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1. actioner, n. View full entry 1825
...A shareholder; = actionary Cf. action9. Obs.rare....
2. Aggie, n.1 and adj. View full entry 1871
...An agriculturalist, spec. a student at an agricultural college. Freq. (and in earliest use): a member of a sports team from such a college; (in pl.) the team...
3. a-go-go, adj. View full entry 1960
...Fashionable, modish, up to date, ‘with it’; lively, ‘swinging’. Also used postpositively. Cf. go-go...
4. Albertopolis, n. View full entry 1860
...An informal name for: the area of South Kensington in London that is home to various cultural and educational institutions including the Natural History Museum, the Royal Albert Hall, and the Royal...
5. alickadoo, n. View full entry 1961
...A person who is attached to or associated with a rugby game or club but does not play, esp. an administrative official or committee member....
6. Ally Sloper, n. View full entry 1890
...Used attrib. to designate a person or thing resembling, characteristic of, or relating to Ally Sloper, esp. in appearance or behaviour. Also (occas.): a person resembling Ally Sloper....
7. amped, adj.1 View full entry 1968
...Of sound, music, a musical instrument, etc.: put through an amplifier, amplified; very loud. Chiefly in amped-up....
8. atomized, adj.2 View full entry 1848
...Disunited, dissociated; esp. having lost social unity....
9. bad boy, n. View full entry 1860
...colloq. (orig. U.S.). A man who does not conform to expected or approved standards of conduct; a rebel. With of or genitive indicating the sphere in which...
10. Baker day, n. View full entry 1988
...Any of several days in the state school year set aside for INSET training (see INSET); an INSET day....
11. bally, adj. and adv. View full entry 1885
...As a vague intensive (usually as a euphemism for bloody): confounded, dashed, blasted. Cf. absoballylutely at absolutely2....
12. bar steward, n. View full entry 1888
...A person who serves drinks in a bar; a bartender....
13. bazillion, adj. and n. View full entry 1939
...With an article, number, or other quantifier, and followed by a plural noun: amounting to a very large (but indefinite) number or quantity....
14. beat-box, n. (and adj.) View full entry 1983
...An electronic drum machine....
15. beer pong, n. View full entry 1972
...Any of various drinking games in which players attempt to throw or hit table tennis balls into cups of beer, which must then be drunk by an opponent....
16. big guy, n. View full entry 1910
...As a familiar or affectionate form of address to a man or boy....
17. bindaas, adj. View full entry 1981
...Bold; independent; admired; fashionable....
18. bippy, n. View full entry 1968
...you bet your (sweet) bippy and variants: be assured, certainly; cf. betc. Hence: the buttocks, the backside....
19. bleep, v. View full entry 1957
...intr. To make a thin, high-pitched blipping sound or ‘bleep’....
20. Blighty | blighty, n. View full entry 1915
...England, home. (Used by soldiers on foreign service.)...
