This page gathers the 6,610 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “US” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 9 of 66: from “bulldoze” to “cabin”.
- bulldoze verb To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; used originally of the intimidation of black voters in Louisiana.
- bullet noun The best workout time at a track on a given day at a specific distance, traditionally marked by a printer's bullet.
- bullhead noun The black bullhead, Ameiurus melas.
- bullpen noun A military prison or its enclosing stockade.
- bullpup noun A handgun smaller than a bulldog.
- bully adj Very good.
- bum factory noun An establishment that sells alcoholic drinks, such as a saloon or liquor store.
- bummer noun An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.
- bummy adj Like a bum (homeless person or hobo)
- bump verb To encounter and stop, to catch.
- bump cap noun A baseball cap with an inner protective shell of hard plastic.
- bump off verb To kill, especially to murder.
- bumper sticker noun An adhesive label or decal, usually applied to the bumper or back end of an automobile, and displaying a short political, promotional…
- bun noun A buttock.
- bunch noun A considerable amount.
- bunco noun A swindle or confidence trick.
- bundler noun A political fundraiser.
- bung out verb To protrude or bulge.
- bunk noun A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
- bunker noun The menhaden, any of several species of fish in the genera Brevoortia and Ethmidium.
- bunny hop noun A dance from the big band era, a variation of the conga, in which dancers made small jumps with feet together.
- buns noun The buttocks.
- buppie noun A black urban professional; an African-American professional or executive in their late twenties or early thirties.
- bureau noun A chest of drawers for clothes.
- burg noun A city or town.
- burgess noun A member of the House of Burgesses, a legislative body in colonial America, established by the Virginia Company to provide civil rule in…
- burglary noun Under the Model Penal Code, entering a building or occupied structure with purpose to commit a crime therein, unless the premises are at…
- burlap noun A very strong, coarse cloth, made from jute, flax, or hemp, and used to make sacks, etc.
- burley noun A tobacco grown mainly in Kentucky, used in making cigarettes.
- burly adj Of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both.
- burn verb To desire or ache for (something); to focus on attaining (something).
- burn pit noun An open-air pit where waste is burned. Long-term exposure to its smoke is associated with health problems.
- burnout noun Someone whose brains have figuratively been burned out by drugs.
- burp noun A belch.
- bury the lede verb To begin a story with details of secondary importance to the reader while postponing more essential points or facts.
- bus noun A coach, a bus used for long travels.
- bush league noun A professional sports association at the lower levels of minor league organization.
- bush sunflower noun A shrubby perennial with yellow flowers, Simsia calva, native from New Mexico and Texas to Central and South America.
- bushel verb To mend or repair clothes.
- bushie noun A political supporter or fan of U.S. President Bush (either Bush 43, or Bush 41, or both Presidents George Bush)
- Bushonomics noun The economic policies associated with the presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989–1993.
- Bushophile noun A fan or supporter of George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) or George W. Bush (born 1946), former presidents of the United States.
- Bushophilia noun The love or admiration of George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) or George W. Bush (born 1946), former presidents of the United States.
- bushwah noun Nonsense; euphemistic form of bullshit.
- bushwhacker noun One who travels through the woods, off the designated path.
- businesscrat noun A person whose career includes acting both as a business executive and a government bureaucrat in the Democratic Party in the United States.
- bussed adj Involving desegregation through bussing from the inner city to the suburbs.
- busser noun An assistant waiter; one who busses.
- bust verb To break.
- bust on verb To make a joke concerning; to ridicule or make fun of.
- bust out verb To escape (from); break out.
- bust up verb To physically damage or ruin; to be ruined; to go bankrupt; to end (something).
- busted valise noun A person who has run out of money
- buster noun A broncobuster.
- busy signal noun An audible signal to the calling party that indicates failure to complete the requested connection; an engaged tone.
- busy work noun Work or activity performed with the intention or result of occupying time, and not necessarily to accomplish something productive; routine…
- butcher boy noun Batting at a pitch with a short swing from a bunt position; a slash bunt, a slug bunt.
- butchershop noun A store that sells meat.
- butt noun The buttocks or anus (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
- butt bag noun A fanny pack.
- butt call noun An unintentional telephone call made from a cell phone in a back pant pocket due to body movement or sitting down.
- butt dial noun A situation when one's cellphone makes a call from one's back pocket where its buttons are being inadvertently pressed.
- butt dialing noun The action of making a call from a cellphone in one's back pocket where its buttons are being inadvertently pressed
- butt job noun A plastic surgical procedure to alter the appearance of the buttocks, especially for cosmetic reasons; the resulting physical appearance of…
- butt monkey noun An annoying and irksome person.
- butt out verb To stop interfering; mind one's own business.
- butt pirate noun A gay man.
- butt-fucking noun anal sex
- butt-huggers noun Men's briefs; underwear.
- butt-kicking noun A beating; a decisive or humiliating defeat; a severe reprimand.
- butt-rape noun The act of forcing anal sex upon another person, without their consent and/or against their will.
- buttass adv Synonym of very.
- buttcheck noun The act of putting one's behind down to check a fall, while staying sliding along the snow on the snowboard.
- butted adj Having a butt or backside (of a specified kind).
- butter bar noun An ensign.
- butter-and-egg man noun A prosperous dairy farmer (or other wealthy rural citizen), seen as coming into the big city and ostentatiously living it up.
- butterbox noun The bufflehead duck.
- butterburger noun A hamburger made with butter, whether it is mixed with the meat or applied to the bun before toasting.
- butterhead noun A person of East Asian descent.
- butternut noun Southern settlers of the Ohio river basin, who used dye from the butternut tree to colour their home-made clothing
- buttfuck noun An act of anal intercourse.
- buttful noun Enough to fill a person's buttocks.
- butthole noun The anus.
- buttlicker noun A contemptible person; an ass-kisser.
- button noun A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
- button up verb To seal off (a military vehicle or facility).
- buttonbush noun Common buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
- buttonology noun User interface
- buttonwillow noun A shrub with round flower heads found near water in California, the Eastern US, and Central America, Cephalanthus occidentalis.
- buttplugging noun buggery
- buy out verb To avoid a punishment or escape a difficult situation.
- buy when it snows, sell when it goes phrase Stock market securities can be expected to increase in value to a greater degree in the cold winter months from November through April than…
- buzzard noun Any scavenging bird, such as the American black vulture (Coragyps atratus) or the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura).
- buzzardet noun A hawk resembling the buzzard, but with longer legs, possibly Buteo platypterus.
- buzzer noun A police badge.
- c noun One hundred dollars; a c-note.
- C-ration noun An individual canned, precooked, or prepared wet ration formerly issued to land forces in the US military.
- c4 noun A 501(c)(4), an organization that conforms to the United States Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)4
- cabana noun A shelter on a beach or at a swimming pool.
- cabin noun A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional…