Bike Ninja
A "bike ninja" is a cyclist who wears dark clothing (like a ninja) and who doesn't use reflectors or have lights on a bike. A bike ninja is difficult to see at night and often poses…
Neighborhoods
Bike Salmon
"Bike salmon" are cyclists who "swim upstream" (like salmon) by going the wrong way on a one-way street. "Bike salmon" also refers to riders who go the wrong way on…
BILF (bacon or burger variant of MILF)
BILF is a bacon or burger variation of the sexual slang term MILF. The "BILF" bacon version was put on T-shirts by January 2008. In March 2009, Top Chef judge Padma Lakshmi made a…
Bill Johnson’s Big Apple restaurants
Bill Johnson's Big Apple bar-b-que restaurant opened at 3757 East Van Buren in Phoenix, Arizona in December 1956. The "Big Apple" name supposedly came from 1937's Big Apple…
Bill Johnson’s Big Apple (Arizona restaurants, 1956-2015)
Bill Johnson's Big Apple bar-b-que restaurant opened at 3757 East Van Buren in Phoenix, Arizona in December 1956. The "Big Apple" name supposedly came from 1937's Big Apple…
Billennial (bilingual + millennial)
"Billennial" (bilingual + millennial) was popularized by Univision on July 31, 2014. The term usually refers to a Hispanic bilingual millennial (someone born between the early 1980s and…
Billionaire Beanstalk (luxury skyscraper)
Justin Davidson of New York magazine coined "billionaire beanstalk" (luxury skyscraper) in an architecture review on September 15, 2013: "In theory, developers of these…
Billionaire Capital of the World
The "billionaire(s) capital of the world" is the city where the most billionaires live. This is not always New York City, although New York is usually in the top five. Forbes (an American…
Billionaire Pie (Furr’s cafeterias)
Billionaire Pie is a specialty of Furr's cafeteria. Furr's began in New Mexico, but has many locations in Texas and throughout the Southwest. Furr's also offers a Millionaire Pie.…
Billionaire’s Belt
Michael Gross, author of books about 740 Park Avenue and 15 Central Park West, dubbed the area of midtown Manhattan between 57th and 59th Streets as the "Billionaire's Belt" in…
Billy Goat Date Cake (Billy Goat Cookies)
"Billy Goats" are date cookies or date cakes. Some versions claim that the name comes from a time when a woman put the dish on a window sill to cool -- where it was eaten by the…
BIN (Born In Nacogdoches)
Nacogdoches is a small town; people who were born there take pride in their identity. "BIN" stands for "Born In Nacogdoches," cited in print from at least 1999. The city of…
Binghamton, Johnson City, Endicott: Triple Cities
Several cities have been called "Twin Cities." Columbus (GA), Phenix City (AL) and Girard (AL) were called 'Triple Cities" by at least the 1890s. The western New York cities of…
Binghamton: Bingo (nickname)
The city of Binghamton, New York, is sometimes nicknamed "Bingo." Most likely, the nickname is derived from the "bing" in the name "Binghamton." Binghamton had a…
Binghamton: Carousel Capital of the World (nickname)
Binghamton, in Broome County, New York, is called the "Carousel Capital of the World." George F. Johnson (1857-1948), a shoe manufacturer in the Triple Cities area, donated six carousels…
Binghamton: Parlor City (nickname)
Binghamton, the county seat of Broome County, New York, has had the nickname "Parlor City" since August 13, 1873, when the Scranton (PA) Daily Times called Binghamton the "Parlor…
Binghamton: Spiedie
The "spiedie" is an Endicott-Binghamton specialty, brought to the area by immigrants from Italy. The "spiedi" or "spiedie" (pronounced "speedy") began with…
Binghamton: Valley of Opportunity (nickname)
Many places have advertised themselves as a "Valley of Opportunity." Bitterroot Valley, in southwestern Montana, advertised that it was a "Valley of Opportunity" in 1907.…
Bingo (game)
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikipedia: Bingo (U.S.)Bingo is a game of chance played with different randomly drawn numbers which players match against numbers that have been pre-printed on 5×5…
Biocrat (biology + bureaucrat)
"Biocracy" (biology + -cracy) was coined in 1933 by Dr. William Bradford Cannon (1871-1945) of Harvard Medical School. According to an article in the February 10, 1933 Harvard Crimson,…