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Bodega (store)
Bodega: a small family-run neighborhood convenience store, strongly associated with New York City, named from Spanish for wine cellar; Puerto Rican origins in the 1950s, later Dominican and Yemeni owners, community anchor and higher prices than supermarkets.
Bodice
Bodice: the fitted upper part of a woman's dress or a separate torso garment, from "a pair of bodies" (mid-16th century). Distinct from stays and corsets, which are stiffened undergarments worn beneath it.
Body piercing
Body piercing: insertion of an ornament into a tissue perforation for decorative, cultural, or spiritual reasons. Ancient practice (46,000-year-old Australian nose ornament, Varna gold earrings), revived in 1970s California by Jim Ward; infection is the main risk; professional practice requires sterile needles and implant-grade jewelry.
Bodyarmor SuperDrink
Bodyarmor SuperDrink (BODYARMOR) is an American sports drink founded in 2011 by Mike Repole and Lance Collins, known for coconut water, potassium-heavy electrolytes, and Kobe Bryant's 2013 investment; Coca-Cola bought the remaining 85% for $5.6 billion in 2021.
Bodysuit
A bodysuit is a snug one-piece garment covering the torso and fastening at the crotch with snaps, a top that never comes untucked from skirts or trousers.
Boerewors
Boerewors (farmer's sausage, wors, boerie) is a traditional South African fresh sausage of coarsely ground beef and pork with coriander, legally required to contain at least 90% meat, grilled at braais and on Heritage Day.
Bogolan
Bogolan, more fully bògòlanfini, is a Malian cotton cloth dyed with fermented, iron-rich river mud, traditionally made by the Bamana people and known since the 1980s as a symbol of African style.
Bohemian engraved glass
Bohemian engraved glass is glass made in Bohemia and decorated by cutting or copper-wheel engraving, a craft begun at Rudolf II's court in Prague around 1609.
Bohemian glass
Bohemian glass (Czech: české sklo), also called Bohemian crystal or Czech glass, is the glassmaking tradition of Bohemia in the Czech Republic, known since the 13th century for hard potash-lime crystal suited to cutting and engraving, UNESCO-listed in 2023.
Bohemian style
Bohemian style (boho) is a fashion and interior aesthetic of natural fabrics, loose silhouettes, and layered craft, named for 19th-century French artists and revived by Chloé's 2024 collection.
Boho-chic
Boho-chic, also called bohemian chic, is a fashion style combining flowing silhouettes, vintage and folk-inspired pieces, and layered jewelry, reaching mass appeal in the early-to-mid 2000s.
Boiled egg
Boiled egg: an egg cooked in its shell in hot water, soft-boiled (runny yolk) or hard-boiled (solid yolk). Best simmered at 80–85°C rather than boiled; peeling depends on egg age and pH.
Boilermaker (beer cocktail)
Boilermaker: North American beer-and-shot drink, a whiskey shot served with or dropped into beer; also called Depth Charge. Named for 1930s "Boilermaker and His Helper"; classic build is 1 oz whiskey with 8 oz beer.
Bolo tie
Bolo tie, also bola tie or cowboy tie: a cord necktie with a decorative slide and metal tips, emerging in the 1940s American Southwest, popularized by Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni silversmiths, and the official state neckwear of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.
Bologna sausage
Bologna sausage (also baloney; Hungarian párizsi) is a cooked, emulsion-type sausage in large casings, descended from mortadella of Bologna, Italy; US-regulated like frankfurters, made of beef, pork, or poultry.
Bolognese sauce
Bolognese sauce, or ragù alla bolognese, is Bologna's slow-simmered meat sauce: minced beef and pancetta with soffritto, a little tomato, wine, and milk. Official Accademia recipes date to 1982 and 2023; served with tagliatelle, not spaghetti.
Bolton
Bolton is a town in Greater Manchester, England, that became a major center of fine cotton spinning, and where Samuel Crompton invented the spinning mule in 1779.
Bombay Sapphire
Bombay Sapphire is a Bacardi-owned London dry gin launched in 1987 by IDV, sold in a blue bottle, made by vapour infusion of ten botanicals at Laverstoke Mill, Hampshire; about 4.3 million cases sold in 2025.
Bon Appétit
Bon Appétit is an American food magazine founded in 1956, owned by Condé Nast since 1993, known for its test kitchen recipes, its 2020 workplace controversy, and a print schedule of at least six seasonal issues a year.
Bondage (BDSM)
Bondage, the B in BDSM, is consensual adult restraint or restricted movement for sensory, psychological, or role-based purposes. Covers forms like shibari, safewords, Safe-Sane-Consensual norms, physical risks, history from Krafft-Ebing to Fifty Shades, and clinical guidance.
Bondage positions and methods
Bondage positions and methods are consensual restraint techniques within BDSM, using rope, cuffs, and shibari; defined by negotiation, safe words, and safety limits against nerve injury, positional asphyxia, and strangulation risks.
Bonded leather
Bonded leather, also called reconstituted leather, is a composite of shredded leather scraps bonded with polyurethane or latex onto a backing, typically 10-20% leather fiber, used in budget furniture and book covers, prone to peeling.
Bondo society art
Bondo society art is the masquerade art of the Sande (Bundu) society, an all-female initiation society in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, and the Ivory Coast.
Bonfire
Bonfire: a large controlled outdoor fire for waste disposal, celebration, or signaling, from Middle English banefire (bone-fire). Covers etymology, midsummer and Guy Fawkes traditions, safety regulation, and emissions.
Bonfire Night
Bonfire Night, or Guy Fawkes Night, is the British 5 November celebration with bonfires and fireworks marking the failure of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, once a mandated anti-Catholic thanksgiving, now a largely secular autumn festival.
Bonnet (headgear)
Bonnet (headgear): a hat tied under the chin with ribbons, brim framing the face; dominant women's headwear of the 18th-19th centuries, also a Scottish male cap (glengarry, balmoral).
Bonwit Teller
Bonwit Teller, a luxury New York women's department store founded by Paul Bonwit and Edmund Teller in the 1890s, famed for its Art Deco Fifth Avenue flagship demolished in 1980 for Trump Tower, and defunct as a chain after 1990.
Boohoo
Boohoo is a British online fast-fashion retailer founded in Manchester in 2006, which grew through acquisitions including PrettyLittleThing and Debenhams and faced a 2020 Leicester factory pay scandal.
Boot worship
Boot worship (靴崇拜) is a consensual BDSM practice of ritualized reverence for boots, typically a dominant partner's, through kissing, licking, polishing or bootblacking, rooted in gay leather culture and distinct from footwear fetish or trampling.
Bora Ring
A bora ring is an Aboriginal Australian ceremonial site of one or two circular earth rings in southeastern Australia where initiation ceremonies called bora were held.