bagging
[1990- ] breathing inhalants from a bag over one's face or head
bail
1. to leave (usually work or class, but it can mean to leave
any place); Quitting time; I'm gonna bail. Usually with
out [probably from the military
bail out of a
plane, boat, or other vehicle]
2. to skip a class or assignment; He bailed on that project.
ballistic, to go
an angry rage; this colloquialism has recently gained enough
legitimacy to emerge in popular news reports as
go nuclear
ballistic lobotomy
[Chuck Vinch, The Denver Post] shot in the head
BAMBI
[Back At My
Base I....", 1988- ,USAF]
one who incessantly talks about a previous assignment;
That guy's a real bambi.
batmobiling
putting up emotional shields; from the retracting armor that covers the
batmobile; She started talking marriage and he started
batmobiling [July 97, from an e-mail]
barrel, your turn in the
a situation in which one person of a group suffers to the benefit of the
others; "This doesn't seem so bad." "Oh yeh?
Just wait till it's your turn in the barrel."
probably from a joke about a sailor seeking release
from sexual tension while on a long cruise, who is told to put his penis
in the bung-hole of a barrel; he says it's great, and is told,
"Everybody says that until it's their turn in the barrel."
bazooka barf
projectile vomiting
big chicken dinner
[mil]
a bad conduct discharge
bearded clam
[obscene] euphemism for a woman's crotch; see
sex
beeped
[1995, FIDO Funny echo] dismissed from a job
beepilepsy
afflicts those with vibrating pagers, characterized by sudden spasms,
goofy facial expressions, and loss of speech [July 97, from an e-mail]
beer bong
1: -n- [1980- ] a funnel with a hose attached; beer is poured into the
funnel to fill the hose and funnel to the top; the beer is to be drunk
in a single gulp;
2: -n- [1980- ] a beer can prepared with a hole
in the bottom; the beer is to be drunk in a single gulp
beetle
Eyebrows
He beetled his eyebrows at me. -R.Chandler, The Long Good-Bye, 1953; I have no idea what this means
bifftad
description of a stereotypical New England prep school type;
from an e-mail
bionic
Bionics is a variant term for cybernetics, which idea was first
introduced back in 1923 by EV Odle in the novel The Clockwork Man,
which featured a man of the future who has a clockwork in his head that
is supposed to regulate his whole being. [Gus Gere, FIDO Words
conference, Nov 95]
bitch
Bitch, bitch, bitch, ever since the dog ate the baby.
reply after I'd started to complain about something, Nov 96
Some people would bitch if you hung them with a gold rope.
shortly after the first remark, Nov 96
blamestorming
sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed
or a project failed and who was responsible [from e-mail, Aug 97]
blanket party
[military]
military members sometimes dispense summary justice by giving
a blanket party to a troublemaker or misfit;
the name comes from holding down the mistfit
with a blanket, sometimes in his bed after lights out;
each of his attackers
take a turn hitting the misfit; compare
dogpile,
pink belly
blissninnies
also airheads
blow
1: -vt- fellate
2: -vt- buy drinks for; I blew each and all my
friends. from the song Hey, Bartender
blow down
to refuse; She might or might not blow me down. -Raymond Chandler,
The Long Good-Bye, 1953; see blow off
blow your buffer
lose your train of thought [July 97, from an e-mail]
blow off
1: -vt- to disregard; to refuse;
also shrug off
2: -vt- to fellate;
usually blow
blue angel
name given to the flame that rises from ignited flatulence
bluenose
a sailor who's sailed above the Arctic Circle and, of course, completed the correct rites of passage
BFD
Big Fucking Deal
(BF is used as a prefix to make many abbreviations,
such as BFH, Big Fucking Hammer;
BFT, Big Fucking Truck, etc.);
I've never heard the F rendered politely;
BFD might be used in mixed company as
an abbreviation only
bobtail
a long-haul diesel tractor without a trailer
[The Denver Post,11 Aug 96]
body nazis
hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics; they look down
on anyone who doesn't work out obsessively [from e-mail, Aug 97]
BOHICA
[mil]
bend
over
here
it
comes
again
bone, the
Rockwell B-1 (B-ONE) bomber
boner
1: penis;
2: a mistake;
3: Rockwell B-1 (B-ONE) bomber
boot
1: -n- bootleg
2: -vi- to vomit
3: -n- a recruit in the US Marine Corps or Navy;
compare doolie,
rainbow,
4: -vt- to start a computer, from the word BOOTSTRAP;
I have several running computers
that don't run a DOS. They don't have disks...I either toggle in the
system or toggle in the bootstrap to load from paper tape.
-- alt.folklore.computer
bowling pins
a reference to non-disabled people, made by the disabled; from
the ease with which wheelchair-riders can knock them over
[The Denver Post, 2 June 1997, from an article by Douglas Martin of
The New York Times]
brack
-vi- [familiar] to vomit
brain housing group
your head; usually used to refer to your brains or your intelligence; Take this in and hardwire it to your brain housing group
break the buddha
euphemism for flatulation
breasts, euphemism for
AA guns; angel cakes; apples; assets; balboas; bangers; bangles;
bassoons; baubles; bazongas; bazookas; bazooms; beacons; beanbags;
be(e)bops; Betty Boops; Big Boppers; billibongs; bikini stuffers;
blinkers; bombers; bombshells; bon bons; bongos; bonkers; boob/s, ~ers,
~ies; boops; bops; boulders; bouncers; bra buddies, stuffers; breastical
region; bronskis; bubbas; bubbies; buds; bulbs; bulges; bullets;
bumpers; bumps; bust/ers, ~ies; butterballs; buttons; caboodles; cams;
cannon balls; cantelopes; carumbas; casabas; catshelf; cha-chas;
charlies; chest of drawers; chihuahuas; chimichongas; chiquitas;
coconuts; cones; congas; corkers; creamers; cream pies; crumb tray;
cuhuangas; cupcakes, curves, dingers; dinghies; dingos; dirigibles;
domes; doodads; doorknobs; doo/zers, ~zies; double whammies; duelling
banjos; dugs; dumplings; dunes; ear muffs; eclairs; eggplants;
enchiladas; emergency flotation devices; flapjacks; flappers; flesh
bulbs, melons; float(er)s; fog lights; fried eggs; fun bags; gagas;
garbos; gazingas; gazongas; glands; globes; globlets; gob stoppers;
gongas; golden bozos; goombas; grapefruits; grillwork; guavas; gumdrops;
handsets; hand warmers; headers; head/lamps, ~lights, ~phones, ~sets;
hefties; heifers; hemispheres; hills; hindenburgs; honeydews; honkers;
hood ornaments; hoo-hahs; hooters; hot cakes; hottentots; howitzers; hub
caps; huffies; humdingers; hush puppies; ICBMs; jaw breakers; jemimas;
jibs; jobbers; jugs; jukes; jumbos; kabukis; kalamazoos; kazongas;
kazoos; knob(ber)s; knockers; kongas; kumquats; lactoids; lip fodder;
llamas; loaves; loblollies; love balloons, melons, muffins, pillows;
lulus; lungs; macaroons; mambos; mammaries; mam(mie)s; mangos; marangos;
maraschinos; marimbas; marshmallows; mau maus; mausers; meat/balls,
~loaves; melons; mcguffies; milk cans, fountains, grenades, jugs,
shakes; mole hills; mommas; mondos; montezumas; moo moos; mother lodes;
mounds; mountain peaks; muchachas; muffins; mulligans; mushmelons;
nancies; nectarines; niblets; nibs; nip/pers, ~pies, ~s; nippleoons;
nipleos; nodes; nodules; noogies; nose cones; oboes; oompas; orbs;
ottomans; padding; pagodas; pair; palookas; pancakes; papayas;
parabolas; pastries; patooties; paw patties; peaches; peak(er)s; pears;
pecs; peepers; pillows; pips; pleasure chest; plums; pointers-sisters;
points; pokers; polygons; pompoms; pontoons; potatos; PT boats;
pumpkins; rangoons; rib balloons; rib cushions; rivets; roundies;
sandbags; satelliets; scones; scoops; set; shakers; shebas; shermans;
shimmies; silos; skin sacks; schooners; smoothies; snuggle pups; spark
plugs; specials; spheres; spongecakes; spuds; stacks; stuffing; sugar
plums; sweater meat, puffs; sweet rolls; tahitis; tamales; tartugas;
tatas; tats; tattlers; tetons; thangs; thingamajigs; tidbits; tit/s,
~skis, ~ters, ~ties; tomatoes; tom-toms; tooters; torpedoes; tortillas;
totos; treasure chest; twanters; tweakers; tweekers; twin peaks;
twofers; tympanies; U-boats; umlauts; wah-wahs; waldos; warheads;
watermelons; whoppers; windjammers; winnebagos; wobblers; wongas;
wonkas; woofers; ya(h)bos; yams; ya-yas; zeppelins; zingers
Note: practically all the euphemisms for breasts
are considered at least mildly offensive by most people,
and often all references to sexual anatomy are considered
very offensive and should not be uttered in mixed company;
see sex
brecken
to vomit
bubbler
[Wisconsin, N.Illinois] drinking fountain
BUFF
1: -n- [mil] Big Ugly Fat
Fucker
[politely: Fellow];
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
("Buff Bunny" was painted on the
nose of a B-52 in a Nov issue of Airman magazine)
2: -adj- excellent; admirable
3: -adj- having well-developed, well-defined muscles;
compare pumped,
ripped
bugger
n., vt: anal intercourse;
"Bugger" is more often attributed to "Bulgar."
This referred less to
the nationality than to a popular heresy which was supposed to originate
there. [Frank Palmer, FIDO Words conference, Nov 95]
bulked
1: -adj- muscular; usu. with "out"
bull-goose bozo
full-blown, out of control;
also full-goose bozo
bully pulpit
The White House is the pulpit; the American people the congregation;
and the power of the president speaking from the White House is bully --
as it first-rate or admirable. Theodore Roosevelt is believed to have
coined the phrase, telling George Putnam: "The White House is a bully
pulpit." In A Thousand Days, his memoir of the Kennedy administration,
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. titled one chapter "The Bully Pulpit." There's
even a book, The Bully Pulpit, subtitled Quotations From America's
Presidents.
-Colin Bessonette, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
Nov 95
bushusuru
to vomit;
Japanese, "do the Bush thing," after an incident
in which US President George Bush threw up on Japanese Prime
Minister Miazawa in 1991
buttons
police officers (possibly from the buttons on the uniform)
[Rayomond Chandler, The Long Good-Bye, 1953]
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