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Another way to say “body”

41 slang terms grouped by this meaning, ranked by popularity.

  1. A tune that keeps replaying in one's head or that one keeps thinking about, especially if unwanted.

  2. The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly.

  3. At or to the back or far side of.

  4. (slang, AAVE) An older male gangsta or thug, especially one who is no longer active; an older black man with street cred.

  5. (slang) A jazz music enthusiast.

  6. (slang, automotive) Describes a 4x4 automobile that has a "lift kit", raising the body and/or frame higher than stock.

  7. (AAVE, intransitive) To have a beef or grudge against somebody.

  8. (Polari, back slang) A person's hair.

  9. (India, obsolete) A more extreme form of dharna, in which the complainant harms or kills himself or some member of his family as a form of vengeance.

  10. (South Africa) Any of several species in subfamily with body forms like those of grasshoppers, katydids, and crickets, particularly.

  11. (Canada) A simple couch, having no back or arms, that can be converted into a double bed.

  12. (anatomy) The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted.

  13. (US, nonstandard, or, dialect) An orchestra.

  14. (US, automotive) A variation on the hatchback car body style, with a more gently sloping roofline.

  15. (countable) A garment knitted from wool, worn over the upper body.

  16. (transitive, chiefly, US) To befit, be appropriate or necessary to somebody. .

  17. (US, obsolete) A Confederate Southerner, or somebody who supported southern rights and slavery.

  18. (rail, US) A diesel or electric locomotive with a full-width body for its entire length.

  19. (Scotland, archaic) A man.

  20. (basketball) A practice drill where a line of players improve their rebounding skills by catching a rebound in the air, tossing the ball back against the backboard before landing, and returning to the end of the line to go again.

  21. (countable, originally, _, AAVE, informal) A witty or sarcastic retort.

  22. (Australia, slang) A surfer .

  23. (Australia) A body corporate.

  24. (figurative, Australia, New Zealand) To withdraw; to discontinue what one is doing or saying; to back off.

  25. (Australian, New Zealand, UK, legal) A body set up by law which is authorised to enforce legislation on behalf of the relevant country or state.

  26. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.

  27. (UK, dated) A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.

  28. (grammar, linguistics) An act or instance of referring back to the subject of a sentence, or of having an object equal to the subject.

  29. (UK, Australia, informal) A rejection; a refusal.

  30. (UK, historical) In Portland, Dorset, England, an outsider; somebody living on the island that wasn't born on the island.

  31. (UK, dialect) The rotten body of a tree.

  32. (dance) A Jamaican dance move that involves raising and lowering the arms while moving the body in a waving motion.

  33. (British) A form of daylight-saving time, one hour ahead of UTC, used in the United Kingdom. Abbreviation: BST.

  34. (UK, colloquial, rare) A chestnut .

  35. (mining) The head of a jib .

  36. (exercise, slang) The hamstring muscles; the biceps femoris.

  37. (of, clothing) Tailored to the shape of a person's body.

  38. (soccer, slang) City of Manchester Stadium (known as Etihad Stadium for sponsorship reasons), the home ground of Manchester City F.C.

  39. (nautical) The underside of a deck (equivalent to a ceiling).

  40. (bodybuilding, slang) The deltoid muscles.

  41. (transitive, slang) To disgust (somebody).