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Comeback (publicity), a return to prominence by a well-known person Comeback (retort), a witty response to an insult or criticism Comeback (sports), an event where an athlete or team losing a contest by a wide margin ultimately prevails
Derived from Jamaican slang and believed to come from the term "blood brothers". boujee (US: / ˈ b uː ʒ i / ⓘ) High-class/materialistic. Derived from bourgeoisie. [21] bop A derogatory term, usually for females, suggesting excessive flirtatiousness or promiscuity. The term can also be used to describe an exceptionally good song. [22] [23 ...
Some back slang has entered Standard English. For example, the term yob was originally back slang for "boy". Back slang is not restricted to words spoken phonemically backwards. English frequently makes use of diphthongs, which is an issue for back slang since diphthongs cannot be reversed. The resulting fix slightly alters the traditional back ...
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...
What 'big back' and other terms mean—and how we got here. ... Baxter theorizes that “big back” became “a term to be levied at all fat ... “I think teens come up with better ideas than we ...
Dutch slang for police. Slops "Back-slang" formation from "police" spelled backwards, "ecilop" = "slop". Common before World War II in the UK. Rare today. Smokey State police or troopers. Derived from over-the-road trucker CB radio calls, as popularized by the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit. Though the portrayal of police in that movie was ...
A slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing. [1] It also often refers to the language exclusively used by the members of particular in-groups in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.
CB slang is the distinctive anti-language, argot, or cant which developed among users of Citizens Band radio (CB), especially truck drivers in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s. [ 1 ]