baby juice
Semen.
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baby powder
Cocaine.
baby step
A small, initial step in a process or action
baby up
to take care of someone or something very carefully
baby-catcher
An obstetrician.
Babylonian Captivity
The seventy years that the Jews were captives in Babylon. They were made captives by Nebuchadnezzar, and released by Cyrus (536 B.C.).
babylonian numbers
N-ec Babylonios temp- tans numeros (Horace: Odes, Bk. i, xi, 2). Do not pry into futurity by astrological calcula- tions and horoscopes. Do not consult fortune-tellers. The Chaldeans were the most noted of astrologers.
babysitter test
A measure of how well someone can take care of themselves.
Bacchus and Circe
The name is from the Gr. komos, carousal.
bacchus and venus
Or, A Select Collection of near Two Hundred of the most Witty and Diverting Songs and Catches in Love and Gallantry, with Songs in the Canting Dialect, with a DICTIONARY explaining all Burlesque and Canting Terms, 12mo. 1738.
baccy
Tobacco.
bach
A bachelor.
Bachelor of Arts
A student who has taken the university degree below that of Master.
Bachelor of Salamanca
The last novel of Le Sage (published in 1736); the hero is a bachelor of arts, Don Cherubin de la Ronda; he is placed in different situations of life, and associates with all classes of society.
bachelor's buttons
Several flowers are so called. Red batchelor's buttons, the double red campion; yellow, the upright crowfoot; white, the white ranunculus, or white campion. The similitude these flowers have to the jagged cloath buttons anciently worne . . . gave occasion ... to call them Bachelor's Buttons.
bachelor's porch
An old name for the north door of a church. Menservants and poor men used to sit on benches down the north aisle, and maidservants and poor women on the south side. After service the men formed one line and the women another, down which the clergy and gentry passed.
bachelor's wife
A hypothetical ideal or perfect wife. Bachelors' wives and maids' children be well taught. HEYWOOD: Proverbs.
back
To support by means of money, on the turf or otherwise.—See LAY.
back alley
The anus.
back and edge
Entirely, heartily, tooth and nail, with might and main. The reference is, perhaps, to a wedge driven home to split wood. They were working back and edge for me. BOLDREWOOD: Robbery under Arms, ch. ii.
back and fill
to maneuver or change direction repeatedly
back and forth
moving repeatedly from one place to another
back at you
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
back biter
One who slanders another behind his back, i.e. in his absence. His bosom friends are become his back biters, said of a lousy man.
back down
To withdraw or retreat from a decision or confrontation
back forty
A remote or hard-to-reach area
back gammon player
A person who talks excessively but does little
back in the day
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
back in the game
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
back in the groove
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
back into
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
back jump
A back window.—Prison term.
back number
A number of a paper or periodical issued previously to the current one; hence an out-of-date or old-fashioned person or thing.
back of Godspeed
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
back of one's hand
To know something very well
back off
to withdraw or retreat from a situation
back office
Administrative and support functions of a company
back slang it
To go out the back way. Equivalent to "Sling your hook out of the back-door," i.e., get away quickly.
back somebody up
support or confirm someone's statement
back that train up
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
back the right horse
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
back the wrong horse
To support or choose the wrong option or person
back to back
happening one after the other without a break
back to square one
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
back to the wall
In a difficult or desperate situation
back up
to support or confirm something
back up
His back is up, i.e. he is offended or angry; an expression or idea taken from a cat; that animal, when angry, always raising its back. An allusion also sometimes used to jeer a crooked man; as, So, Sir, I see somebody has offended you, for your back is up.
back up the truck
To stop or slow down a process or activity
back-butt
Buttocks.
back-cloth star
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
back-end
That portion of the year which commences with October. This phrase is peculiar to the turf, and has its origin in the fact that October was actually, and is now nearly, the finishing portion of the racing season. Towards BACK-END the punters and "little men" generally begin to look forward with anxiety to their winter prospects, and "going for the gloves" is not only a frequent phrase, but a frequently recurring practice.
back-hander
A blow on the face with the back of the hand, a back-handed tip. Also a drink out of turn, as when a greedy person delays the decanter to get a second glass. Anything done slyly or secretly is said to be done in a back-handed manner.
backdoor trots
Diarrhea.
backed
Dead. He wishes to have the senior, or old square-toes, backed; he longs to have his father on six men's shoulders; that is, carrying to the grave.
backer
One who places his money on a particular man or animal; a supporter of one side in a contest. The great body of betting men is divided into BOOKMAKERS and BACKERS.
backgate
The anus.
backhanded compliment
a compliment that is actually insulting
backroom boys
A name given familiarly to the scientists and others who, unknown to the general public, devised and developed in their studies and laboratories methods of scientific warfare. The name has since been applied generally to such unknown workers in all branches of technology.
backslums
The byeways and disreputable portions of a town.
backstairs influence
Private or unrecog- nized influence, especially at Court. Royal palaces have more than one staircase, and those who sought the sovereign upon private matters would use one in an unobtrusive position; it was, therefore, highly desirable to conciliate the servants or underlings in charge of the "back stairs.
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