What is the meaning of BO. Phrases containing BO
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Slang for the BRONX. BOOGIE DOWN BRONX.
front of the ship or boat.
an enlisted rating, running from boatswain's striker (E-2) thru Master Chief and then into Warrant Officers. A Navy and Coast Guard rating for deck crew.
Someone with offesnive body odour.
Tounge-in-cheek acronym for "Boring Exercise".
refugees fleeing Vietnam by boat after 1975. Pg. 505
Body Off Baywatch, Face Off Crimewatch
Benefit of the Doubt -or- Board Of Directors
usually the "deck apes" and small box coxswains. The Aviation Boatswain's Mates were usually the guys who took care of towing the birds around the ramp area or flight decks and who made sure they were secured to the 'ground' when the weather went to pot.
Fixed signal regulating railroad traffic, usually referred to as slow board., order board., clear board (for clear tracks) or red board (stop). Do not confuse this with extra board or spare board, colloquially known as slow board or starvation list, usually containing names of qualified train or enginemen not in regular active service who are called to work in emergencies. These names are listed in order of seniority, the man hired most recently being the last one called to service
Slang for the BRONX. BOOGIE DOWN BRONX.
Drifter who went from one railroad job to another, staying but a short time on each job or each road. This term dates back to pioneer days when men followed boom camps. The opposite is home guard. Boomers should not be confused with tramps, although they occasionally became tramps. Boomers were railroad workers often in big demand because of their wide experience, sometimes blackballed because their tenure of stay was uncertain. Their common practice was to follow the "rushes"-that is, to apply for seasonal jobs when and where they were most needed, when the movement of strawberry crops, watermelons, grain, etc., was making the railroads temporarily short-handed. There are virtually no boomers in North America today. When men are needed for seasonal jobs they are called from the extra board
Hand-fired coal-burning locomotive. (A fireman throwing in the lumps of coal goes through motions that resemble bowling)
Term used to describe a wild punch that was invented by famous boxer Kid Chocolate and used by Sugar Ray Leonard. (exam. "if me and that kid fight I'm throwin bolos")
plastic bags used for retrieval of bodies on the battlefield. Pg. 505
Term used to describe a wild punch that was invented by famous boxer Kid Chocolate and used by Sugar Ray Leonard. (exam. "if me and that kid fight I'm throwin bolos")
Boiler explosion
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Of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title; as, a true-born Englishman.
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A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; -- so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist.
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Borne on shards or scaly wing cases.
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See Sound boarding, under Sound, a noise.
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High boots, having generally a band of some kind of light-colored leather around the upper part of the leg; riding boots.
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Born at sea.
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Born of the sea; produced by the sea.
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Born of a noble or respect able family; not of mean birth.
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A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle the match.
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Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel.
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A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice.
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To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc.
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A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for notes.
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A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.
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Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea.
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