Free Dictionary of Contemporary Slang by Tony Thorne Page B

n
    a. a secret lover, especially a married woman’s lover. The term is originally black American slang dating from at least the 1950s.
    â€˜I’m your backdoor man… the men don’t know, but the little girls understand.’

(
Back Door Man
, recorded by The Doors, 1968)
    b. a man who sodomises. This usage is mainly applied to and by heterosexuals. The Australian ‘backdoor merchant’ means a homosexual.
    backfire
vb
    to fart. A term which is in use in Australia and has been heard occasionally in Britain, especially among schoolchildren, since the 1950s.
    back garden, back way, backdoor
n
    the anus. Predictable euphemisms which are invariably used in a sexual context, usually by heterosexuals.
    back in the day
adv
,
adj
    â€˜when I was younger’ or ‘in the past’. An item of black street-talk used especially by males, recorded in 2003. The phrase is from Caribbean usage.
    back of Bourke, the
n Australian
    the ‘back of beyond’. Bourke is a remote town in northern New South Wales.
    backsiding
n British
    chastising, denigrating, punishing. Heard in black British usage, this term probably originated in Caribbean patois.
    â€˜She give him a real good backsiding.’

(Recorded, black female student, London, January 1997)
    backslang
n
    backslang, in which a word or alteration of a word is reversed, enjoyed some popularity in Britain, chiefly among members of the underworld, the sub-proletariat and certain trades such as meat portering. It is also sometimes used by schoolchildren to disguise taboo conversations. Forms of backslang exist in other European languages, notably in the Parisian
verlan
which is still thriving. The only well-known ‘mainstream’ example of backslang is yob from boy.
    Compare
pig Latin
    backsnurging
n British
    sniffing female underwear for sexual pleasure
    â€˜We’ve discovered how the EastEnders actor, who plays Dirty Den, is a secret backsnurger.’

(
Sunday Sport
, 9 May 2004)
    back-up
n
,
adj
    (someone who is) prepared to use force on behalf of or otherwise show solidarity with (a friend). The term, deriving from the colloquial verb phrase ‘back (someone) up’, was first part of the vocabulary of gangs, and since around 2000 extended to other speakers.
    back way
n See
back garden
    backy
n British
    a ride on the back of someone’s bicycle.
Compare
croggie
    bacon 1
n American
    a police officer or the police in general. One of several terms in underworld and student usage inspired by the 1960s epithet pig . It can occur in the form of‘(the) bacon’ for the police in general or ‘a bacon’, denoting an individual officer.
    If you ask me he’s bacon.
It’s the bacon, let’s book!
    bacon 2 , bacon head
n British
    a paedophile. The usage comes from the rhyming-slang phrase ‘bacon bonce’ for nonce and was recorded by the English Project at Winchester Prison in 2010.
    bacon band
n British
    a bulging midriff as displayed e.g. between abbreviated top and low-cut trousers/skirt. A synonym for muffin top recorded in 2006.
    bad 1
adj
    good. Originally from the terminology of the poorest black Americans, either as simple irony or based on the assumption that what is bad in the eyes of the white establishment is good for them, this usage spread via jazz musicians in the 1950s to teenagers in the 1970s. It is still primarily a black term, although it is occasionally used, rather self-consciously, by white teenagers in the USA and, under the influence of rap and hip hop , in Britain since the early 1980s. This use of bad is normally distinguished from its opposite, literal meaning by a long drawn-out pronunciation. The superlative form is ‘baddest’.
    â€˜In hip hop slang “that’s bad” can mean “that’s good”, depending on the tone of voice.’

(
Evening Standard
, 11 November 1987)
    bad 2
n American
    a fault, mistake. A key item of black