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Basque: A woman’s tightly-wrapped bodice or leather corset.
Biscuit: A sweet cookie - not to be confused with Cookie’s Fortune, the sweet and cleverly named Glenn Close motion picture.
Blimey: Cockney slang for the curse “God, blind me!” An expression of surprise, as in Cor Blimey!
Bollocks: Slang term for testicles. Never Mind the Bollocks was the title of The Sex Pistols’ seminal punk album.
Booyakasha: Catchphrase of eloquent urban comedian Ali G.
Bread bin: A box used to store bread which is, contrary to the popular joke, probably bigger than a black man’s cock.
Bricking: Another term for pooping ones’ pants, usually in fear. E.g. I was bricking it.
BSE: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, aka Mad Cow Disease first appeared in England in 1986. True to form, little sister Canada waitied a few years to follow England’s cool new trend and then in December 2003 gave the United States its very own mad cow.
Buckaroo: Popular kids’ game in the ’80s involving a donkey. Akin to Operation, but instead of removing body parts, one added various and sundry loads until the dockey explorded. In fact it sounds much better than Operation.
Bum-bag: Fanny pack.
Bunce: Short for Bunson burner, which is cockney slang for “nice little earner.”
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