booby trap
A trap set to discomfit an unsuspecting victim. — e.g. among children, placing a book on top of a door to fall on whoever opens the door; in war, attaching an explosive charge to the door so that whoever opens it will be killed.
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booby-trap
A favourite amusement of boys at school. It consists in placing a pitcher of water on the top of a door set ajar for the purpose; the person whom they wish to drench is then made to pass through the door, and receives the pitcher and its contents on his unlucky head. Books are sometimes used.
booch
Cocaine.
boodleize
To bribe.
boogie on down
to dance, especially in a lively or energetic manner
book burning
Intentional destruction of books, often to suppress ideas
book dumping
Selling books to a retailer at a low price, often to get rid of excess inventory.
book in
to schedule or reserve something
book-keeper
One who never returns borrowed books. Out of one's books; out of one's fevor. Out of his books; out of debt.
booked
Caught, fixed, disposed of.—Term in Book-keeping.
booking office
In coaching days, when accommodation in the stage coaches was very limited, the traveller had to enter his name in a book kept in the office of the coaching inn, and wait his turn for a place in the coach. For the first few years after the introduction of railways all tickets were written out and entered up in their books by the clerks in the booking offices.
bookmaker’s pocket
A breast-pocket made inside the waistcoat, for notes of large amount.
books
Cards to play with. To plant the books; to place the cards in the pack in an unfair manner.
books
A pack of cards. Term used by professional card-players.—See DEVIL’S BOOKS.
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. (Francis Bacon)
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
Books think for me. (Charles Lamb)
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
boom
"to top one’s BOOM off," to be off or start in a certain direction.—Sea.
boom and zoom
A tactic where a fighter jet gains speed at high altitude and dives to attack
boom or bust
Succeeding greatly or failing completely
boom-passenger
A sailor’s slang term for a convict on board ship. Derived from the circumstance that prisoners on board convict ships were chained to, or were made to crawl along or stand on the booms for exercise or punishment.
boon and bane
Something that is both beneficial and harmful
Boon Companion
A convivial or congenial companion. A ban vivant is one fond of good living. "Who leads a good life is sure to live well." (Fr. bon, good.
boon-companion
A comrade in a drinking bout. BOON evidently corruption of BON.
booner
A person who takes particular pride in their car and enjoys showing it off.
boonies
Boondocks.
boost
To steal.
boot
Besides, Pope assures us, that "VICE TO BE HATED NEEDS BUT
boot and saddle
The order to cavalry for mounting. It is a corruption of the Fr. boute selley put on the saddle, and has nothing to do with boots.
boot camp
a rigorous training program
boot catcher
The servant at an inn whose business it is to clean the boots of the guest.
bootie
A soldier.
bootjack
to steal
bootleggers and Baptists
Unlikely allies unite for a common goal
bootless errand
An unprofitable or futile message. I sent him Bootless home and weather-beaten back.
boots
A condom.
boots
The youngest officer in a regimental mess, whose duty it is to skink, that is, to stir the fire, snuff the candles, and ring the bell. See SKINK.--To ride in any one's old boots; to marry or keep his cast-off mistress.
booty
To play booty; cheating play, where the player purposely avoids winning.
bootyhole
The anus.
bootylicious
Voluptuously attractive, especially of a woman's buttocks.
booze
Drink. Ancient Cant, BOWSE. BOOZE, or SUCK-CASA, a public-house.
booze can
a place where people drink alcohol
boozebag
A drunkard.
boozing-ken
A beer-shop, a low public-house.—Ancient.
boozy
Intoxicated or fuddled.
bop the bishop
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
borachio
A skin for holding wine, commonly a goat's; also a nick name for a drunkard.
boracic
penniless
boracic lint
skint
borde
A shilling. A half borde; a sixpence.
borderline case
A situation or decision that is not clearly one thing or another
bore
A tedious, troublesome man or woman, one who bores the ears of his hearers with an uninteresting tale; a term much in fashion about the years 1780 and 1781.
bore
A troublesome friend or acquaintance, perhaps so called from his unvaried and pertinacious pushing; a nuisance; anything which wearies or annoys. The Gradus ad Cantabrigiam suggests the derivation of BORE from the Greek Βάρος, a burden. Shakspeare uses it, King Henry VIII., i. 1—
Bore of the Severn
In the Severn and other river estuaries certain winds cause a bore, or great tidal wave that rushes up the channel
Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen. (Ambrose Bierce)
A person who talks excessively and annoyingly
bored out of one's mind
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
bored shitless
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
borky
broken
born and bred
Raised from birth in a particular place or environment
born in a barn
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
born in the purple
Said of the child of a king or emperor (see PORPHYROGENITUS), hence of anyone of exalted birth or "born with a silver spoon in his mouth." The expression comes from a Byzantine custom which ordained that the empress should be brought to bed in a chamber the walls of which were lined with porphyry, or purple.
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