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  • bouflacker
    /búflaka/ [etym?] n. a fish, Gerres cinereus, a large shad. (Cat)
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  • bouf, boof (2)
    /buf/ n. [cf. BOUF intj.; cf. DAS biff an unsuccessfully played note on a brass instru-ment (Negro); also US dial.
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  • bouf, boof
    /buf/ intj. 1. [W Car.; cf. Scots bouff to strike with the hand so as to cause a hollow sound
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  • bottom-drying
    phr. drying out a boat's hull: 1977 Most of the dinghies were hauled out . . . to get a
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  • Bottom: the Bottom
    [cf. US dial. South, Mid bottom low-lying, swampy land; a community in such an area, often poor DARE; US Black
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  • bottle spider
    [from the shape of the red spot under the abdomen] n. the poisonous black widow spider, Latrodectus mactans: 1978 (Campbell
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  • bottle-lamp
    (Eleu., Mayag.); bottle-light (Andros) n. a beer or soda bottle filled with kerosene, with a rag forming a wick: They's
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  • bottle dancing
    [cf. BOTTLE broken glass] n. dancing over broken glass with bare feet (originally associated with obeah, now a nightclub act
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  • bottle cover
    n. bottle cap: No use to put the bottle cover back—the coke gon spoil (Nassau). (Black)
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  • bottle-and-nail
    n. a musical instrument: 1978 A bottle with a corrugated surface scraped by a metal stick. Generally the metal stick
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