"B" Slang

buckshee

General

Something you got for nothing. Free, gratis, on the house. In military use it covers anything spare or unaccounted for — kit, rations, a seat on a flight — that you didn't have to sign for or pay for.

bud

Street

The dried flowering part of the cannabis plant that is smoked.

budder

Street

A smooth, creamy cannabis extract with a consistency like butter or peanut butter, made by whipping during processing.

buddha belly

General

Slang for excess belly fat, giving a rounded 'Buddha' stomach.

budge

General

By extension, the trade of such sneaking theft — 'going on the budge'.

budtender

Street

A salesperson at a cannabis dispensary who advises customers and dispenses product.

buena onda

General

Describes a person, place, or situation with good vibes or a friendly attitude.

buff

British Mle

Physically attractive — usually describing someone's looks or physique.

buff and turf

General

The combined manoeuvre of making a patient look well worked-up ('buff') and then transferring them to another service ('turf').

buffering

Gaming

You feed the next command in early, while a move or animation is still playing, and the game holds it in its input buffer until it's allowed to execute. Result: frame-perfect links and cancels without inhuman timing.

bug

General

A split-bolt wire connector — the chunky brass or copper clamp electricians use to tap or splice large-gauge conductors. Called a 'bug' because the body kind of looks like a beetle once it's wrapped up in rubber and tape. You'll hear sparkies ask for 'a bug and some 33' (Scotch 33 tape).

bug juice

General

The neon-bright powdered fruit drink served on the mess deck — basically institutional Kool-Aid. Comes in violent reds, oranges, greens. Universally loved and mocked in the same breath; the running gag is that the same stuff in your cup is used to clean the deck tiles.

bug out

General

To leave hastily, often to escape something.

bugger off

General

To leave; a mildly rude command to go away.

buggered

General

Extremely tired; of an object, broken or ruined.

buggin

Pop

Being amazed or freaked out in a good way.

buggy

General

On the structural side: the chief's command vehicle, usually a marked SUV or Suburban kitted out with radios and a light bar. On the wildland side: a "crew buggy" is the purpose-built transport that carries a 20-person hand crew (hotshots, Type 2) plus their tools, line gear, and chainsaws to the fire — basically a hardened minibus with cages, gear bins, and tow capacity.

buidl

Internet

An intentional misspelling of 'build' urging people to actually construct products and contribute to the ecosystem rather than only speculate; a play on HODL.

buka

Street

A buka is an informal, inexpensive food stall or eatery, often just a shed or open-air setup, serving home-style Nigerian meals like rice, stew, and swallow. The word gave rise to the pan-Nigerian term 'bukateria' for a row of such food stalls.

buki

Street

Describes a person or thing that is strange, odd, or not to be trusted. Also spelled 'booky' or 'bookie'.

buku

Street

A lot. A heap. More than you can be bothered to count. Standard issue in New Orleans speech and Southern rap lyrics, where 'buku' just sounds righter than 'a bunch'.

bulin

General

A small bachelor apartment or private room, often used as a romantic hideaway. The source is debated, with French argot 'boulin' (a hole/nook, slang for a bed) the leading candidate.

buljol

General

A breakfast dish of shredded salted cod tossed raw with tomatoes, onions, olive oil and hot pepper. Also buljhol.

bulk

Internet

Used as a noun for a muscle-gaining phase or the added size it produces, as in 'I'm on a bulk' or 'he's carrying good bulk.'

bulking

General

A training phase focused on gaining muscle mass by eating in a caloric surplus alongside heavy resistance training.

bull and cow

General

Cockney rhyming slang for 'row', meaning a heated argument or barney. Sometimes clipped to 'bull'. The pairing fits because bulls and cows together suggest a domestic, which is exactly what a row often is.

bull hauler

General

A driver pulling a livestock pot — those distinctive ventilated aluminium trailers with the slatted sides. The job has a reputation: drivers run hard because the cargo is alive and stressed, the trailers are a nightmare to wash out, and you smell like the load for days. Bull haulers have an outsized place in CB culture and are known for both their speed and their willingness to help other drivers.

bull market

General

A prolonged rally, conventionally a 20%+ rise off the lows. Sentiment is risk-on, retail piles in late, every dip gets bought. Lasts until it doesn't.

bull run

Internet

Used loosely to describe any good streak of momentum, money, or success.

bull rush

General

A pass-rush technique in which the defender charges straight ahead and overpowers the blocker with brute strength to collapse the pocket.

bull trap

Internet

A deceptive upward move that tempts buyers into thinking a rally has begun, only for the price to reverse and fall, trapping them in losses.

bulla

General

A dense, round flat cake sweetened with molasses and spiced with ginger, often eaten with avocado.

bullet

General

A sweet — specifically a hard boiled one, the kind that rattles in a paper bag. Comes from the shape: small, round, hard, like the lead shot of old. A bag of bullets from the corner shop is a Tyneside childhood staple.

bullet cancel

Gaming

When you destroy an enemy (or meet a condition), its already-fired bullets vanish from the screen — frequently converting into score items. A high-score staple.

bulletproof

General

Describes snow that is so hard, frozen, and compacted that edges struggle to bite into it. Bulletproof conditions make for scratchy, unforgiving riding.

bullish

Internet

Holding a positive outlook that prices will rise. Beyond markets, 'bullish on X' broadly signals optimism about something.

bultero

General

Someone who talks big and shows off; all bark. From 'bulto' (bulk/show).

bum beef

Street

A charge an inmate insists is bogus, or a false accusation made by another prisoner.

bumf

General

Pointless paperwork. Forms, memos, circulars — the kind of admin that lands in your tray and goes straight in the bin. Universal military gripe.

bummer

General

Used alone as a sympathetic response to bad news.

bummy

Internet

Used for things that are cheap, ugly, or low quality.

bump off

Street

To bump off a person is to murder them. It was widely used in gangster slang and pulp fiction.

bumper plates

General

Rubber-coated weight plates designed to be dropped from height without damaging the floor or bar, used in Olympic lifting and CrossFit.

bumping

Music

Describes music played loud, especially heavy bass.

bumpy cake

General

A Detroit-original dessert from Sanders Confectionery: devil's food cake, parallel ridges of vanilla buttercream piped across the top, then the whole thing draped in chocolate fudge ganache that hardens over the bumps. Birthday cake of choice for generations of Michigan kids.

bun

Street

To 'give bun' is to cheat on your partner; to 'get bun' is to be cheated on. A giant theme in dancehall.

bunco

Street

Bunco (also bunko) is a confidence swindle or fraud, and as a verb means to cheat someone out of money. Police 'bunco squads' targeted such scams.

bundle

General

A pre-paid multi-month sub — 3, 6, or 12 months at a percentage off the monthly rate. Creators use bundles to lock in cash upfront and stop fans from churning after one good week; smart subs use them to halve the price.