bif, biff

bif, biff
n
British
1.
a cigarette. A vogue term among adolescents from the later 1990s, the derivation is given at bifta.
► Chas's just caned my biffs.
2.
an Internet user deemed to be embarrassing or unfortunate, in the patois of cyberpunks and net-heads. This categorisation is defined in Surfing on the Internet, by J. C. Hertz (1994), as 'the archetypal ultimate loser-cum-cyberpunk-wannabee stuck in the fantasy world of low-end equipment, limited soft-ware and all-caps mode'.
3.
the vagina

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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  • biff — ☆ biff [bif ] n. [prob. echoic] [Old Slang] a blow; strike; hit vt. [Old Slang] to strike; hit …   English World dictionary

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