belly-acher
Bellyful n The limit that one can put up with; too much; surfeit
Belly laugh phr A very loud and boisterous laugh, often appreciative
Belly-timber n Food.
Belly up phr As in the phrase: " To go belly up," to die or pass away.
Belt vb To strike, hit, beat. 2 to defeat in battle, to defeat in a sporting event
Belt out vb To sing a song vigorously
Bend vb To steal
Bend someone's mind phr To have a very strong and often upsetting mental sway over someone
Bend over backwards phr To strive earnestly; make a great effort
Bend one's elbow phr To drink often and heavily
Bender n. A drunken spree
Bent adj Of a criminal nature, illegal, unlawful, stolen. 2. aberrant; dishonest
Bent one n A stolen car
Be there phr To measure up to expectations
Be thereabouts phr To do something moderately well
Berth n A position in a sporting team
Bestsellerdom n. The most popular books
Better half n A wife
Bewifed vb Married
Beyond the Stones phr The world outside the so-called famous thoroughfares of a metropolis like London, New York, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Seoul. ('The Stones' referring originally to beyond the paved streets of London in the Victorian era)
Bin chicken n The Australian White ibis, a wading bird.
Bird-dog n. One who steals another person's girl-friend. 2. young man who bereft of a partner of his own, tries to steal a woman from someone else. 3. unscrupulous stock broker's agent who scouts for gullible prospects.
Bit borrower n One who does repay loans.
Bitch shield n A hostile or frosty attitude adopted by a woman to deter unwanted suitors.
Bite vb To rob.
Bite the dust phr To be killed, to die. 2. To go bankrupt, fail
Biters n Teeth, the grinds.
Bit-grinder n A computer.
Bitter-ender n. A person who will not compromise or yield.
Bitter-water n Moonshine; liquor of a high alcohol content
Black-cloud n A doctor who attracts difficult or prolonged cases or an unusually high numbers of code blue calls.
Black gold n. Crude oil, oil, petroleum
Black-out n. Temporary loss of memory; failure of electricity supply
Blackwash n. To magnify defects and give prominence to them
Black work n The mortuary and funeral business and profession.
Blade n A surgeon: dashing, bold, arrogant and often wrong. 2. a knife.
Bleak adj Good looking, attractive.
Bleed vb. To get money out of someone, esp. in the form of a forced contribution
Blood on the moon phr A foreboding: menacing or suspicious situation or event.
Blood-suckers n Lab technicians who take blood samples.
Blossom nose n. A heavy drinker
Blowhard n. A braggart
Blown mind n A gunshot wound to the head.
Blow-off n The finish or the end.
Blow off steam phr To express one's anger forcibly.
Blow on vb To inform on, betray
Blow one up phr Light up a smoke.
Blown the works phr Spill the beans, talk.
Blow up n An argument, fight, dispute. 2 a scandal or controversy.
Blow-wise adj Informed, of understanding, grasp the meaning.
Blue-blower n A patient with severe and chronic lung disease,
Blue-eyed soul n A music genre where Caucasian singers sing soul music.
Blue-pipe n A vein.
Bone bender n. A wrestler
Bone box n The mouth
Bone eater n. A dog
Bonehead n. A stupid person, a dullard. 2. orthopaedic doctor.
Bone idle adj Wilfully and incurably idle, lazy
Bone-stiff adj Dead, deceased.
Boneyard n A cemetery, graveyard; bone-orchard. 2. an emaciated person or animal, esp. a horse
Book-hangover n The feeling experienced when you finish a book and you suddenly return to the real world, but the real world feels incomplete or surreal because you are still living in the 'land' of the book.
Book smart adj Being able to succeed scholastically, and not necessarily in the real world.
Book smarts n Knowledge gained from reading and studying.
Born days n. A lifetime. an intensive form of days, as "In all my born days I have never seen such a sight."
Bow out vb. To withdraw, resign from a contest or life
Box n A safe.
Boxer n A safe blower.
Brain pan n. The head
Brain stealer n. A plagiarist
Brains n. As "The Brains": the boss, the manager, the head, the leaders, innovators.
Bread hooks n Fingers
Bread trap n The mouth.
Breakbone n A wishbone of a chicken, a furcula.
Break even phr To end without winning or losing; to make no profit, to suffer no loss
Breakfast-to-bed folks phr Lazy people
Break the ice phr To take the first step, to be introduced, to begin
Breakup n. Analysis, known as "The Breakup"
Breather n. A short break from physical or emotional strife or turmoil
Bright n Daytime.
Bright in one's books phr Showing mental alertness. 2. good at learning.
Brimstone n A prostitute, (hot stuff).
Brimstome buster n A fire-brand, ranting religious preacher.
Brine hose n The penis
Bringdown n Anything depressing, either a person, thing or circumstances. 2. a humiliation.
Bring down vb To depress. 2. to humiliate. 3. to overthrow, or dismiss.
Broad n. Any girl, a mistress, a prostitute
Broke n. Without money
Broomtown n A city with a predilection for cleanliness. A recent survey named the five cleanest cities in the world: Alberta, Zurich, Luxenburg, Adelaide and Singapore.
Brother-in-law n An intimation that one has been indecorously familiar with another sister.
Brown-bean dust n Coffee.
Brown chalk n Amber.
Brown stoners n. Aristocrats
Brow stones n THe eyes.
Buck vb. To oppose, stand up against
Buck-up phr To brace oneself against illness, to take courage, to become embolden
Buck passer n. A person who avoids work and responsibility by passing it on to someone else
Build-up n. The thread of a story, play, movie which links the various parts. 2. a reputation gained through deliberate use of publicity; artificial publicity
Bull ring n A prison walk.
Burn vb To defraud, hurt financially, hurt emotionally, betray. 2. to electrocute.
Burn n A scathing remark or retort; a particularly cutting insult.
Burn vb To criticise, reprimand, or berate (someone). 2. insult (a person) in a particularly cutting or scathing manner. 3. to execute in the electric chair.
Burned adj Damaged or hurt by the action of others. 2. electrocuted.
Burn down phr To shoot a person
Bury vb To betray
Butter-fingers n One who is clumsy and awkward, often dropping things
By one's lonesome phr Alone, independently, also on one's lonesome
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