Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States: Difference between revisions
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; balls-up : (vulgar) error, mistake, [[SNAFU]] (Balls-up is commonly misinterpreted as referring to the [[testicles]]; however, it is in fact an old horseman's term referring to when the hooves get packed with snow)
; bang to rights : dead to rights
; banger : 1 sausage (from sausages tending to burst during frying),
2 old car (allusion to their tendency to [[backfire]]) ; bap: soft bread roll or a sandwich made from it, in plural also used as slang for breasts
; barmaid, barman : female and male [[bartender]]
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