Get the inside tip
with America's number one radio show about language
, A Way with Words
About
Categories
Catchwords
Cohort
Word-A-Day
Entries
Feeds
Login
Search
Alphabetical Entries Beginning With
b
babalog
n. (16 May 2004)
babyface turn
n. (18 Jul 2004)
babymoon
n. (7 Jan 2005)
backdoor draft
n. (5 Nov 2004)
backpacker
n. (30 Jul 2004)
bag drag
n. (9 Dec 2004)
bag nasty
n. (2 Dec 2005)
bag skate
n. (12 Oct 2006)
bajet
n. (6 May 2004)
baked in
adj. (20 Jun 2006)
bakkie
n. (10 Jun 2004)
balayage
n. (24 Nov 2006)
Baltimore wrench
n. (8 Dec 2005)
bampot
n. (16 Aug 2005)
bang
v. (10 Mar 2005)
bang in
v. (26 Oct 2004)
Bangalored
adj. (27 Jul 2004)
bank
v. (24 Jun 2004)
barbecue stopper
n. (21 Jan 2005)
bark mitzvah
n. (21 Dec 2004)
barmuda triangle
n. (17 Jan 2007)
barrel edition
n. (31 May 2005)
Basement Betty
n. (7 Jul 2006)
bastard
n. (31 May 2005)
bat wings
n.pl. (29 Sep 2004)
battle rattle
n. (11 Oct 2004)
bazooty
n. (1 Mar 2005)
beat bag
n. (10 Jan 2007)
Beavis and Butt-head lab
n. (19 Mar 2007)
bed head
n. (15 Aug 2005)
bed-blocker
n. (11 May 2004)
beer chariot
n. (13 Feb 2006)
beer shooter
n. (1 Jun 2005)
belly button
n. (31 Oct 2006)
bent
n. (18 Jan 2006)
beta
n. (6 Apr 2005)
Big Apple
n. (7 Dec 2004)
big dance
n. (30 Sep 2004)
big dog
n. (1 Jun 2005)
Big Mother
n. (11 Aug 2006)
Big Smoke
n. (1 Jun 2005)
big snip
n. (18 Apr 2007)
big voice
n. (16 Mar 2005)
bike-whack
v. (30 Jul 2007)
biking
n. (29 Apr 2004)
bio-ink
n. (9 Mar 2007)
birth control glasses
n.pl. (28 Mar 2005)
bitch hook
n. (7 Nov 2005)
Bitching Betty
n. (10 Feb 2006)
blaccent
n. (10 Mar 2005)
black aspirin
n. (6 Oct 2006)
black-robe disease
n. (12 Jul 2006)
BlackBerry prayer
n. (13 Jan 2005)
blast
n. (7 Feb 2006)
bleeding deacon
n. (16 Apr 2004)
blessing way
n. (17 Sep 2007)
blocktimer
n. (23 Aug 2004)
bloody pocket syndrome
n. (25 Aug 2006)
blow a hoolie
v. phr. (9 May 2006)
blow-in
n. (13 Aug 2004)
blue angel
n. (28 Mar 2005)
blue canary
n. (5 Jun 2006)
blue juice
n. (23 May 2006)
blue light bandit
n. (31 May 2005)
blue-sky
v. (22 Sep 2004)
bluebird
n. (11 Jul 2007)
blurple
adj. (26 Jun 2006)
blute
n. (2 Feb 2006)
bodysnarking
n. (14 Mar 2009)
boi
n. (26 Jul 2005)
bomber
n. (6 Apr 2005)
bonk
n. (1 Oct 2004)
bonk
v. (11 Apr 2006)
boo word
n. (4 Sep 2006)
boo-boo face
n. (10 Jan 2005)
boohoo breakfast
n. (22 Aug 2007)
boojack
n. (31 May 2005)
boondocking
n. (23 May 2005)
booster bag
n. (2 Dec 2004)
boot party
n. (11 Jan 2006)
booth capturing
n. (11 May 2004)
bootleg
adj. (21 Sep 2004)
bootleg trail
n. (4 Sep 2007)
boots on the ground
n.pl. (3 Dec 2004)
borrow leg
v. phr. (2 Feb 2007)
botnet
n. (30 Apr 2004)
bottle show
n. (19 Dec 2006)
bougie
n. (22 Dec 2004)
bouma shape
n. (3 Sep 2004)
bounce box
n. (14 Jun 2007)
box office
n. (27 Jun 2007)
boy beater
n. (12 May 2004)
bozocity
n. (26 Apr 2006)
Bradley effect
n. (6 Nov 2006)
break off
v. phr. (2 Jun 2005)
breastaurant
n. (1 Dec 2004)
brekko
n. (11 Feb 2005)
brick
v. (19 May 2006)
bright eyes
n.pl. (2 Jun 2005)
bring the wood
v. phr. (12 Oct 2005)
broheim
n. (9 Jun 2006)
bromance
n. (14 Mar 2009)
brown-bag
v. (10 Apr 2007)
brownfield
n. (7 May 2004)
bubblehead
n. (23 Jun 2006)
buckaloose
adj. (14 Jun 2004)
bucket baby
n. (26 Apr 2007)
bucket biologist
n. (1 Sep 2006)
buckle bunny
n. (17 Jun 2004)
budget dust
n. (10 Jun 2005)
buffet flat
n. (2 Sep 2004)
bug
n. (4 Nov 2005)
Bugs Bunny changeup
n. (29 Jun 2004)
bukateria
n. (24 May 2004)
bull tailing
n. (12 May 2004)
bullet sponge
n. (17 Oct 2006)
bullets and beans
n.pl. (1 Aug 2005)
bunhead
n. (1 Dec 2006)
burn off
v. (15 Feb 2005)
burner
n. (6 Jan 2005)
burping bedpost
n. (22 Nov 2006)
bus-left
other. (7 Sep 2005)
buscon
n. (10 Aug 2004)
bust on someone
v. phr. (31 Aug 2007)
bustdown
n. (22 Feb 2005)
butter and eggs
n. (23 Jan 2006)
buzzard’s luck
n. (23 Nov 2005)
Recent Catchwords
macaroon technique
n. (2/19)
sorry gift
n. (2/19)
break the ton
v. phr. (2/19)
ghost shift
n. (2/17)
stock
n. (2/13)
startle factor
n. (2/13)
hair crush
n. (2/13)
seagen
n. (2/13)
rollup
n. (11/30)
simming
n. (11/8)
nimbleton
n. (11/6)
kitchen
n. (11/6)
skuke
n. (11/6)
parlor
n. (11/6)
broccoli journalism
n. (10/19)
strap hanging
n. (10/8)
parclo
n. (10/8)
Dipper
n. (10/8)
jeggings
n. (10/5)
dittoism
n. (10/5)
 
More catchwords...
Lexicographer's Rules
New verses to “My Darling Clementine”
(4/19)
How do you pronounce “both”? Please take the survey!
(3/9)
Garbanzos or chickpeas?
(3/4)
Buzzwords of 2009 in the New York Times
(12/20)
A note found inside Birds of the Pacific Coast
(12/16)
Now accepting nominations for the 2009 “word of the year” and the 2000-9 “word of the decade”
(11/15)
How much underworld slang is still used from 80 years ago?
(10/27)
Remembering William Safire
(9/27)
The elephant in the language
(8/12)
Updates will continue to be slow for Double-Tongued
(7/19)
 
More blog entries...
Find A Word »
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
0-9
Search
Search Site
Google Site Search
Recent searches
:
cougar…
thrown under bus…
cut…
off hook…
off chain…
off chain…
off chain…
-deck…
-deck…
t call…
-deck…
-deck…
New Comments
urbanclothingguy commented on
sorry gift
(8/20)
Lolo commented on
vacationship
(8/17)
teresag commented on
pump head
(8/3)
kcjones007 commented on
wooby
(7/15)
brianbrockhoff commented on
gapology
(6/30)
Barbara Fischkin commented on
hand-over-hand
(5/8)
bunica commented on
tent pole
(5/5)
rayray commented on
strap hanging
(4/29)
regus_patoff commented on
Yankee dime
(4/27)
regus_patoff commented on
rollup
(4/27)
A loves T commented on
Yankee dime
(4/27)
Jenny35 commented on
mouth-breather
(4/21)
8words commented on
broccoli journalism
(4/12)
Charity Hallet commented on
sorry gift
(4/12)
Charity Hallet commented on
dead money
(4/12)
Subscribe to the RSS feed.
•
Subscribe to the mailing list.
•
Browse the archive
.
•
Add to Technorati Favorites.
•
© 1999-2009 by
Grant Barrett
, Double-Tongued Dictionary, New York City.