| BACKBITER | • backbiter n. A person who says nasty things about another person behind the second person’s back: that is, out of… • back␣biter n. Alternative form of backbiter. • BACKBITER n. one who engages in malicious gossip. |
| BACKBOARD | • backboard n. (Basketball) The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached. • backboard n. (Tennis) A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it, designed to practice… • backboard n. (Medicine) A spine board. |
| BACKBURNS | • backburns n. Plural of backburn. • back-burns n. Plural of back-burn. • back␣burns n. Plural of back burn. |
| BAKEBOARD | • bakeboard n. (Now rare) A board upon which dough is prepared (kneaded, etc) while making bread. • BAKEBOARD n. (Scots) a board for kneading dough on. |
| BANDBRAKE | • BANDBRAKE n. a brake or clutch in the form of a flexible band. |
| BAREBACKS | • barebacks v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bareback. • BAREBACK v. to have unprotected sex. |
| BARMBRACK | • barmbrack n. An Irish yeasted bread with sultanas and raisins. • barm␣brack n. Alternative form of barmbrack. • BARMBRACK n. (Irish) a currant bun, also BARNBRACK. |
| BARNBRACK | • BARNBRACK n. (Irish) a currant bun, also BARMBRACK. |
| BIRCHBARK | • birchbark n. The bark of the birch tree, especially the white bark of the paper birch, Betula papyrifera. • birchbark n. A piece of this bark, formerly used for writing on. • BIRCHBARK n. the bark of the birch tree. |
| BLACKBIRD | • blackbird n. A common true thrush, Turdus merula, found in woods and gardens over much of Eurasia, and introduced elsewhere. • blackbird n. A variety of New World birds of the family Icteridae (26 species of icterid bird). • blackbird n. (Slang, derogatory, historical, among slavers and pirates) A native of the South Pacific islands. |
| BREAKABLE | • breakable adj. Able to break or be broken. • breakable adj. Fragile. • breakable n. Something that is (easily) breakable. |
| BREAKBACK | • breakback adj. Synonym of backbreaking (“of work, very physically tiring”). • break␣back v. (Tennis, of a receiver) To win a game having lost a service game, or during a tiebreak, to win a point… • BREAKBACK adj. crushing. |
| BREAKBEAT | • breakbeat n. (Music, countable) A form of syncopated rhythm prominent in much African music. • breakbeat n. (Music, uncountable) A genre of electronic dance music based on such syncopated rhythms. • BREAKBEAT n. in house music, a short sample of drum beats taken from old soul or jazz records. |
| BREAKBONE | • breakbone n. (Pathology, uncountable) dengue fever. • breakbone n. (US dialect, countable) A chicken’s wishbone. • breakbone adj. Violent; rough and painful. |
| BRICKBATS | • brickbats n. Plural of brickbat. • brickbats v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of brickbat. • BRICKBAT n. a piece of brick. |
| BROOKABLE | • BROOKABLE adj. that can be brooked, tolerated. |
| BRUSHBACK | • brushback n. (Baseball) Synonym of brushback pitch. • BRUSHBACK n. a fastball intentionally thrown near the batter's head or body. |
| BUCKBOARD | • buckboard n. A simple, distinctively American four-wheeled horse-drawn wagon designed for personal transport as well… • BUCKBOARD n. a light horse-drawn vehicle consisting of a flexible board on four wheels, with a two-person seat. |
| REBUKABLE | • rebukable adj. Deserving a rebuke; shameful. • REBUKABLE adj. worthy of rebuke. |