adjective

• displeasing; of poor quality; UNCOOL.

  Don't talk to him, he's bogus.

  That was a bogus movie.

  More words meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing

  by Dan Piersol, Apr 27 1998  (Edit definition)

• counterfeit.

  That's a bogus watch.

  More words meaning: counterfeit

  by Dan Piersol, Apr 27 1998  (Edit definition)

• working, but unsafe or prone to breakdown. Lab-speak, often used in engineering circles.

  This is a pretty bogus setup.

  More words meaning: broken

  by Dmitri S., Sunnyvale, CA, USA, Nov 17 2002  (Edit definition)

adjective

• bad.

  I went to see the football. It was a bollocks match.

  More words meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing

  by Matthew R., Blackpool, United Kingdom, May 31 2004  (Edit definition)

interjection

• exclamation to denote general sorrow, despair, or disappointment.

  Oh, bollocks!

  More words meaning: exclamations (list of)
  More words meaning: to be sad, disappointed

  by Anonymous, Oct 01 2001  (Edit definition)

noun

• testicles.

  I have itchy bollocks.

  More words meaning: testicles

  by Andy, Maidenhead, Windsor and Maidenhead, UK, Aug 21 1997  (Edit definition)

• lies.

  What a load of bollocks!

  More words meaning: nonsense, lies

  by Michael Fraser, New York, NY, USA, Dec 03 1997  (Edit definition)

• something broken or messed up.

  You made a right bollocks of that.

  More words meaning: broken

  by Steve, Oct 11 1999  (Edit definition)

• exaggerated stories.

  As usual Malcolm came to the pub and talked non-stop bollocks all evening.

  More words meaning: nonsense, lies

  by Matthew R., Blackpool, United Kingdom, May 31 2004  (Edit definition)

verb

• to screw up.

  You've really bollocksed that up.

  More words meaning: to make a mistake, be incorrect, err

  by Steve, Oct 11 1999  (Edit definition)

notes

• Origin: UK.

  by Michael Fraser, New York, NY, USA, Dec 03 1997  (Edit definition)

adjective

• good; excellent; COOL. See also the bomb.

  That movie is really bomb!

  More words meaning: good, okay, cool, awesome, fun

  by Kenneth G., Miami University, USA, Nov 17 1997  (Edit definition)

noun

• good marijuana.

  I've some bomb.

  More words meaning: marijuana

  by Paolo T., Jul 08 2004  (Edit definition)

• in American football, a long forward pass.

  More words meaning: sports (related to)

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Sep 02 2009  (Edit definition)

verb

• to put graffiti on something; TAG. Also bomber (a person who "bombs,") etc.

  Phase one was one of the best train bombers.

  More words meaning: graffiti (related to)

  by Shin, Nov 30 2002  (Edit definition)

• to be disappointing.

  That party bombed.

  More words meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing
  More words meaning: to be sad, disappointed
  More words meaning: to lose, be defeated, fail

  by Anonymous, Jan 09 2003  (Edit definition)

• to fail.

  That movie bombed in the theatres.

  More words meaning: to lose, be defeated, fail

  by Anonymous, Jan 09 2003  (Edit definition)

• to drive fast and recklessly.

  He came bombing down the street and almost hit us.

  More words meaning: driving and driving maneuvers
  More words meaning: wild, ridiculous, extreme

  by Carmen E., Nov 18 2005  (Edit definition)

• to malfunction.

  Don't run Empire with less than 32K stack, it'll bomb.

  More words meaning: to break, ruin, destroy
  More words meaning: to lose, be defeated, fail

  by The Jargon File, Sep 06 2009  (Edit definition)

adjective

• very bad. Worthy of a boo.

  The fact that they lost by forty points was booey.

  More words meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing

  by Matt McPhail, Indiana State University, 200 N 7th St, Terre Haute, IN 47807, USA, Apr 20 1998  (Edit definition)

adjective

• very unattractive.

  I wouldn't touch her with a ten foot pole, she is boot!

  More words meaning: unattractive, ugly

  by James K., Calgary, AB, Canada, Jan 17 2000  (Edit definition)

noun

• someone of legal alcohol purchasing age (or with falsified identification) who buys it and sells it to underage people. Short for "boot-legger."

  I know a boot that can get this party moving.

  More words meaning: liquor store, alcohol sales
  More words meaning: to deal drugs, drug dealer

  by Iris, Alberta, Canada, Mar 10 1999  (Edit definition)

• someone new to the armed forces, i.e. someone in boot camp or who has recently left boot camp.

  Hey, boot - drop and give me 20.

  More words meaning: inexperienced
  More words meaning: military (related to)

  by Jeffrey F., Fairbanks, AK, USA, Nov 25 2001  (Edit definition)

transitive verb

• to expel.

  He got booted from the club.

  More words meaning: to restrict, forbid, eject

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Sep 02 2009  (Edit definition)

verb

• to vomit

  I booted last night.

  More words meaning: to vomit

  by John Hannan, Potsdam, NY, USA, Oct 23 1997  (Edit definition)

• to leave.

  I need to boot.

  More words meaning: to go, leave, exit

  by Tom, Great Falls, MT, USA, Dec 16 1997  (Edit definition)

• to kick someone off of an electronic interaction medium for breaking rules, being disruptive, or generally ruining people's time. Examples include IRC and online gaming.

  That guy keeps spamming. Can a moderator please boot him?

  More words meaning: computer slang
  More words meaning: to restrict, forbid, eject

  by Calli, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, Oct 23 1999  (Edit definition)

adjective

• a lower-quality version of something. For example, a shorter version of a song.

  That was a boot-leg version of the song.

  More words meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing

  by Anonymous, Apr 04 1998  (Edit definition)

noun

• an unauthorized copy.

  I got a boot-leg tape of the concert last night.

  More words meaning: to make a copy, pirate, bootleg

  by Anonymous, Jul 13 2007  (Edit definition)

verb

• to transfer unauthorized material.

  He boot-legs music on the black market.

  More words meaning: to make a copy, pirate, bootleg

  by Anonymous, Jul 13 2007  (Edit definition)

adjective

• not good, displeasing; SUCKS. As if from one's buttocks.

  Man, your lyrics are booty.

  More words meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing

  by Brad S., Little Rock, AR, USA, Nov 19 1997  (Edit definition)

noun

• sexual contact. Typically implies intercourse, but can also apply to oral sex, "fooling around," etc.

  I gotta get some booty.

  You know he's just in it for the booty.

  More words meaning: sex or not-quite-sex (ambiguous terms)

  by Brad S., Little Rock, AR, USA, Nov 19 1997  (Edit definition)

• buttocks.

  Check out her booty!

  That girl over there has some large-ass booty!

  More words meaning: buttocks, butt, ass

  by Stephanie, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Oct 13 2002  (Edit definition)

adjective

• very cold. Usually only used to describe the temperature of a place, e.g. the weather or indoors in a particular location.

  It's brick outside today.

  More words meaning: cold

  by Meeka B., Harlem, NY, USA, Mar 23 1999  (Edit definition)

noun

• an unintelligent person. Derived from "dumb as a brick."

  That kid is such a brick!

  More words meaning: abbreviations (list of)
  More words meaning: unintelligent person, idiot

  by tim g., Duluth, MN, USA, May 15 2002  (Edit definition)

• a basketball shot in which the ball bounces off the backboard and/or hits the rim, but does not go though the net.

  He keeps on hitting bricks.

  Brick!

  More words meaning: sports (related to)

  by Fox, Queens, NY, USA, Jan 27 2003  (Edit definition)

• a large quantity of drugs packaged in a brick shape, especially cocaine.

  I'm gonna buy some bricks tonight.

  More words meaning: cocaine
  More words meaning: drugs

  by Terry S., Long Island City, NY, USA, Mar 08 2003  (Edit definition)

• an external power transformer of the kind associated with laptops, modems, routers and other small computing appliances, especially one of the modern type with cords on both ends, as opposed to the type that plug directly into an outlet.

  More words meaning: computer slang

  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

• a piece of electronic or computer equipment that has been rendered unusable. Especially used to describe what happens to devices like routers or PDAs during a firmware update when the firmware image is damaged or power is lost. This term usually implies irreversibility, but equipment can sometimes be "unbricked."

  More words meaning: broken
  More words meaning: computer slang

  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

• a large cellphone.

  More words meaning: telephone, phone

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Sep 21 2009  (Edit definition)

transitive verb

• to hit with bricks.

  James's car got bricked last night.

  More words meaning: to break, ruin, destroy

  by Key, Mar 21 2006  (Edit definition)

• to render a (usually portable) electronic device unusable - i.e. as useful as a brick.

  I bricked my iPhone trying to jailbreak it.

  More words meaning: computer slang
  More words meaning: to break, ruin, destroy

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 03 2009  (Edit definition)

adjective

• extremely horrendous, embarrassing or harsh. Also brutes and bruty.

  It was brutes when Stanford got knocked out of the Final Four.

  Dude, that was a brutal way to break up with your girlfriend!

  More words meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing

  by Alli Henry, Palo Alto, CA, USA, Apr 18 1998  (Edit definition)

intransitive verb

• to joke; KID.

  Ya buggin'.

  More words meaning: to joke, kid, or jest

  by Nelli M., Jul 27 2005  (Edit definition)

• to be extremely excited.

  I'm buggin'!

  More words meaning: excited, energetic

  by Wendy R., Dallas, TX 75231, USA, May 10 2007  (Edit definition)

• to react with extreme or irrational distress or composure; FREAK OUT.

  I was bugging after she got home.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Anonymous, Sep 28 2008  (Edit definition)

noun

• An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, especially one that causes it to malfunction.

  There's a bug in the editor: it writes things out backwards.

  The system crashed because of a hardware bug.

  Fred is a winner, but he has a few bugs. (i.e. Fred is a good guy, but he has a few personality problems).

  More words meaning: a mistake, bad idea, wrong, inappropriate
  More words meaning: broken
  More words meaning: computer slang

  by The Jargon File, Aug 13 2009  (Edit definition)

transitive verb

• to pester or annoy.

  Why do you keep bugging me? Go away.

  More words meaning: to annoy, interfere, intrude

  by Anonymous, Sep 28 2008  (Edit definition)

origin

• Regarding the "unwanted and unintended property" meaning:
  
  Admiral Grace Hopper (an early computing pioneer better known for inventing the programming language COBOL) liked to tell a story in which a technician solved a malfunction in the Harvard Mark II machine by pulling an actual insect out from between the contacts of one of its relays, and she subsequently promulgated "bug" in its hackish sense as a joke about the incident (though, as she was careful to admit, she was not there when it happened). For many years the logbook associated with the incident and the actual bug in question (a moth) sat in a display case at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC). The entire story, with a picture of the logbook and the moth taped into it, is recorded in the Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 3, No. 3 (July 1981), pp. 285--286. The text of the log entry (from September 9, 1947), reads, "1545 Relay #70 Panel F (moth) in relay. First actual case of bug being found."
  
  This wording establishes that the term was already in use at the time in its current specific sense, and Hopper herself reports that the term "bug" was regularly applied to problems in radar electronics during WWII.
  
  Indeed, the use of "bug" to mean an industrial defect was already established in Thomas Edison's time, and a more specific and rather modern use can be found in an electrical handbook from 1896 (Hawkin's New Catechism of Electricity, Theo. Audel & Co.) which says, "The term "bug" is used to a limited extent to designate any fault or trouble in the connections or working of electric apparatus."
  
  It further notes that the term is said to have originated in quadruplex telegraphy and have been transferred to all electric apparatus.
  
  The latter observation may explain a common folk etymology of the term: that it came from telephone company usage, in which bugs in a telephone cable were blamed for noisy lines.
  
  Historians of the field inform us that the term was regularly used in the early days of telegraphy to refer to a variety of semi-automatic telegraphy keyers that would send a string of dots if you held them down. In fact, the Vibroplex keyers (which were among the most common of this type) even had a graphic of a beetle on them (and still do)! While the ability to send repeated dots automatically was very useful for professional morse code operators, these were also significantly trickier to use than the older manual keyers, and it could take some practice to ensure one didn't introduce extraneous dots into the code by holding the key down a fraction too long. In the hands of an inexperienced operator, a Vibroplex "bug" on the line could mean that a lot of garbled Morse would soon be coming your way.
  
  Further, the term has long been used among radio technicians to describe a device that converts electromagnetic field variations into acoustic signals. It is used to trace radio interference and look for dangerous radio emissions. Radio community usage derives from the roach-like shape of the first versions used by 19th century physicists. The first versions consisted of a coil of wire (roach body), with the two wire ends sticking out and bent back to nearly touch forming a spark gap (roach antennae). The bug is to the radio technician what the stethoscope is to the stereotypical medical doctor. This sense is almost certainly ancestral to modern use of "bug" meaning a covert monitoring device, but may also have contributed to the use of the term for the effects of radio interference itself.
  
  Actually, use of "bug" in the general sense of a disruptive event goes back to Shakespeare! (Henry VI, part III - Act V, Scene II: King Edward:
  
  "So, lie thou there. Die thou; and die our fear; For Warwick was a bug that fear'd us all."
  
  In the first edition of Samuel Johnson's dictionary one meaning of "bug" is "A frightful object; a walking spectre." This is traced to "bugbear", a Welsh term for a variety of mythological monster which (to complete the circle) has recently been reintroduced into the popular lexicon through fantasy role-playing games. In any case, in jargon the word almost never refers to insects.
  
  A careful discussion of the etymological issues can be found in a paper by Fred R. Shapiro, 1987, "Entomology of the Computer Bug: History and Folklore", American Speech 62(4):376-378.
  
  As of late 1990, the NSWC still had the bug, but had unsuccessfully tried to get the Smithsonian to accept it. The present curator of their History of American Technology Museum didn't know this and agreed that it would make a worthwhile exhibit. It was moved to the Smithsonian in mid-1991, but due to space and money constraints was not actually exhibited for years afterwards.

  by The Jargon File, Aug 13 2009  (Edit definition)

adjective

• boring.

  This party is bunk.

  More words meaning: boring

  by Anonymous, Jun 16 1997  (Edit definition)

• of poor quality; displeasing.

  This is bunk coffee.

  This cocaine is bunk.

  More words meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing

  by Anonymous, Jun 16 1997  (Edit definition)

origin

• CC suggests that the term was first used by stoners to describe bad weed, and that its scope has since broadened to describe anything that is not as good as originally expected.

  by CC, WI, USA, Jun 02 1999  (Edit definition)

noun

• an event with a displeasing outcome. See also non-bust.

  That party was a bust.

  More words meaning: something of poor quality, bad, sucks

  by Amy, Brea, CA, USA, Sep 17 1997  (Edit definition)

• breasts.

  She's got a huge bust.

  More words meaning: breast, breasts

  by Zack T., Dec 22 1998  (Edit definition)

verb

• to arrest; to be incarcerated.

  He got busted for drugs.

  More words meaning: to arrest

  by D.J. Pabst, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, Dec 19 1997  (Edit definition)

• to cause a crowd to disperse; BREAK UP. While the police "bust" a party, rave, etc., they would typically "bust up" a fight.

  The cops busted the party.

  More words meaning: to disperse

  by D.J. Pabst, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, Dec 19 1997  (Edit definition)

• to catch someone doing something they shouldn't.

  His girlfriend busted him sleeping with her best friend.

  More words meaning: to catch

  by John, Canada, Nov 16 1998  (Edit definition)

• to hurt one's self.

  He fell and busted his face on the curb.

  More words meaning: to fall, hurt, injure one's self

  by Christina K., Cleveland, TX, USA, Jan 12 1999  (Edit definition)

• to give to; hand over.

  Bust me that pen.

  More words meaning: to give

  by Tia, South Carolina, USA, Jun 24 1999  (Edit definition)

• to be very unattractive.

  She's busting!

  More words meaning: unattractive, ugly

  by Anthony, Hazlet, NJ, USA, Dec 06 2002  (Edit definition)

• to rap.

  Can you bust?

  More words meaning: to sing, rap

  by Jessica, Chicago, IL, USA, Sep 05 2003  (Edit definition)

• to punch or hit.

  If you don't shut up I'm going to bust you in the mouth.

  More words meaning: to hit, punch, slap

  by David R., Navasota, TX, USA, Jan 11 2004  (Edit definition)

• to perform a turn in an automobile.

  At the light, bust a left.

  More words meaning: driving and driving maneuvers

  by Anonymous, Aug 05 2005  (Edit definition)

• to ejaculate.

  Did you bust?

  More words meaning: to ejaculate

  by max v., Apr 24 2009  (Edit definition)

notes

• See also bust a cap, busted.

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Jun 26 2009  (Edit definition)

adjective

• extremely ugly.

  I met your boyfriend in person and he was busted!

  More words meaning: unattractive, ugly

  by La M., New York, NY, USA, Dec 02 1998  (Edit definition)

• under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

  I got so busted at the party I couldn't stand up.

  More words meaning: under the influence of alcohol, drunk
  More words meaning: under the influence of drugs

  by Angelina, Ft Lauderdale, FL, USA, May 06 1999  (Edit definition)

• broken.

  Sorry, the television is busted.

  More words meaning: broken

  by ALison, Riverside, CA, USA, Jan 06 2002  (Edit definition)

• bad, generally displeasing.

  That movie was busted.

  More words meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing

  by Mike, PA, USA, Apr 07 2002  (Edit definition)

• bedraggled.

  After her long night of partying, she looked busted.

  More words meaning: tired
  More words meaning: unattractive, ugly

  by Lillian W., New Haven, CT, USA, Jul 27 2004  (Edit definition)

notes

• See also bust.

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Jun 26 2009  (Edit definition)