Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

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goes on totally unaffected. 2. n. a hang-
over. He was out late last night and has
the blue f lu.

blue funk[“blu “f@Nk] n. a state of depres-
sion. I’m glad I’m out of my blue funk.
You’ve got to get out of your blue funk
and get back to work.


bluehairn. an old lady, especially one
whose hair is tinted blue. The cruise
was nice but sort of dull because of all the
bluehairs aboard. The bluehairs all
crowded up to the door, each one trying to
be first.


blue in the facemod. pale from exhaus-
tion or exertion. I laughed until I was
blue in the face. She worked hard
enough to be blue in the face.


blue suitn. a police officer. (Usually
plural.) The blue suits showed up about
twenty minutes after I called them! 
Watch out for the blue suits if you are go-
ing to drive this fast!


BM 1. n. a bowel movement; an act of defe-
cation. (Mostly a euphemism used with
children.) If I don’t have a BM soon,
I’m gonna die. 2. n. a disgusting and an-
noying person. (Also a term of address.
A humorous way of calling someone a
shit. Usually objectionable.) Get out of
here, you stupid BM! The new guy has
to be the world’s worst BM.


BMOCn. big man on campus, an important
or self-important male college student.
(Initialism. Collegiate. See also BWOC.)
Who’s the BMOC who keeps trying to
get elected class president? When this
BMOC asked me to leave, I ignored him.


BO 1. n. (bad) body odor. (Initialism.) 
Man, do you have BO! Now here is a
product that will end your worries about
BO. 2. n. box office, where tickets to
some event are sold. The show was a
big hit at the BO. If you want your
money back, you’ll have to go to the BO. 3.
and BOn. HBO, Home Box Office, the
cable television channel. (Initialism and
dysphemism.) Is there a good movie on
BO tonight? There is boxing on BO but
no movie.


boat 1. n. a big shoe. (See also gunboats.)
Whose boat is that under the coffee
table? Those boats are special made, in
fact. 2. n. a big car; a full-size car. I
don’t want to drive a big boat like that. 
How do you stop that boat? Throw out an
anchor?

boat anchorn. a useless computer; any-
thing heavy and useless. Why don’t you
replace that boat anchor with a new
model?

bod[bad] 1. n. a body, especially a nice
body. (See also odd-bod.) Yo u g o t a
nice bod, Tom. If you got a good bod
and enough money, why are you de-
pressed? 2. n. a person. How many bods
are coming over tonight? Who’s the bod
with the tight slacks?

bodacious[bo”deS@s] mod. assertive; au-
dacious. That is a bodacious plan, for
sure. Yes, sir! That is really bodacious.

body count 1. n. the total of dead bodies
after a battle. The body count at Hill
49 was three. The body count seems to
go down during the rainy season. 2. n. the
total number of casualties after some
kind of shake-up. The pink slips are
coming out every day. The body count on
Monday was twenty-three. Most every-
body is f lunking quan. The body count af-
ter the last test was in the twenties. 3. n.
a count of people present. The body
count was about forty-five at the meeting.
The body count seems to go down each
month.

body shaken. a shakedown of the body;
a skin-search. (Underworld. See also
shakedown.) You can’t give me a body
shake. I want my lawyer! They give
everybody who passes through these doors
a body shake.

boff[baf] 1. tv. to punch someone. I was
afraid she was going to boff me. Te d
boffed Harry playfully. 2. in. to empty
one’s stomach; to vomit. (See also barf.)
She boffed and boffed, until she was ex-
hausted. I think I’m gonna boff! 3. tv.
& in. to copulate [with] someone. (Usu-
ally objectionable.) They were boffing

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