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World War One Words Starting With the Letter B

Back of the line
Anywhere to the rear and out of the danger zone.


Barbed wire
Ordinary barbed wire used for entanglements. A thicker and heavier military wire is sometimes used.


Barrage
Shells dropped simultaneously and in a row so as to form a curtain of fire. Literal translation "a barrier."


Bashed
- Smashed.


Big boys
- Big guns or the shells they send over.


Big push
- The battles of the Somme.


Billets
The quarters of the soldier when back of the line. Any place from a pigpen to a palace.


Bleeder or Blighter
Cockney slang for fellow. Roughly corresponding to American "guy."


Blighty
England. East Indian derivation. The paradise looked forward to by all good soldiers,--and all bad ones too.


Blighty one
- A wound that will take the soldier to Blighty.


Bloody
The universal Cockney adjective. It is vaguely supposed to be highly obscene, though just why nobody seems to know.


Blooming
A meaningless and greatly used adjective. Applied to anything and everything.


Bomb
- A hand grenade.


Bully beef
Corned beef, high grade and good of the kind, if you like the kind. It sets hard on the chest.


Batman
Soldier assigned to an officer as a servant.



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