Slang to English letter B

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B in the D	Back in the Day (Street slang)

Babe-magnet	A person (or alternatively a car) that has the power to attract women. (Street slang)

Baccy	Tobacco (Everybody)

Back End of a Bus (Looks Like)	Ugly person. (Everybody)
'Have you seen that munter? She looks like the back end of a bus.'

Backy	A ride on the back of a bicycle (Everybody)
'Gis a Backy on your bike Joe!'

Bad	Good (Street slang)
'That is well bad, innit!'

Bad job	Unfortunate (Yorkshire)
'You lost a twenty pound note? Hmm, bad job!'

Badman	Criminal or hard-man (Street slang)

Bagsy	To claim for oneself. (Everybody)
'Bagsy me go in the front seat!'

Bairn	Child (Scotland)

Balling	Doing well (Street slang)

Balls-Up	A catastrophic mistake. (Everybody)
'He made a right balls-up of organising our holiday!'

Bang	To have sex with. (Everybody)

Bang Out of Order	To do something that is very wrong. (London)
'The way he spoke to me last night was bang out of order.'

Bang to Rights	To be caught red-handed. To be arrested or caught doing something that you know to be wrong. (London)


Banged Up	To be in prison. (London)
'He got banged up for two years for GBH.'

Banger	Sausage; an old/nearly-broken-down car; (Street slang)
'We're having bangers for tea this Friday!'

Bangers	Women's breasts. (Everybody)

Banging	Very good; very loud (Manchester)
'That party was bangin' mate'

Banjaxed	Confused or confounded (Everybody)

Baps	Breasts. (Everybody)
'Look at the baps on that bird!'

Barking Mad	Very mad (Everybody)

Barking up the Wrong Tree	To be misled or mistaken. (Everybody)
'You think it was me that nicked your car? Sorry mate, you're barking up the wrong tree.'

Barmpot	Idiot/fool (Yorkshire)

Barmy	Mad (Everybody)

Basket	The bulge in a man's trousers (Don't know)

Battleaxe	A fearsome older woman. (Everybody)
'That librarian is a right battleaxe. Always telling me to shush.'

Batts	Shoes (Polari)

Batty Man	Gay man (offensive). (Street slang)

Beak Alternatives	Nose (Everybody)


Beak Alternatives	Judge or magistrate (London)
'I was up before the beak last week.'

Bee’s Knees	Very good. (Everybody)

Beef Curtains	Vagina lips, labia (Street slang)
'I couldn't get my tongue in between her massive Beef Curtains'

Beer coat	Imaginary coat induced by drinking (Everybody)

Beer Ears	The effect of alcohol that makes bad music seem good (Everybody)

Beer Goggles	Imaginary spectacles induced by drinking (Everybody)
'She wasn't all that good looking but I had my beer goggles on.'

Bell	To telephone (Everybody)
'I'll give you a bell later.'

Bell-end	Incompetent, stupid, annoying, or childish person (Everybody)

Bender	Gay person (usually male) (Don't know)

Bent	Illegal or stolen; criminal person; gay or homosexual (Everybody)

Bent as a 3 Bob Watch	Dodgy, fraudulent. )

Bent as a Nine-Bob Note	Homosexual, or very corrupt. (London)
'That market trader is bent as a nine-bob note.'

Berk	Idiot (Everybody)

BF	Boyfriend (Street slang)
'I split up with bf three weeks ago but I can't stop thinking about him.'

Biccie	Biscuit. (Everybody)
'Shall we have a cup of tea a choccy biccie?'


Billy No-Mates	Someone without friends (Don't know)
'Look at me, Billy No-Mates'

Bimble	To walk, especially without any particular plan or direction (Everybody)
'Let's go for a bimble in the countryside'

Bins Alternatives	Spectacles (Cockney)

Bins Alternatives	Glasses (Everybody)

Bint	Female - pejorative. )

Bird	A woman. (London)
'There were three gorgeous birds in the pub last night.'

Bishy Barnaby	Ladybird (Don't know)

Bitching	Cool (Street slang)

Bits and Bats	Various things, assorted objects (Manchester)
'Can you help me move these bits and bats up the stairs please?'

Bits and Bobs	Various things, assorted objects (Everybody)

Bizzies	The police (Liverpool)
'Watch out, the bizzies are coming!'

Black as Newgate's Knocker	Very black (Everybody)

Bladdered	Drunk (Everybody)
'Wow we was completely bladdered last night'

Blag	To rob; to obtain by deception (Everybody)
'I blagged the password for my boss's email account!'

Blagger	Liar (Everybody)


Bleb	Blister (Yorkshire)

Blether	Talk nonsense (Yorkshire)

Blighty	Britain (Street slang)

Blimey	Gosh; general expression of surprise, shock (Everybody)

Blitzed	Very drunk (Everybody)

Bloater	A very fat person (Everybody)

Blob	Kingcup or Cowslip (Yorkshire)

Bloke	Chap (Everybody)

Blood	Brother or close friend (Street slang)

Bloody	Damn (Everybody)

Blotto	Drunk (Everybody)
'Wow you were completely blotto last night'

Blow Off	Fart (Everybody)

Blow Out	Fail to turn up for a meeting (Don't know)
'When Gaynor hadn't turned up by 8:30, Steve knew she had blown him out.'

Blower	Telephone (Everybody)
'Hang on, I'm just on the blower. '

Blud	Mate, friend (Street slang)


Blurt	Vagina (School)

Bob	1 Shilling (5 pence) (Everybody)

Bob’s Your Uncle	There it is; QED; (Everybody)

Bobbins	Bad, rubbish (Manchester)
'We played Bobbins last week.'

Bobby	Police officer (Everybody)
'I just saw this Bobby fall off his bike'

Bobby Dazzler	Attractive girl or woman (Don't know)

Bobkes	Nothing (Jewish)

Bockle	Bottle (Manchester)

Bodge	To make a mess of. (Everybody)
'Those builders who built my extension have made a right bodge-job of it.'

Bog	Toilet (Everybody)
'She's a long time on the bog.'

Bog Roll	Toilet paper (Everybody)

Bogey	Snot (School)
'He 'ad a huge bogey hanging from his nose.'

Boggart	Ghost or Spectre (Yorkshire)

Bogroll	Toilet paper (Everybody)

Bollocks	A highly flexible term commonly used by the English to condemn anything and everything. (Everybody)
'1. That Mel Gibson movie was a load of bollocks. 2. Stop talking bollocks. '


Bombay Belly	Sickness or diarrhoeah caused by Indian food or curry. (Everybody)

Bona	Good (Polari)

Bonce	Head (London)
'He's just got smashed over the bonce with a bottle'

Bong	Pipe for smoking cannabis (Everybody)

Bonk	To have sex (Everybody)

Bonkers	Mad (Everybody)

Bonny	Pretty, attractive (Scotland)
'Ah that's a bonny wee baby'

Bookie	Bookmaker - person or company that accepts bets (Everybody)

Bootsie	Tramp, homeless person (London)
'You bootsie old tramp'

Booze	Alcoholic drink. (Everybody)
'Let's have a party, we'll get some booze and some birds.'

Booze Cruise	A ferry trip from Britain to France with the main purpose of buying cheap/untaxed alcohol (Everybody)

Booze Hound	A heavy drinker; alcoholic (Everybody)

Boozer	Pub (Everybody)
'Going down the boozer for a couple of hours'

Boris	Bike (derogatory term for a woman of easy virtue) (Cockney)
' I had a ride on a Boris last night! '

Bottle	Bravado/bravery (Everybody)
''E's got a lot of Bottle.'


Bovvered	Bothered (Street slang)
'Am I bovvered?'

Boy Racer	Young man who drives too fast, often in an overly flashy car. (Everybody)

Boyo	Male friend (Wales)
'What are you doing boyo?'

Brahma	Very good (London)

Brass	Prostitute (Everybody)

Brass Monkeys	Very cold (Everybody)
'Brr, it's brass monkeys out there.'

Bray	Hit or thrash (Yorkshire)
'I'll bray them kids on of these days!'

Break the Seal	To have the first toilet visit of a session. (Everybody)

Breasticles	Breasts (Everybody)

Bredren	Close friend (Street slang)

Brekkie	Breakfast. (Everybody)
'I had a lovely bacon sarnie for my brekkie today.'

Brew	Tea (drink). (Yorkshire)
'Let's sit down and 'ave a Brew.'

Bro	Brother (Street slang)

Brummie	Person from Birmingham (Everybody)

Bruva from another muther	Close friend/associate. (Street slang)


Buck	To have sex (Irish)

Bugger	Bad or annoying person (Everybody)
'That landlord waters down our pints. What an old bugger.'

Bugger All	Nothing; zero (Everybody)
'I put ten pounds in this fruit machine and got bugger all out.'

Bugging	Crazy or strange behaviour (Street slang)

Builder's Bum	The crack of the arse visible when someone bends over. (Everybody)

bullseye Alternatives	Fifty pounds (Everybody)

Bun in the Oven	To be pregnant (Everybody)
'She's got a bun in the oven, when's it due?'

Bung	A bribe. (Everybody)
'He received a bung of £10000 to lose the boxing match.'

Bunk Off	To play truant (School)
'History lessons are boring, let's bunk off this afternoon.'

Butch	Masculine man or masculine lesbian (Polari)

Butty	Sandwich (Everybody)

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