MOP Dictionary

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bagel man \bay' gel man'\
n. ('01) A sessile, edible, humanoid life form.

banana \be nan' e\
n. 1. ('00) A brittle, green-brown object; air freshener; locus of spontaneous generation. 2. ('00) A fruit that may be Jensened if held correctly. 3. ('01) A gold medal. 4. ('01) A device for enumerating certain functions defined on sets of lattice points.

base case \bays' kays'\
n. ('02) Object that are all belong to us.

basically \bay' sih ke lee, bay' sih klee\
interj. ('01) Signals the beginning of a proof.

bishop \bihz' hahp\
n. ('00) A piece in the game of Bughouse that moves diagonally.

Bjorn's Theorem \byohrnz' theer' em\
n. ('01) The projective dual of the inverse of the Mostly-Thick Circle Theorem.

Blazin™ \AAAAHHH!!!' wah' ter!!!\
adj. ('00) A deadly wing flavor.

Blidge \blihj\
n. 1. ('03) What Yan says to make fun of people playing a perfectly reasonable card game in Japan. 2. ('03) The name for a 5-person Bridge game invented to make Yan shut up.

bonk \bonk\
interj. ('01) Yeah.

booga booga \boog' uh boog' uh\
n. ('00) Mao rule. Congruence modulo 5.

bostard \bos' terd\
n. 1. ('02) Taktin's name for Josh Lim, esp. in Diplomacy. 2. ('02) Josh Lim's name for Taktin, esp. in Diplomacy.

bottle \baht' el\
n. ('01) A finger trap.

Brianchon's Theorem \bree an' chenz theer' em\
n. ('01) Projective dual of Pascal's Theorem.

brick \brik\
punc. ('01) Separates two independent clauses in the game of Associations.

buffalo \buf' e lo\
n. ('01) A large land mammal.
vt. ('01) To intimidate, as in "buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo".

buffalo generating function \buf' e lo jehn' e rait ing funk' shen\
n. The function b(x) = x(x² - 1)²/(x² + x - 1)² = x + 2x² + 3x³ + 6x⁴ + 11x⁵ + 20x⁶ + 36x⁷ + 64x⁸ + 113x⁹ + 198x¹⁰ + ..., which generates the number of possible interpretations of the sentence "buffalo buffalo ... buffalo" of length n.

buh-shi \buh' shi'\
interj. ('01) Same thing as in English.

Bulgarian compass \buhl gair' ee en kuhm' pes\
n. ('01) A compass, one of whose components is Bulgaria.

bunching \bunch' eeng\
n. ('00) The process of massive AM-GM.
syn. ('00) Donkey bunching.

Buniakovski \boo nee uh kahv' skee, boo nuh kow' skee\
n. ('01) The Romanian name for Cauchy.

busy beaver \bihz' ee bee' ver\
n. 1. ('01) An active member of the genus Castor. 2. ('01) A function from N to N that grows ludicrously fast.

button \buht' en\
n. ('01) Push my brick halibut injure.