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~ (v) babble; blather, smatter, blether, blither; ripple, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle; spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, sing, babble out, blab out
~ of arts in library science (n) ABLS
~ of arts in nursing (n) BAN
~ of literature (n) BLitt
~ of naval science (n) BNS
~ of science in architecture (n) BSArch
~ (v) endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support; back; second, endorse, indorse; back; back; back; bet on, gage, stake, game, punt; back; back up; back
~ breaker (n) acid, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen
backbone ~ (n) anchor, mainstay, keystone, linchpin, lynchpin; grit, guts, moxie, sand, gumption; spinal column, vertebral column, spine, back, rachis; spine; backbone
backside ~ (n) rear, back end; buttocks, nates, arse, butt, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end,
rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass
~-lettuce-tomato sandwich (n) BLT
bacteriophage ~ (n) phage
~ (v) perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound; thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, bilk; regulate
balance ~ (n) balance; balance; proportion, proportionality; equilibrium, equipoise, counterbalance; remainder, residual, residue, residuum, rest; balance; Libra; Libra, Libra the Balance, Libra the Scales; symmetry, symmetricalness, correspondence; counterweight, counterbalance, counterpoise, equalizer, equaliser; balance wheel; balance
~ (n) ball; musket ball; globe, orb; ball; testis, testicle, orchis, ballock, bollock, nut, egg; ball; Lucille Ball; clod, glob, lump, clump, chunk; formal; ball; ball; ball
~ up (v) botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks,
bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
~ missile defense organization (n) BMDO
balmy ~ (a) barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts,
nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky; mild, soft
~ (n) knock, bash, smash, belt; clap, eruption, blast, bam; fringe; boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick; hit, smash, smasher, strike
~ (v) slam; bang; slam; bang; sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have
intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, get it on, bonk; spang
~-up (a) bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad(p), peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing
barbed ~ (a) biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious; barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny
barbellate ~ (a) barbed, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny
~ (a) au naturel(p), naked, nude; bare(a), scanty, spare; unsheathed; bare; bare(a), marginal; bare(a), mere(a), simple(a); unfinished; barren, bleak, desolate, stark; stripped; plain, spare, unembellished, unornamented
~ (v) vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate,
throw up
barmy ~ (a) zestful, yeasty, zesty; balmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts,
nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky
~ friedrich wilhelm ludolf gerhard augustin von steuben (n) Steuben
~ emmusca orczy (n) Orczy
barthold ~ george niebuhr (n) Niebuhr
bartolome ~ esteban murillo (n) Murillo
~ (n) base of operations; foundation, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure; bag; base; base; floor; basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone; pedestal, stand; nucleotide; alkali; base; basis; radix; home; al-Qaeda, Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, al-Qaida; root, root word, stem, theme, radical; infrastructure; base; base; base
~ (n) asshole, cocksucker, dickhead, shit, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, whoreson, son of a bitch, SOB; by-blow, love child, illegitimate child, illegitimate, whoreson; mongrel
~ (n) batch; deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty,
pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad; clutch
bathetic ~ (a) drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy
bats ~ (a) balmy, barmy, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts,
nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky
~-acid (n) acid, back breaker, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen
batty ~ (a) balmy, barmy, bats, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts,
nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky
bawd ~ (n) prostitute, cocotte, whore, harlot, tart, cyprian, fancy woman, working girl, sporting lady, lady of pleasure, woman of the
street
~ out (v) call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide,
berate, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast
~ intimate (v) sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, have intercourse,
have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk
~ sick (v) vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate,
throw up
~ (v) bear; give birth, deliver, birth, have; digest, endure, stick out, stomach, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up; bear; turn out; take over, accept, assume; hold, carry, contain; yield, pay; wear; behave, acquit, deport, conduct, comport, carry; hold; hold, carry; have a bun in the oven, carry, gestate, expect
~ on (v) refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, touch, touch on, have-to doe with; affect, impact, bear upon, touch on, touch; push; continue, uphold, carry on, preserve
~ (v) beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish; beat up, work over; beat; pound, thump; beat; drum, thrum; beat; flap; beat; scramble; beat; beat; bunk; tick, ticktock, ticktack; flap; beat; pulsate, quiver; beat; beat; beat; outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, circumvent; perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound; exhaust, wash up, tucker, tucker out
beau ~ (n) boyfriend, fellow, swain, young man; dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse
beautify ~ (v) fancify, embellish, prettify; deck, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish; decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish
becharm ~ (v) charm; capture, enamour, trance, catch, enamor, captivate, beguile, charm, fascinate, bewitch, entrance, enchant
bed ~ (v) bed; bed; bed; sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have
intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk; go to bed, turn in, crawl in, kip down, hit the hay, hit the sack, sack out, go to sleep, retire
bedevil ~ (v) torment, rag, crucify, dun, frustrate; confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, confound, discombobulate
bedlam ~ (n) chaos, pandemonium, topsy-turvydom, topsy-turvyness; booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake
pit
befuddled ~ (a) befogged; baffled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea; addled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded
~ (n) beginning; commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset; beginning; origin, root, rootage, source; start, commencement
beguile ~ (v) juggle, hoodwink; capture, enamour, trance, catch, becharm, enamor, captivate, charm, fascinate, bewitch, entrance, enchant
~ (n) buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear,
rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, derriere, fanny, ass
~ along (v) rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, step on it
bemused ~ (a) deep in thought(p), lost(p), preoccupied; baffled, befuddled, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea
~ prostatic hyperplasia (n) BPH
berate ~ (v) call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide,
bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast
beset ~ (v) harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, plague, molest, provoke; set upon; encrust, incrust
besotted ~ (a) blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed,
soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet
betoken ~ (v) bespeak, indicate, point, signal; bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
betray ~ (v) bewray; sell; fail; cheat on, cheat, cuckold, wander; denounce, tell on, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag; deceive, lead astray
bewilder ~ (v) perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound; bemuse, discombobulate, throw
bewitch ~ (v) capture, enamour, trance, catch, becharm, enamor, captivate, beguile, charm, fascinate, entrance, enchant; magnetize, mesmerize, mesmerise, magnetise, spellbind; hex, glamour, witch, enchant, jinx
~ (a) large; big; bad; big; large, prominent; big(a), heavy(a); boastful, braggart(a), bragging(a), braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandizing, self-aggrandising; swelled, vainglorious; adult, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup; big; large, magnanimous; bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded; big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with child(p)
~ (n) measure; account, invoice; note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, greenback; bill; circular, handbill, broadside, broadsheet, flier, flyer, throwaway; poster, posting, placard, notice, card; bill; billhook; peak, eyeshade, visor, vizor; beak, neb, nib, pecker
~ (v) adhere, hold fast, bond, stick, stick to; tie, attach, bond; bind; bandage; tie down, tie up, truss; oblige, hold, obligate; bind; tie; bind; constipate
~ (v) gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, pig
out, satiate, scarf out
~ (n) bird; fowl; dame, doll, wench, skirt, chick; boo, hoot, Bronx cheer, hiss, raspberry, razzing, razz, snort; shuttlecock, birdie, shuttle
bit ~ (n) spot; chip, flake, fleck, scrap; moment, mo, minute, second; piece; bit; bit; morsel, bite; snatch; act, routine, number, turn; bit; bit
bittersweet ~ (n) bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade, woody nightshade, Solanum dulcamara; American bittersweet, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, staff vine, waxwork, shrubby bittersweet, Celastrus scandens
bittie ~ (a) bitty, teensy, teentsy, teeny, wee, weeny, weensy, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, itty-bitty, itsy-bitsy
bitty ~ (a) bittie, teensy, teentsy, teeny, wee, weeny, weensy, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, itty-bitty, itsy-bitsy
blab ~ (v) spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out; chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
~ (v) chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, gabble
~ (a) black; black; black; bleak, dim; dark, sinister; calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful; blackened; pitch-black, pitch-dark; grim, mordant; black; bootleg, black-market, contraband, smuggled; disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful; black; smutty
blame ~ (a) blasted, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal
blamed ~ (a) blasted, blame, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal
blasted ~ (a) blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal
~ (v) intermix, immingle, intermingle; go, blend in; flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge
blessed ~ (a) blest; blessed; blasted, blame, blamed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal; beatified; blessed; blessed
blighter ~ (n) pest, cuss, pesterer, gadfly; chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, cuss, bloke
~ drunk (a) besotted, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked,
soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet
~ (a) acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic; blistery; hot, red-hot
block ~ (v) barricade, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar; obstruct, blockade, hinder, stymie, stymy, embarrass; stop, halt, kibosh; jam; block; block; obstruct; block; stuff, lug, choke up; obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, close up; block; parry, deflect; forget, blank out, draw a blank; block; block; freeze, immobilize, immobilise
blockade ~ (v) obstruct, block, hinder, stymie, stymy, embarrass; barricade, block, stop, block off, block up, bar; block off; seal off
blockhead ~ (n) dunce, dunderhead, numskull, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead
~ (n) blood; blood; rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, roue; lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock; blood
~ line (n) lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
~-oxygenation level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging (n) BOLD FMRI
~-red (a) red, reddish, ruddy, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet
bloodline ~ (n) lineage, line, line of descent, descent, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock; pedigree
~ (n) blooming; flower, blossom; bloom of youth, salad days; blush, flush, rosiness; flower, prime, peak, heyday, blossom, efflorescence, flush; efflorescence
blotto ~ (a) besotted, blind drunk, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed,
soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet
~ (v) blow; blow; blow; float, drift, be adrift; blow; blow; botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks,
bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up; waste, squander; blow; blow; blow; fellate, suck, go down on; blow; blow; blow; shove off, shove along; blow; blow; boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, bluster, vaunt, gasconade; blow; blow out, burn out; blow
~ a fuse (v) flip one's lid, blow up, throw a fit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, have kittens, have a fit, combust, blow one's stack,
fly off the handle, flip one's wig, lose one's temper, go ballistic
~ one's stack (v) flip one's lid, blow up, throw a fit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, have kittens, have a fit, combust, fly off the handle,
flip one's wig, lose one's temper, blow a fuse, go ballistic
~ up (v) explode, detonate, set off; enlarge, magnify; flip one's lid, throw a fit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, have kittens, have a fit, combust, blow one's stack, fly off the
handle, flip one's wig, lose one's temper, blow a fuse, go ballistic; embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, dramatize, dramatise; detonate, explode; inflate, expand, amplify; inflate; puff, puff up, puff out
~ (a) bluish, blueish; blue; gloomy, grim, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited; blasphemous, profane; gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy; aristocratic, aristocratical, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician; blue(a), puritanic, puritanical; dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
~ (v) botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix
up, bollocks, bollocks up, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
bod ~ (n) human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, chassis, frame, form, flesh
bode ~ (v) portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict
bodge ~ (v) botch, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks,
bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
boggy ~ (a) marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged
bollix ~ (v) botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix up, bollocks,
bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
~ up (v) botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollocks,
bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
bollocks ~ (v) botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix
up, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
~ up (v) botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix
up, bollocks, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
bomber ~ (n) bomber; bomber; grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich,
torpedo, wedge, zep
bonehead ~ (n) dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, lunkhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, dumbass, fuckhead
bonk ~ (v) sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have
intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on; sock, bop, whop, whap, bash
bonkers ~ (a) balmy, barmy, bats, batty, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts,
nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky
~ hatch (n) Bedlam, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit
boodle ~ (n) bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons,
sugar, wampum; Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, stops
~ (n) book; volume; record, record book; script, playscript; ledger, leger, account book, book of account; book; rule book; Koran, Quran, al-Qur'an; Bible, Christian Bible, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word of God, Word; book; book
booster ~ (n) supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, friend; promoter, plugger; shoplifter, lifter; booster amplifier, booster station, relay link, relay station, relay transmitter; booster rocket, booster unit, takeoff booster, takeoff rocket; booster dose, booster shot, recall dose
~ (v) surround, environ, ring, skirt; bound; frame, frame in; edge; adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on
~ (v) bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks,
bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
~ up (v) botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks,
bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
~ (v) trouble oneself, trouble, inconvenience oneself; annoy, rag, get to, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil; trouble, put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode; bother; bother; bother
bothersome ~ (a) annoying, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing
~ (n) underside, undersurface; bottom; buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear,
rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, behind, derriere, fanny, ass; bottom of the inning; bed; bottomland; freighter, merchantman, merchant ship
~ (v) jump, leap, spring; border; restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, confine, throttle; bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet
~ stringed instrument (n) string
brace ~ (n) brace; couple, pair, twosome, twain, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad; pair; brace; brace; suspender, gallus; braces, orthodontic braces; bitstock; bracing
~ (n) encephalon; brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit; mind, head, psyche, nous; genius, mastermind, brainiac, Einstein; brain
brassy ~ (a) brasslike; cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy; audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent
braxton ~ bragg (n) Bragg
~ (n) breadstuff, staff of life; boodle, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons,
sugar, wampum
break ~ (n) interruption; good luck, happy chance; fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture; rupture, breach, severance, rift, falling out; respite, recess, time out; breakage, breaking; pause, intermission, interruption, suspension; fracture; break; break; break; break of serve; interruption, disruption, gap; break; open frame; breakout, jailbreak, gaolbreak, prisonbreak, prison-breaking
~ (v) interrupt; separate, split up, fall apart, come apart; break; bust; break; transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, breach; break out, break away; break; burst, erupt; break off, discontinue, stop; break in; break in; violate, go against; better; unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, give away, let out; break; fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break down; break away; break; break; dampen, damp, soften, weaken; break; break; break; break; break; break; break; break; break; separate, part, split up, split, break up; demote, bump, relegate, kick downstairs; bankrupt, ruin, smash; break; break; collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, founder; break dance, break-dance; break; break up; break; break; wear, wear out, bust, fall apart; break off, snap off; break; break; get out, get around; pause, intermit; break; break; break; break; break; recrudesce, develop; crack, check; break; break; fracture; break; break
~ away (v) break, break out; chip, chip off, come off, break off; break; secede, splinter; scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop
~ down (v) crush; analyze, analyse, dissect, take apart; lose it, snap; fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break; crumble, crumple, tumble, collapse; break down; decompose, break up; collapse
~ of day (n) dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow
~ of the day (n) dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow
~ up (v) disperse, dissipate, dispel, scatter; separate, part, split up, split, break; break up; crash, break apart; interrupt, disrupt, cut off; dissolve, resolve; crack up, crack, crock up, collapse; disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break apart; break; sever; pick; calve; adjourn, recess; dissolve; dissolve; fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise; disperse, scatter; decompose, break down; crack up
~ (n) genteelness, gentility; education, training; bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing; breeding; reproduction, procreation, facts of life
briar ~ (n) sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria; bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier, Smilax rotundifolia; tree heath, brier, Erica arborea; briar pipe
briary ~ (a) barbed, barbellate, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny
brier ~ (n) brierpatch, brier patch; brier; sweetbrier, sweetbriar, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria; bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, briar, Smilax rotundifolia; tree heath, briar, Erica arborea
briery ~ (a) barbed, barbellate, briary, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny
brigham ~ young (n) Young
bring ~ (v) convey, take; bring; work, play, wreak, make for; get, convey, fetch; land; bring; institute; lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add; fetch, bring in; bring; bring
~ down (v) lower, take down, let down, get down; overthrow, subvert, overturn; inflict, visit, impose; land, put down; bring down; reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut
~ out (v) uncover, unveil, reveal; let out; publish, put out, issue, release; set off; produce, bring on; bring out; get out; introduce; unwrap, disclose, let on, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out
~ up (v) raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, put forward, call forth; rear, raise, nurture, parent; bring up; raise, lift, elevate, get up; bring up; raise; mention, advert, cite, name, refer; boot, reboot
~ (a) alert, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy; bracing, fresh, refreshing, refreshful, tonic; brisk
bristled ~ (a) barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny
bristly ~ (a) prickly, splenetic, waspish; barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny
~ (a) wide; across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket(a), encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide; unspecific; unsubtle; broad(a), full(a); spacious, wide; broad; large-minded, liberal, tolerant
~ (v) air, send, beam, transmit; broadcast; circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around
~ (v) digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, abide, suffer, put up
~ automatic rifle (n) BAR
~ along (v) rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, belt along, step on it
buggy ~ (a) balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts,
nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky; buggy
build ~ (n) physique, body-build, habitus; human body, physical body, material body, soma, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
bulge ~ (n) bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence
~ (n) bull; bruiser, strapper, Samson; bullshit, Irish bull, horseshit, shit, crap, dogshit; bull; cop, copper, fuzz, pig; bull; Taurus; Taurus, Taurus the Bull; bull's eye; papal bull; bull
~ (a) bang-up, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad(p), peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing
~ (v) mooch, cadge, grub, sponge; bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around,
lounge about
~ (n) rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git; tramp, hobo; idler, loafer, do-nothing, layabout; buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear
end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass
~ about (v) bum, bum around, arse around, arse about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around,
lounge about
~ around (v) bum, bum about, arse around, arse about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around,
lounge about
bumble ~ (v) botch, bodge, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks,
bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up; stumble, falter; stutter, stammer, falter
bump ~ (n) bump; bulge, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence; blow
bunco ~ (n) bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam
~ (v) victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con
~ game (n) bunco, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam
~ (v) botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks,
bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up; bungle
bunk ~ (v) beat; bunk; scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break
away
bunko ~ (n) bunco, bunco game, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam
~ game (n) bunco, bunco game, bunko, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam
buns ~ (n) buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end,
rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass
~ of alcohol tobacco and firearms (n) ATF
~ of diplomatic security (n) DS
~ of intelligence and research (n) INR
~ of justice assistance (n) BJA
~ of justice statistics (n) BJS
burred ~ (a) barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny
burrill ~ bernard crohn (n) Crohn
burry ~ (a) barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny
~ (n) shrub; bush; scrub, chaparral; George Bush, George W. Bush, George Walker Bush, President Bush, President George W. Bush, Dubyuh, Dubya; Vannevar Bush; George Bush, George H.W. Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, President Bush; pubic hair, crotch hair
butt ~ (n) butt end; butt; goat, laughingstock, stooge; buttocks, nates, arse, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end,
rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass; target; cigarette, cigaret, coffin nail, fag; butt joint; butt; stub
buttocks ~ (n) nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end,
rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass
buxom ~ (a) bosomy, busty, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed; zaftig, zoftig
~ the farm (v) die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, conk, give-up the ghost, drop
dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it
bye ~ (n) pass; adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby, good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara,
so long
~-bye (n) adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby, good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara,
so long
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