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Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Babylon [List of slang terms for police officers]

Jamaican English term for corrupt establishment systems, often applied to the police.

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Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Backing [Glossary of rhetorical terms]

Supporting an argument's merit.

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Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Bacon [List of slang terms for police officers]

Derived from Pigs: often used in the structure "I smell bacon" to warn of the approaching presence of an officer.

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Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Bahut [Architectural glossary]

Dwarf-wall of plain masonry, carrying the roof of a cathedral or church and masked or hidden behind the balustrade.

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Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Baluster [Architectural glossary]

Small moulded shaft, square or circular, in stone or wood, sometimes metal, supporting the coping of a parapet or the handrail of a staircase.

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Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Balustrade [Architectural glossary]

A series of balusters supporting a handrail or coping.

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Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Barbarism [Glossary of rhetorical terms]

Mispronunciation or unnatural word-usage.

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Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Basement [Architectural glossary]

The lowest, subordinate storey of building often either entirely or paritially below ground level; the lowest part of classical elevation, below the piano nobile.

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Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Bases [Glossary of rhetorical terms]

The issues at question in a judicial case.

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Print in friendly format Send this term to a friend Basilica [Architectural glossary]

Originally a Roman, large roofed hall erected for transacting business and disposing of legal matters.; later the term came to describe an aisled building with a clerestory. Medieval cathedral plans were a development of the basilica plan type.

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