This Concise version of the New Partridge contains every entry in New Partridge as well as several hundred new words that have come into the slang lexicon since 2005. The Concise is presented without the hundreds of thousands of citations in the New Partridge, creating an affordable alternative to our update of Partridge. Lastly, we improved dating infor¬mation given on hundreds of headwords. | 31 bamsie man bang bamsie man noun a male homosexual trinidad and tobago 1996 ban noun a banana. Greengrocer s familiar abbreviation usually in the plural uk 1984 banana noun 1 an Asian-American who rejects his Asian heritage and seeks to blend into the dominant white culture. Like a banana the person described is yellow on the outside white on the inside us 1970. 2 a Hong Kong Chinese of European or American parentage or aspirations hong kong 1997. 3 a New Zealand-born Chinese person new Zealand 1998. 4 a person of mixed race with both black and white ancestors us 1945. 5 a hospital patient suffering from jaundice us 1983. 6 in American casinos a 20 chip. From the yellow colour us 1995. 7 the penis us 1916. 8 a parenthesis sign or on a computer keyboard us 1991. 9 the convex curvature of the bottom of a surfboard us uses. 10 a comic in a burlesque show us 1953. 11 a crazy or foolish person us 1919. 12 a dollar us 1970. 13 an Australian 1 note Australia 1953. off your banana mentally unstable crazy uk 1999 banana verb in television and film making to walk in a slight curve in front of the camera to preserve focus us 1990 banana-balancer noun an officer s steward or cabin-hand Australia 1960 banana belt nickname 1 southeastern Alaska us 1937. 2 the South Orkney Islands and South Georgia warm only in comparison with the harsh cold of Antarctica. The term has been applied to a relatively less cold area in a cold region since 1898 Antarctica 1958 bananabender noun a person from Queensland. The Australian state of Queensland has a large banana industry Australia 1964 banana boy noun a young white man brought up in the AngloSaxon tradition of Natal later KwaZulu-Natal hence a sportsman who is resident in KwaZulu-Natal south Africa 1956 banana clip noun the curved magazine or clip for a US Army carbine us 1968 banana farm noun an asylum for the insane. Used among Britons in tropical or semi-tropical countries uk 1976 banana hammock noun a brief male bikinius 1997 banana .
