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)

noun

• a last-minute or previously unplanned request to meet up with someone with the intention of having sex. Some common characteristics of a booty call: the caller is intoxicated, the call occurs at night (often after bars have stopped serving alcohol,) the callee is an acquaintance or an ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend, and the sex involves no or little emotion. The "call" in "booty call" implies a telephone call, but other methods of requesting a get-together (e.g. phone text messaging) are also valid. Abbreviated, though rarely, BC.

  He called me at 3 a.m. last night for a booty call.

  He called me for a BC.

  More words meaning: acronyms (list of)
  More words meaning: flirting, hit on, pimp, player, wing-man
  More words meaning: sexuality (related to)
  More words meaning: telephone, phone

  by Anonymous, Mar 09 2000  (Edit definition)

• the actual meeting that occurs after a successful call has been made.

  Damn I was tired at work today. Was up too late on a booty call.

  More words meaning: a party, event, gathering, meeting
  More words meaning: sex or not-quite-sex (ambiguous terms)

  by Scott A., New York, NY, USA, Jul 19 2002  (Edit definition)

noun

• an attractive female.

  More words meaning: attractive female

  by C. Mathey, FL, USA, Jun 21 1997  (Edit definition)

• an older model Chevy vehicle.

  More words meaning: car, motorcycle, or other vehicle

  by Anonymous, Apr 24 2003  (Edit definition)

• A computer. Often identified by its operating system, e.g. "Unix box" or "Windows box."

  We preprocess the data on Unix boxes before handing it up to the mainframe.

  More words meaning: computer slang

  by Morgan D., Seattle, WA, USA, Aug 30 2003  (Edit definition)

• a vagina.

  More words meaning: vulva ('vagina'), female genitalia

  by Anonymous, Sep 28 2008  (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)

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)

intransitive verb

• being mildly intoxicated, usually from alcohol.

  I was buzzing pretty good.

  More words meaning: under the influence of alcohol, drunk

  by John J., Houston, TX 77036, USA, Apr 15 2005  (Edit definition)

• to leave.

  More words meaning: to go, leave, exit

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

noun

• the light-headed ("buzzed") feeling from smoking a cigarette.

  I must have not smoked in a while - this cigarette is totally giving me a buzz.

  More words meaning: to smoke a cigarette

  by Jackie R., Glen Gardner, NJ, USA, Feb 19 1999  (Edit definition)

• a state of mild to moderate intoxication from drugs or alcohol. See also buzzed.

  He drinks 'til he pukes; I just want to catch a buzz.

  I've got a pretty good buzz going on right now.

  The marijuana only gave him a buzz.

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

  by Jessie G., Lewisville, TX, USA, Dec 27 1999  (Edit definition)

• the most current information.

  What's the buzz?

  More words meaning: information, gossip, speech, talk

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

• the current gossip.

  What's the buzz?

  More words meaning: information, gossip, speech, talk

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

transitive verb

• to call on a telephone.

  Give me a buzz when you reach home.

  I'm going to buzz them later.

  More words meaning: telephone, phone
  More words meaning: to contact, call, mail

  by Saima, Madhouse Rd, VIC 3723, Australia, Apr 07 1998  (Edit definition)

noun

• a movie primarily of interest to females, often due to content love, friendship, emotional scenes) or cast (primarily females). Examples include Steel Magnolias, The Truth about Cats and Dogs, etc. The term is used frequently by males when talking about such films. See also Dick Flick

  My girlfriend couldn't go out tonight because she's watching chick flicks with her friends.

  More words meaning: movie, film, video

  by Anonymous, Oct 01 2001  (Edit definition)

noun

• The product of an unsuccessful attempt at burning a CD or DVD. That is, an unusable CD/DVD suitable only for use as a coaster.

  Damn, I tried to burn that movie but I keep making coasters.

  More words meaning: broken
  More words meaning: computer slang

  by The Jargon File, Sep 28 2009  (Edit definition)

• CDs received in the mail from the likes of AOL.

  More words meaning: computer slang
  More words meaning: unimportant, useless

  by The Jargon File, Sep 28 2009  (Edit definition)

notes

• In the UK, "beermat" is often used in these senses.

  by The Jargon File, Sep 28 2009  (Edit definition)

noun

• a computer that malfunctions frequently. See poo.

  Dude, what's up with the compooter? I need to get on the web.

  More words meaning: broken
  More words meaning: computer slang

  by Lamar Haslam, Buffalo, NY, USA, Jun 07 2007  (Edit definition)