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• babbage
  
  ( adj ) Fake. That Rolex is just babbage.
  1990s
• baby
  
  ( n ) Affectionate term of address for either sex. Come on, baby, let's go home.
  1940s
• baby
  
  ( n ) Sweetheart. She's my baby and I'd do anything for her.
  1920s
• baby-doll
  
  ( int ) Female appellation. Come on, baby doll, let's go home.
  1940s
• bacon
  
  ( n ) Money, sustenance. Heddy Wein brings home the bacon in her family.
  1650s
• bad
  
  ( adj ) Excellent, outstanding. Wow, that was really a bad movie; I loved it.
  1970s
• bad business
  
  ( np ) Trouble. You didn't get any financial aid? That's bad business.
  1940s
• bad news
  
  ( np ) Trouble. Stay away from this guy; he's bad news.
  1940s
• badical
  
  ( adj ) Excellent, outstanding. Dude, that move was badical.
  1990s
• bag
  
  ( n ) Favorite thing. What's your bag, man? Let's see if we have anything in common.
  1960s
• bag
  
  ( n ) Problem. What's your bag, man? Get off my back.
  1990s
• bag
  
  ( v ) To miss, to not attend. Let's bag biology today and go to the library instead.
  1970s
• bag
  
  ( v ) To steal, take. Who bagged my bike?
  1980s
• bail
  
  ( v ) To leave. This party's a drag; let's bail.
  1990s
• bail (on)
  
  ( v ) To abandon, to give up on. I'm not going to bail on you when you are in trouble.
  1970s
• ball
  
  ( n ) Great fun. Her class is a ball.
  1950s
• ball
  
  ( v ) To flaunt money or wealth. Check out his Mercedes; he's just balling.
  1990s
• ball-and-chain
  
  ( n ) Marriage. I'm too young to put on the ball-and-chain.
  1980s
• balled up
  
  ( adj ) Confused. Rodney's all balled up; he doesn't know if he is coming or going.
  1920s
• ballistic
  
  ( adj ) Out of control. Frieda went ballistic when she heard she was rejected from Harvard.
  1980s
• baloney
  
  ( n ) Nonsense! That's a lot of baloney and you know it! None of it is true.
  1920s
• bananas
  
  ( adj ) Crazy, insane. The guy went bananas when I asked him to leave.
  1930s
• bang
  
  ( n ) A party. They had a big bang at his place last night.
  1980s
• bang
  
  ( n ) Fun, pleasure. I get a bang out of bungee jumping.
  1930s
• bang-up
  
  ( adj ) Excellent, outstanding. We had a bang-up time at the party last night.
  1810s
• banging
  
  ( adj ) Excellent, outstanding. Man, that's a bangin' new car your mom gave you!
  1990s
• bank
  
  ( n ) Money. He has all the bank he needs.
  1990s
• barf
  
  ( v, n ) To vomit. He barfed all over the seat of the airplane.
  1950s
• bark up the wrong tree
  
  ( vp ) Make a mistake, error. If you think I'm going to help you, you're barking up the wrong tree.
  1830s
• barnacles
  
  ( n ) Glasses. They all had barnacles with handles.
  1560s
• barnburner
  
  ( n ) A person or organization that overreacts, throws the baby out with the bathwater. That Congress was a barnburner that tried to reduce oppressive regulations by removing them all.
  1840s
• barnburner
  
  ( n ) A highly successful event. The poetry reading turned out to be a real barnburner!
  1970s
• barnstorm
  
  ( v ) To make a tour of rural areas. President Clinton was barnstorming for his wife's presidential campaign.
  1840s
• bash
  
  ( n ) A drunken spree. He went out on a bash last night and is pretty sick today.
  1900s
• bash
  
  ( n ) A party. Melanie had a great bash at her house last night.
  1950s
• bash
  
  ( n ) A try, an attempt. Move back and let me have a bash at it.
  1930s
• baste
  
  ( v ) To insult. Maureen really basted me for no reason at all.
  1990s
• baste
  
  ( v ) To thrash soundly. If you call me a wuss again, I'll give you a basting you'll never forget!
  1530s
• bats
  
  ( adj ) Crazy, insane. You're completely bats if you think I'll lend you $5.
  1930s
• battle-ax
  
  ( n ) (Offensive) Mean old woman. That old battle-ax will never be cool!
  1890s
• batty
  
  ( adj ) Crazy, insane. If you think I'm going to get me to date your sister, you're batty.
  1900s
• be history
  
  ( vp ) Defunct, gone, finished. If you are late for work one more time, you are history.
  1970s
• be-bop
  
  ( n ) A dance to fast big band jazz. Harry James was playing and everyone be-bopped till midnight.
  1940s
• bean
  
  ( n ) The head. The picher threw a bean ball and knocked the batter out.
  1900s
• bean
  
  ( n ) The least amount. He doesn't know beans about cars.
  1830s
• bean
  
  ( n ) Coin, a bit of money. Could you pick up the check; I don't have a bean on me.
  1810s
• beans
  
  ( n ) Crap, nonsense. That's just a lot of beans!
  1840s
• bear
  
  ( n ) A patrolman or security guard. Something is going on in Ferket Hall; I just saw two bears go in.
  1970s
• bearcat
  
  ( n ) A sexy or seductive woman. Man, that Cindy Lou is a lot of fun! What a bearcat that woman is!
  1920s
• beat
  
  ( adj ) Bad or in bad condition. That party was kind of beat, don't you think.
  1990s
• beat
  
  ( adj ) Tired, exhausted. After working all day I am really beat.
  1940s
• beat
  
  ( adj ) Turned off, exiled, underground. The Beat Generation and its beatniks withdrew from society because they were beat.
  1950s
• beat
  
  ( n ) Policeman's patrol area. My old man walked a beat for 20 years.
  1720s
• beat
  
  ( v ) Stump, be incomprehensible. It beats me how Snerdley pays for the gas for that car of his.
  1910s
• beat all
  
  ( vp ) Be outrageous. Doesn't that beat all?
  1930s
• beat feet
  
  ( vp ) To leave. Let's beat feet out of here.
  2000s
• beat it
  
  ( v ) To leave. When the cops drove up, we had to beat it.
  1910s
• beat one's gums
  
  ( vp ) To talk. We were just sitting around, beating our gums about nothing.
  1920s
• beatnik
  
  ( n ) Member of the counterculture. He is a beatnik who hangs around the underground coffee shops downtown.
  1950s
• bee
  
  ( n ) A frisbee. Hey, let's hit the quad and throw the bee.
  1980s
• bee's knees
  
  ( np ) Something excellent, outstanding. Mavis, that new perfume you got is the bee's knees!
  1920s
• beef
  
  ( n ) A disagreement, argument. After we ignored Jim we had a beef with his whole crew.
  1940s
• beef
  
  ( n ) A complaint. Why are you complaining? What's your beef?
  1920s
• beef
  
  ( v ) To complain. Stop beefing about the curfew; you can't do anything about it.
  1920s
• beefcake
  
  ( n ) Well-proportioned male. Alan Ladd was considered beefcake in his time.
  1950s
• Beemer
  
  ( n ) A BMW car. He just bought a new Beemer to drive to work in.
  1980s
• beeswax
  
  ( n ) Business. What's my name? None of your beeswax.
  1920s
• beezer
  
  ( n ) A nose. Stan took one on the beezer when he told his wife to get him a beer.
  1910s
• behind the 8 ball
  
  ( pp ) In trouble; disliked by someone. I forgot Mavis's birthday and now I'm behind the 8 ball.
  1930s
• bell-bottom
  
  ( n ) A sailor. She has dated every bell-bottom in San Diego.
  1920s
• bell-bottomed
  
  ( adj ) Flared at the end (pants). In those days all sailors wore bell-bottomed trousers.
  1890s
• bellyache
  
  ( v ) Complain. Stop bellyaching and get to work!
  1880s
• belt
  
  ( v ) To hit hard. Say that again and I'll belt you one in the kisser!
  1830s
• belt
  
  ( v ) To sing out loudly. No one could belt 'God Bless America' like Kate Smith.
  1950s
• belt
  
  ( n ) A drink of hard liquor. After a day like today, I need a belt before going to bed.
  1930s
• bench
  
  ( v ) Remove from action. He was benched during the basketball playoffs.
  1950s
• bender
  
  ( n ) A drinking spree. Every Monday Lucien comes home from a weekend bender.
  1940s
• Benjamin
  
  ( n ) A one-hundred dollar bill. Hey, loan me one of those Benjamins until payday.
  1970s
• bent
  
  ( adj ) Drunk or high on drugs. Jack got bent last night at that party.
  1990s
• bent
  
  ( adj ) Upset, angry. After being bent for so many years, Barry is now a broken man.
  1930s
• bent eight
  
  ( np ) A V-8 engine. He thinks he's hot in his new bent eight.
  1960s
• bent out of shape
  
  ( ap ) Upset, angry. Don't get so bent out of shape.
  1960s
• betty
  
  ( n ) A girl. Elizabeth is nothing special; just another betty.
  1990s
• betty
  
  ( n ) A man who does a woman's work. Aw, you don't want to take a betty like him to the fights.
  1850s
• bi
  
  ( adj ) Bisexual. I don't think he's gay; just bi.
  1960s
• biddy
  
  ( n ) A middle-aged woman. A bunch of old biddies kept us swell guys away from the girls.
  1780s
• big cheese
  
  ( np ) An important person. He thinks that he is a big cheese just because he has a new Oldsmobile.
  1920s
• big daddy
  
  ( np ) An older person. Preston is the big daddy I tell my troubles to.
  1950s
• Big deal!
  
  ( int ) An interjection of dismissal. You sold your car for $500. Big deal! I got $750 for mine.
  1950s
• big gun
  
  ( np ) An important person. The president brought two big guns to the meeting.
  1830s
• big mouth
  
  ( np ) A talkative person. Shut up! You really have a big mouth.
  1880s
• big shot
  
  ( np ) An important person. He thinks that he is a big shot just because he drives around in a Caddie.
  1920s
• big six
  
  ( np ) A strong man. He's a big six in my book any day.
  1920s
• big wheel
  
  ( np ) An important person. Stan thinks that he is a big wheel just because his dad owns the bank.
  1950s
• biggie
  
  ( n ) Something important. It's just ice cream you spilled on my blouse, Marge, no biggie.
  1980s
• bigwig
  
  ( n ) An important person. Imogene Ettasis is a bigwig in the human genome project.
  1700s
• bilk
  
  ( v ) To swindle or cheat. The corporate executives bilked their employees out of millions of dollars.
  1670s
• bill and coo
  
  ( v ) To hug and kiss. Don't you just love to bill and coo with your girl on the beach?
  1930s
• bimbo
  
  ( n ) A mistress. Estelle's mother left her dad when she found him fooling around with some Italian bimbo.
  1960s
• bimbo
  
  ( n ) A tough guy. Max is just another bimbo who goes around trying to pick fights in bars.
  1910s
• bird
  
  ( n ) An eccentric. You never know what that old bird is going to do next.
  1920s
• biscuits
  
  ( n ) Dirty, worn-out shoes. Look at that boy's biscuits.
  1990s
• bit
  
  ( n ) An act, a part in something. I did my bit for the recovery effort when I helped clean out flood victims' houses.
  1960s
• bitchin
  
  ( adj ) Excellent, outstanding. She just got a real bitchin car.
  1980s
• bite
  
  ( v ) To be bad. This job bites.
  1990s
• biz
  
  ( n ) Business. Well, that's show biz.
  1940s
• blab
  
  ( v ) To inform or tattle. Fritz blabbed to my parents about the other night.
  1600s
• blabbermouth
  
  ( n ) Someone who talks too much. That blabbermouth told my girlfriend that he saw me with another girl.
  1930s
• black-and-white
  
  ( n ) Police car. He was surprised to see his house surrounded by black-and-whites when he arrived home.
  1940s
• blackball
  
  ( v ) To exclude from contact; to ostracize. They blackballed Harry Krashner from the Heaven's Devils motorcycle gang when someone saw him riding a ten-speed.
  1770s
• blackhead
  
  ( n ) Pimple. His beard is coming out now and his blackheads are going away.
  1950s
• blah
  
  ( adj ) Apathetic, indifferent. I feel so blah after taking five midterms in one day.
  1940s
• blamed
  
  ( int ) Emphatic adjective. Hey, get your blamed hand off me!
  1830s
• blast
  
  ( n ) A great time, something hilarious. We had a blast at Harriet's last night.
  1970s
• blast
  
  ( v ) To shoot. I don't have anything to do with the mob; that's a good way to get yourself blasted.
  1940s
• blasted
  
  ( adj ) Accursed. That blasted car of his never starts when he needs it.
  1680s
• blasted
  
  ( adj ) Drunk, intoxicated. She was so blasted she couldn't tell her right hand from her left.
  1970s
• blasted
  
  ( adj ) Emphatic adjective (substitute for damn). I wish Alonzo would keep his blasted nose out of my business.
  1680s
• blessed
  
  ( adj ) Emphatic adjective. He didn't say a blessed word all night.
  1800s
• blimp
  
  ( n ) A very fat person. I hate to have a blimp sitting next to me when I fly.
  1930s
• blind date
  
  ( np ) A date you have never met before. The bonehead never went out on blind dates because he thought they were with girls who couldn't see.
  1920s
• bling
  
  ( n ) Glitter from so much jewelry. Check you out all the bling on David tonight.
  1990s
• bling-bling
  
  ( n ) Lots of jewelry or luxury in general. Did you see all the bling-bling in Donald Trump's house on TV?
  1980s
• blingy
  
  ( n ) Shiny, sparkly. She looks like a proper tart in that blingy outfit she is in.
  2000s
• blitzed
  
  ( adj ) Drunk, intoxicated. He was so blitzed he couldn't find his shoes.
  1950s
• blivet
  
  ( n ) Something unimportant or indescribable. We need a blivet to get this thing to work and I have no idea what kind.
  1940s
• blockhead
  
  ( n ) A stupid or foolish person. Don't let that blockhead hold the money; he'll lose it for sure.
  1550s
• blog
  
  ( n ) A web log, a web journal. He keeps a blog on his website.
  1990s
• blonde moment
  
  ( np ) A stupid act or move. Don't mind me, I'm having a blonde moment.
  1990s
• blood
  
  ( n ) Friendship. I don't do anything without him; we're blood.
  1980s
• blotto
  
  ( adj ) Drunk. Smedley came home blotto so often, it was a month before he realized his wife had left him.
  1910s
• blow
  
  ( v ) To leave. I'm going to blow out of here now.
  1950s
• blow
  
  ( v ) To waste, lose. He blew all his money gambling.
  1940s
• blow a fuse
  
  ( vp ) Lose your temper. Hey, don't blow a fuse.
  1940s
• blow away
  
  ( v ) Greatly impress someone. I was blown away by his donation of a million dollars.
  1960s
• blow away
  
  ( v ) To defeat roundly. We blew the competition away.
  1970s
• blow off
  
  ( v ) To defeat in competition. We blew off the other team 98-54.
  1970s
• blow off
  
  ( v ) To fail miserably. I hear she blew off Chem 374.
  1960s
• blow off
  
  ( v ) To skip, to not attend. I think I blew off bio a few times too many.
  1980s
• blow the doors off
  
  ( vp ) To easily beat another car in a race. He blew the doors off that stone of Benny's.
  1970s
• blow your cool
  
  ( vp ) Get angry, mad. Calm down, girl, don't blow your cool.
  1960s
• blowback
  
  ( n ) Negative reaction to something said or done. I got very little blowback from suggesting we skip bonuses this year if the company goes into bankruptcy.
  1960s
• blowhard
  
  ( n ) A talkative braggart. That old blowhard thinks he won the Korean War single-handedly.
  1850s
• blue
  
  ( adj ) Sad, depressed. What's wrong, Meg? You look a little blue.
  1550s
• blue-blood
  
  ( n ) Rich, upper class. Portia Carr is such a blue-blood herself she only talks to other blue-bloods.
  1850s
• bluenose
  
  ( n ) A puritanical person, a prude. The party was filled with so many prudes and bluenoses nobody had any fun.
  1920s
• blues
  
  ( n ) Depression, melancholy. Her boyfriend left her singing the blues
  1910s
• boat
  
  ( n ) A large luxurious car. Hey, man, I saw you cruising around in that old boat of your dad's
  1950s
• bob
  
  ( adj ) To shorten. Why to they bob the tails of some dogs?
  1750s
• bobo
  
  ( n ) Bad, of poor quality. Not up to standard. That shirt is bobo.
  1980s
• boff
  
  ( v ) To hit. He gets into trouble at home when he boffs his brother.
  1930s
• bogart
  
  ( v ) To hog something. Don't bogart that joint, my friend.
  1970s
• bogus
  
  ( adj ) Bad, unfair. That exam was totally bogus.
  1970s
• bogus
  
  ( adj ) False, fake. They caught him passing bogus money.
  1830s
• bojangle
  
  ( v ) To act crazy. She's straight bojangling when she tries out for modeling jobs.
  1990s
• bomb
  
  ( n ) Something bad or cheap. The movie was a bomb.
  1990s
• bomb-diggity
  
  ( adj ) Extremely cool or interesting. The bomb-diggity chick walked by my locker.
  1980s
• bombed
  
  ( adj ) Drunk, intoxicated. The driver of the car was bombed.
  1950s
• bomby
  
  ( adj ) Excellent, outstanding. It was a bomby party, man.
  1990s
• bon-diggity
  
  ( adj ) Attractive; good-looking. You are so bon-diggity.
  1990s
• bone (up)
  
  ( v ) To study or work hard. I can't go anywhere tonight; I have to bone (up) for my chemistry test.
  1840s
• bone yard
  
  ( np ) A junk yard. I found a good set of mud flaps at the bone yard.
  1960s
• bonehead
  
  ( n ) A stupid or foolish person. That bonehead let the air out of his own tires!.
  1900s
• boner
  
  ( n ) A mistake, an error I must have pulled a real boner on the test; I flunked it.
  1910s
• bones
  
  ( n ) Dice. Seven come eleven! Throw those bones, man!
  1620s
• bones
  
  ( n ) Money. I don't have enough bones to go anywhere.
  1990s
• bonkers
  
  ( adj ) Crazy, insane. That noise they call music is driving me bonkers.
  1940s
• boo
  
  ( n ) A boyfriend or girlfriend. Keep your hands off my boo , girl!
  1990s
• boo
  
  ( n ) Nothing, something insignificant. That threat of his doesn't mean boo.
  1960s
• boo-boo
  
  ( n ) A mistake, error. If you make another boo-boo like that, you won't have a job.
  1950s
• boob
  
  ( n ) A stupid or foolish person That boob O'Reilly picked his nose three times at the dinner table.
  1930s
• boob tube
  
  ( n ) Television, TV. Ronald, if you can pull yourself away from the boob tube for a minute, clean up your room.
  1960s
• booboisie
  
  ( n ) All boobs (knuckleheads) taken as a class. I'm never invited to Riley's parties: he only invites the cream of the local booboisie.
  1920s
• booby
  
  ( n ) A stupid or foolish person That booby, Claude McCann, left the tiger cage open again!
  1690s
• booby-hatch
  
  ( n ) An insane asymlum. Donny Brooke should be put away in a booby-hatch somewhere.
  1720s
• boocoo
  
  ( adj ) Much, a lot. I don't have boocoo time to help you with that.
  1920s
• boocoos
  
  ( n ) A large amount. I had boocoos of money before the market crashed.
  1920s
• booger
  
  ( n ) A bit of dried nasal mucus. Hey, Jeremiah, you have a booger hanging from your nose.
  1920s
• booger
  
  ( n ) A brat, a rascal. I gave the little booger $5 to put gas in my car and he spent it on his girl.
  1940s
• booger
  
  ( n ) A disgusting female. I can't believe you went out with that booger.
  1980s
• boogie
  
  ( v ) To dance wildly to the late 60s style of rock (from the boogie-woogie of the late 30s and 40s). I love this music; let's boogie.
  1960s
• boogie
  
  ( v ) To leave. The witching hour is coming up; let's boogie to it.
  1980s
• boogie-woogie
  
  ( n ) Jazz of the 30s and 40s. Boogie-woogie is really cutting the rug!
  1930s
• book
  
  ( v ) To drive fast. He was booking over a 100 when they caught him.
  1980s
• book
  
  ( v ) To leave. I've got to get home; let's book.
  1990s
• book
  
  ( v ) To register an arrest. They just booked Rusty for forging checks.
  1940s
• book
  
  ( v ) To study hard. I have to get to the library and book the rest of the night.
  1960s
• boombox
  
  ( n ) A large portable music box. Will you turn your boombox down so we can talk?
  1970s
• boondocks
  
  ( n ) An isolated place in the country. He lives somewhere out in the boondocks.
  1940s
• boondoggle
  
  ( n ) A con game, a deceitful transaction. Government contracts are often thinly veiled boondoggles.
  1930s
• boondoggle
  
  ( n ) A gadget, especially something braided from leather. Cowboys often spent their free time making boondoggles for their saddles.
  1850s
• boondoggle
  
  ( v ) To swindle or cheat. Heathcliff was boondoggled into selling his car for half of its value.
  1930s
• boone
  
  ( v ) To swindle or betray. Don't trust him; he'llboone you every time.
  1990s
• boone
  
  ( n ) Traitor, betrayer. Don't trust him; he's a boone.
  1990s
• boost
  
  ( v ) To make happy, pleasantly surprise. He was boosted when he got an A on math.
  1990s
• boost
  
  ( v ) To steal. I think he boosted those sneakers.
  1950s
• booster
  
  ( n ) A strong supporter. She is a big booster of the high school football team.
  1890s
• boot
  
  ( n ) Dismissal from work. I hear Ken got the boot at work today.
  1880s
• boot
  
  ( n ) Someone of legal age who buys liquor for minors. Francis is my regular boot but I know others when I'm thirsty.
  1990s
• boot
  
  ( v ) To fire. They booted Ken today; he is out of a job.
  1880s
• boot
  
  ( v ) To vomit. Watch out! Looks like she's going to boot.
  1970s
• boot
  
  ( n ) Dismissal, firing. I heard Lester got the boot and is looking for a new job.
  1880s
• bootie
  
  ( n ) The buttocks. She has a good figure with a nice bootie.
  1970s
• bootleg
  
  ( n ) Bad, unfair. That test was totally bootleg.
  1980s
• bootleg
  
  ( adj ) Illegal, smuggled. His dad made enough money running bootleg liquor to open a bank before Prohibition ended.
  1920s
• bootsie
  
  ( n ) Bad, no good. Man, that teacher is bootsie.
  1990s
• booty
  
  ( n ) Bad, unfair. An 11 o'clock curfew? Man, that's booty!
  1990s
• booty
  
  ( n ) Stolen goods or money. The hijackers hid their booty in the boot of the car.
  1470s
• booty
  
  ( n ) The buttocks. Scope out the booty on that chick!
  1950s
• booze
  
  ( n ) Liquor or other alcoholic beverage. I promised to bring two bottles of booze to the party.
  1940s
• bop
  
  ( v ) To dance wildly to the big band jazz of the 40s. We bopped all night at Collingwood's last night.
  1940s
• bop
  
  ( v ) To go. Let's bop on down to the laundromat.
  1960s
• bop
  
  ( v ) To hit. Frannie bopped me on the head, mommy!
  1930s
• bopper
  
  ( n ) A male or female who chases the opposite sex. Stay away from that bopper, girl; he's nothing but trouble.
  1990s
• bork
  
  ( v ) To vomit. Rupert paid $50 for his dinner with Muriel, then borked it on the road home.
  1970s
• boss
  
  ( adj ) Excellent, outstanding. Oh, man, he drives a real boss set of wheels.
  1980s
• bounce
  
  ( v ) To fire. She was bounced after she refused to work overtime.
  1880s
• bounce
  
  ( v ) To force to leave. Malcolm got so boisterous in the bar they bounced him.
  1880s
• bounce
  
  ( v ) To leave. This party is whack, man. Let's bounce.
  1980s
• bouncer
  
  ( n ) A bully. That bouncer always tries to get his way.
  1830s
• bouncer
  
  ( n ) Someone who forces obnoxious people out of public places. Marvin had a few too many at the bar last night and the bouncer ejected him.
  1880s
• bounder
  
  ( n ) A bad, mean man. Phil Anders is such a bounder; he just won't leave women alone!
  1570s
• Bouya!
  
  ( int ) An interjection of triumph. Bouya! I told you, you couldn't beat me at tennis.
  2000s
• boy
  
  ( int ) Form of address to a male in the South. How are you doing, boy? I haven't seen you in a 'coon's age.
  1850s
• Boy!
  
  ( int ) An emphatic interjection. Boy, was he surprised when I showed him my new erector set!
  1910s
• bozo
  
  ( n ) A stupid or foolish person. That bozo doesn't know ham from a hammer.
  1920s
• brad
  
  ( n ) A well-built male. This guy Ashley is totally brad.
  1990s
• brand
  
  ( adv ) Very. He has a brand new car.
  1570s
• brass
  
  ( n ) High ranking officials. When the brass hears about this, they aren't going to like it.
  1890s
• brass
  
  ( n ) Impudence, gall, effrontery. He had the brass to tell the teacher off.
  1620s
• bread
  
  ( n ) Money. I need some bread to pay for my car.
  1960s
• break
  
  ( n ) Opportunity. A lucky break helped him get the job.
  1910s
• break
  
  ( v ) To leave. I have To leave. now; it's time to break (out of here).
  1950s
• break down
  
  ( v ) To stop functioning. My car broke down and I had to walk home.
  1800s
• break down
  
  ( v ) To stop resisting. He broke down after 20 hours of grilling and confessed.
  1800s
• break up
  
  ( v ) To end a relationship. Bev and Ben broke up over Ben's gambling.
  1480s
• break up
  
  ( v ) To make laugh; explode in laughter. Everything she says breaks me up.
  1820s
• break your back
  
  ( v ) To exert yourself. I'm not going to break my back helping him load those stones.
  1650s
• breeze
  
  ( n ) A joke. That prof thinks he's funny but he don't know anything but breezes.
  1990s
• breeze
  
  ( n ) Something easy to do. Cutting your own hair is a breeze!
  1920s
• breezer
  
  ( n ) A convertible car. Let's put the top down on the breezer and let the wind blow through our hair.
  1920s
• brew
  
  ( n ) Beer. I think George had one too many brews.
  1960s
• brewski
  
  ( n ) Beer. Let's go down to the inn and have a few brewskis.
  1970s
• brick
  
  ( n ) A good person. Don't say anything bad about Percival; he's a brick if ever there was one.
  1840s
• brick
  
  ( adj ) Cold. Turn up the heat, it's brick in here.
  1990s
• bring-down
  
  ( n ) Disappointment, a saddening event. The news of the crash was a major bring-down.
  1980s
• bro
  
  ( n ) A close male friend or relative. He's my main bro, bro.
  1980s
• bro
  
  ( int ) A male appellation. Hey, bro, whassup?
  1980s
• broad
  
  ( n ) A woman (offensive). Never tangle with that broad; she's tough.
  1940s
• brodown
  
  ( n ) A boy's night out together. Lenny isn't at home; he went to the putt-putt golf course for a brodown with his buddies.
  2000s
• broke
  
  ( adj ) Without money. I'm broke man; don't ask me for money.
  1930s
• bromance
  
  ( n ) Friendship between males. Linus Allup has no time for women because of his bromance with Quentin.
  2000s
• Bronx cheer
  
  ( np ) Blowing air through the closed lips to make a disgusting sound. When he cut in front of the taxi, he received a Bronx cheer from the cabbie.
  1920s
• brown-nose
  
  ( n ) A toady, teacher's pet. The creepy brown-nose is the teacher's pet.
  1950s
• brown-nose
  
  ( v ) To toady. He gets low grades even though he brown-noses every teacher in school.
  1950s
• brown-noser
  
  ( n ) A toady, teacher's pet. Farley is the biggest brown-noser in school.
  1950s
• brush off
  
  ( v ) To rebuff, snub. Carly brushed off all my advances like I was a bug.
  1940s
• brush-off
  
  ( n ) A rebuff, snub. Every time I ask dad for a job, I get the brush-off.
  1940s
• buck
  
  ( n ) A dollar. He only got 50 bucks for that old heap of his.
  1850s
• buck
  
  ( np ) Money. I need to make a quick buck.
  1930s
• buck
  
  ( v ) To intimidate someone. They tried to buck him but he didn't back down.
  1990s
• buddy
  
  ( int ) Form of address for a male in the South. Hey, buddy, can you spare a dime?
  1930s
• Buddy Roe
  
  ( int ) A threatening form of address for a male in the South. Look out, Buddy Roe, or you'll get into trouble!
  1920s
• buff
  
  ( adj ) Muscular. That dude is totally buff.
  1990s
• buff
  
  ( n ) Nude, nudity. To come to the door in the buff.
  1800s
• bug
  
  ( n ) A burglar alarm system. He was caught when he broke into a house that was bugged.
  1920s
• bug
  
  ( n ) A fanatic. Milton is the greatest baseball bug I've ever known.
  1840s
• bug
  
  ( n ) A fault or defect. There is a bug somewhere in my software that no one can find.
  1880s
• bug
  
  ( n ) A passion, obsession. Ronald has the baseball bug and doesn't miss a game.
  1830s
• bug
  
  ( v ) To act crazy. Marvin must have been bugging when he told me to see that crappy flick!
  1980s
• bug
  
  ( v ) To annoy, bother. What's bugging you?
  1960s
• bug
  
  ( v ) To equip with a burglar alarm. The coppers caught him when he entered a bugged house.
  1910s
• bug
  
  ( v ) To hide a live microphone. I think they've bugged my apartment.
  1950s
• bug off
  
  ( v ) Leave, say good-bye. Why don't you just bug off!
  1970s
• bug out
  
  ( v ) To leave. I've got exams tomorrow; time for me to bug out.
  1960s
• bug-eyed
  
  ( adj ) Wide-eyed with astonishment. I've never seen anyone so bug-eyed as Turnips when I showed him the $100 bill.
  1920s
• bugaboo
  
  ( n ) Something that frightens you. You aren't worried about that old bugaboo, taxes, are you?
  1740s
• bugbear
  
  ( n ) Something that frightens you. You aren't worried about that old bugbear, taxes, are you?
  1580s
• bulky
  
  ( n ) A policeman. Keep the noise down or you'll bring the bulkies down on you.
  1840s
• bull
  
  ( n ) Nonsense. Everything you've said is just a load of bull and you know it.
  1910s
• bull
  
  ( n ) A policeman. Everyone was having fun until the bulls broke it up.
  1850s
• bull session
  
  ( np ) An informal conversation. The boys got together at Raphael's for an all-night bull-session.
  1920s
• bum
  
  ( adj ) Bad, no good. What a bum trip that project was.
  1850s
• bum
  
  ( v ) To borrow. Can I bum ten bucks until the end of the week?
  1940s
• bum
  
  ( v ) To depress. That really bums me!
  1950s
• bum out
  
  ( v ) To depress. I was really bummed after I heard the news.
  1950s
• bum rap
  
  ( np ) False accusation. They kept him after school for smoking in the men's room but he got a bum rap.
  1940s
• bum's rush
  
  ( np ) Ejection by force. Stanley became so obnoxious, we had to give him the bum's rush to get him out.
  1920s
• bumbershoot
  
  ( n ) Umbrella. Don't forget your bumbershoot; it looks like rain.
  1890s
• bummer
  
  ( n ) Bad news. My trip to New York was a bummer.
  1960s
• bump off
  
  ( v ) To kill. The boss thought we ought to bump off the informer.
  1920s
• bumpkin
  
  ( n ) A clumsy, unsophisticated person from the country. I don't know what she sees in that country bumpkin she goes with.
  1680s
• bunk
  
  ( adj ) Bad, no good. Dad told me to go to my room. he's so bunk!
  1990s
• bunk
  
  ( n ) Nonsense. He said he aced the chem exam. That's bunk!
  1900s
• buns
  
  ( n ) The buttocks. The new guy has cute buns!
  1960s
• bupkis
  
  ( n ) Nothing, zip. I worked all day for him and he gave me bupkis!
  1940s
• burn
  
  ( v ) To catch, punish. Buffy got burned for shop-lifting.
  1970s
• burn out
  
  ( v ) To become jaded, no longer effective. I've worked on this job so long that I'm burnt out.
  1960s
• burn rubber
  
  ( vp ) To screech your tires pulling out. That car is so powerful it can burn rubber in second gear.
  1950s
• burn up
  
  ( v ) Make angry, mad. That really burns me up!
  1930s
• burnips
  
  ( adj ) Very cold. It's burnips outside; grab a jacket.
  1990s
• bust
  
  ( n ) A failure. The whole idea was a bust.
  1840s
• bust
  
  ( v ) To capture or arrest. He got busted for lifting hubcaps.
  1960s
• bust
  
  ( v ) To leave. Yo, I'm bored; let's bust.
  1990s
• bust out
  
  ( v ) To escape. His mother and three of her buddies busted out of prison but was caught 3 days later.
  1930s
• bust out
  
  ( v ) To leave. Let's bust out of here and shoot some hoops.
  1950s
• bust rocks
  
  ( vp ) To exert yourself. Let's go bust rocks on the dance floor.
  1980s
• bust rocks
  
  ( vp ) To serve time in prison. Yeah, if you do that, you'll be busting rocks for 10 years.
  1940s
• bust your butt
  
  ( vp ) To exert yourself. Rachel busted her butt working for her father and he never appreciated it.
  1950s
• bust your chops
  
  ( vp ) To scold, chastise. I'm going to bust his chops for leaving his date at the party when I see him.
  1940s
• buster
  
  ( n ) A loser, a jerk. Don't mack on him; he's just a buster.
  1980s
• butt
  
  ( adj ) Bad, of poor quality. That dress is totally butt! Why are you wearing it?
  1990s
• butter
  
  ( adj ) Something excellent, outstanding. His new backpack is pure butter.
  1990s
• butter up
  
  ( v ) To flatter in order to get something from someone. Don't think I'll loan you the money if you butter me up.
  1700s
• butterfingers
  
  ( n ) Someone who drops things. You are such a butterfingers; you drop everything you pick up!
  1830s
• butterflies in the stomach
  
  ( n ) Fearfulness, stage fright. Every time I talk to her I have butterflies in my stomach.
  1900s
• buttery
  
  ( adj ) Bad, ugly. That new CD is buttery; turn it off.
  2000s
• buy it
  
  ( vp ) To die. If you don't slow down, you're going to buy it in a car accident.
  1960s
• buy the farm
  
  ( vp ) To die. If you don't kick the ice cream habit you're going to buy the farm.
  1940s
• buzz
  
  ( n ) Gossip. Have you heard the latest buzz?
  1600s
• buzz
  
  ( n ) Tipsiness. I had a buzz on after the third martini.
  1940s
• buzz
  
  ( v ) To shave (your head). I head he got buzzed over the weekend.
  2000s
• buzz off
  
  ( v ) Leave, say good-bye. Why don't you just buzz off and stop bothering me?
  1910s