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    B.A.
n American
    a troublesome, violent or antisocial person. An abbreviation of badass or ‘bad attitude’. The letters were used as the initials of the surly black hero ‘B.A. Baracas’ played by Mr T in the US television series
The A-Team
in the 1980s.
    bab
n British
    a (doner or shish) kebab. An item of student slang in use in London and elsewhere since around 2000.
    We’re going to pick up a bab and then back to watch the match.
    babber
n British
    a. a baby or infant
    b. a friend, companion, ‘mate’
    The term was in use in 2003 and 2004, especially in the Bristol area and South Wales.
    babe, babes, baby
n
    a. a sweetheart, lover. A usage imported from the USA into Britain via films, pop songs, etc. The word had begun to be used unselfconsciously in Britain in the late 1970s, particularly in the form babes and mainly by working-class speakers. It is used by both sexes, but when used by men to women it can be considered patronising or offensive.
    b. in the form a ‘babe’, an attractive female. The word became a key term in male adolescent speech, first in the USA and, later, elsewhere from the late 1980s.
    See also
robobabe
    babe-magnet
n
    an attractive or supposedly irresistible male. A common characterisation from the 1990s. Fanny-magnet is a more vulgar British variant.
    babes, the babes
n
,
adj
    (something) excellent, superlative. The usage, based on ‘babes’ as a term of endearment and by analogy with the colloquial expression ‘the tops’, has been recorded in Scotland and is sometimes heard elsewhere.
    I tell you, it’s the babes!

The do round Kirsty’s last night was babes!
    babia-majora
n American
    an extremely attractive woman or women. A jocular item of ersatz slang invented for the cult US TV comedy sketches and movie
Wayne’s World
, by alteration of the Latin designation of the outer female genitals
labia majora
.
    baby blues
n pl
    the eyes. A humorous adult phrase from the clichéd, twee or amorous description, ‘baby-blue eyes’.
    baby giraffe
n British
    half
a pint of beer. A piece of rhyming slang in vogue among pub habitués since 2000.
    Babylon
n British
    a. racist white society, Britain. The term originates in the biblical imagery of the rastas , but has spread, largely via the medium of reggae music, to other black youth and disaffected whites.
    b. the Babylon the police force when viewed as tokens of oppression or white racist authority. A specific usage of the more general term for society, now widely heard among white youth.
    baccy billup
n British
    a cigarette. In playground parlance since 2000. Baccy is an old abbreviation of tobacco; billup may be an alteration of build (up) in the slang sense of construct, e.g. a hand rolled cigarette or joint .
    bachelorette
n British
    a single woman. A humorous categorisation used by students since 2000.
    back
n American
    a. the backside, buttocks, especially if large or prominent. This term from black American usage became popularised via the rap lyrics to
Baby Got Back
by Sir Mix-A-Lot (1991).
    b. a female or females seen as potential or actual sexual partners. As in the case of ass , the preceding sense quickly became generalised in this way.
    back-assed
adj American
    a. backwards, reversed
    You got it all back-assed.
    b. perverse or clumsy
    a back-assed way of doing things
    backatcha!
exclamation American
    the shortening of ‘(right) back at you!’ is used typically in reciprocation of a compliment
    â€œYour outfit rocks.” “Backatcha!”
    backdoor
vb
    a. to commit adultery (with)
    â€˜In Australia, you’d never get away with some of the things I’ve seen here because you’d get a punch in the mouth. We don’t go in for backdooring someone else’s woman.’

(Jamie Addicoat, fitness instructor,
Observer
, 30 April 1989)
    b. to act illicitly, covertly or deviously; to deceive or betray
    backdoor man