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Babash - see Mountain dew

Bacchanal - Large noisy happening, scandal, big party, confusion

Bachac - The leaf cutter ant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leafcutter_ant

Back - Usage:

Back Squeeze - To hold back, e.g. “Ah back squeeze ah lil’change.” (I save some money)

Back back - To reverse. E.g. “Doh back back on me”

Back chat - Insolent response- usually from a subordinate to a superior or child to an elder

Back, Belly and Side- To get it from all sides, usually criticism of some kind

Backside - Posterior, your rear end, buttocks. {also boom boom, background, boomsie, behind

Bad - Usage:

Bad Drive - Reckless driving

Bad eye (or cut eye ) - To look at somebody with slitted eyes

Bad-John - A worthless character- always ready to fight; a bully.

Bad lucky - Unlucky

Bad mine - Bad mind, evil thoughts

Bakra Johnnie - Fair skinned African with blond hair

Bambam, Bamsee - Posterior, your rear end- your derriere, buttocks.

Bam Bam Head - Somebody who has no common sense

Bamboozle - To con someone

Bamsee Lambe - A rather attractive posterior

Bath suit - Swim suit

Bazodee - Totally confused, drunk, light headed, half silly, e.g. “De blow make he bazodee” - The blow knocked him semi conscious

Bawl – Usage: To Bawl Dong De Place - To cry excessively; to be in a state of grief.

Beh beh - Stupid

Behin' - behind

Usage:

Behin’ God Back - A very distance place. Such as the remotest part of the country.

Behin' Yuh Back- In your absence.

Bekaneg - An albino

Better Yuhself - (Better yourself) - To improve your financial and social condition.

Baigan - Eggplant or melongene

Big Gooms /Goomps - A large sized marble approx' 3-4 cm

Bite up - To be in a quarrelsome mood, e.g: “How yuh bite up so today?”

Blank - To ignore somebody, e.g: “How yuh blankin' meh so?”

Blight - A person who brings bad luck.

Blighted - Being bad lucky

Blofo - A very fat person, e.g.: “Dat gyul eh fat, she blofo!

Blues - A Trinidad and Tobago $100 dollar note; also pornography.

Blood Eh Take - To instinctively dislike, or distrust someone.

Bloomin' France - An expression of anger, substitution for foul language.

Bobolee - A person who is being taken advantage of

Boboloops - Grossly overweight, obese, or fat person.

Bodi - Long bean that grows on a vine

Bokee - The act of hitting someone's knuckles hard by pitching a marble.

Bois Bande - Bark of a tree of same name, used to make a tea brew which is alleged to have aphrodisiac powers

Bol' face - (Bold face) A pushy person, unreasonably demanding.

Boo Boo Man - A bogey man, A scary person e.g De boo boo man go come fuh yuh if you eh behave

Boof up - To insult somebody

Bounce - Usage: Bounce meh nah- Usually said when walking in front of a car in the road ( jaywalking and daring the driver).

Bowgee - (East Indian derivative) Sister-in-law

Bragadang - A sound...like a breadfruit falling on a galvanized roof.

Bram - Sound of something falling or something or someone getting hit; also, a rowdy fete, act of pressing clothes quickly

Break away - Dance wildly to a calypso tune

Bright - Intelligent, knowledgeable, smart

Brokes - Have no money, e.g. “Ah totally brokes today.”

Brokofoot - A person walking with a limp or physically challenged person.

Broughtupsy - Upbringing, conduct, character

Brush - To have sexual intercourse

Brudder - Brother

Buh wait nah - Wait a minute, now hold it right there

Bush Bath - A mixture of the extract of certain bushes which is added to the bath water in order to stop a period of bad luck or to reverse a sickness

Buss - Usage:

De business gone buss - To go broke

He buss he brains studyin' las' night - To study hard

Buss yuh tail - To fall down, or to get a beating.

Buss d' mark - Refers to when the "mark"(the number/symbol) is revealed in the local gambling game called “whe whe” (now commercialized and called Play Whe)

Buss-Up-Shut - Synonymous for Paratha Roti because of the way the roti looks ripped up when done.


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