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( business ) connected with people who do physical work with their hands rather than office work blue-collar workers

— Look at white-collar .

blues / bluz / noun [ plural ]

( music ) a type of slow, sad music with a strong rhythm, developed by African-American musicians in the Southern U.S.

to sing the blues a blues band

bluff / blAf / verb ( bluffs , bluff . ing , bluffed )

to try to make people believe something is true when it is not

She won't really tell Mom and Dad. She's just bluffing.

blunt / blAnt / adjective ( blunt . er , blunt est )

with an edge or point that is not sharp He only had a blunt knife to cut the rope.

—ANTONYM sharp

If you are blunt , you say what you think in a way that is not polite.

► blunt • ly / ' blAntli / adverb "Go away," she said bluntly.

blur / Ь1эг / noun [ count , usually singular ] something that you cannot see clearly or remember well Without my glasses, everything's a blur. The events of the day were just a blur.

blur • ry / ' bbri / adjective ( blurr • i • er , blurr • i • est )

not clear

I can't read the words — they're all blurry.

blurt / bbrt / verb ( blurts , blurt • ing , blurt ed )

blurt something out to say something suddenly or without thinking

The teacher told us to wait, but James just blurted out the answer.

blush / Ыл/ / verb ( blush • es , blush • ing , blushed )

If you blush , your face suddenly becomes red, for example

because you are embarrassed

She blushed when he looked at her.

Blvd.

abbreviation of boulevard

boar / bar / ( also wild boar ) noun [ count ]

a wild pig

board 1 Ф / bord / noun

1 [ count ] a long, thin, flat piece of wood

nailed a board across the broken window. floorboards

[ count ] a flat piece of wood, for example, that you use for a special purpose

There is a list of names on the bulletin board. an ironing board a chessboard Look at blackboard .

[ count ] ( business ) a group of people who have a special job, for example controlling a company

the board of directors

[ noncount ] the meals that are provided when you live at a college or stay at a hotel, etc.

The tuition fees do not include room and board .

on board

on a ship or an airplane

How many passengers are on board?

board 2 / bord / verb ( boards , board • ing , board • ed )

to get on a ship, bus, train, or airplane

We said goodbye and boarded the train.

Flight 193 to Denver is now boarding (= is ready for

passengers to get on ) .

board • ing pass / 'bordig pas / noun [count]

a card that you must show when you get on an airplane or a ship

board • ing school / ' bordig skul / [count]

a school where the students live

boast / boust / verb ( boasts , boast • ing , boast • ed )

to talk in a way that shows you are too proud of something

that you have or something that you can do

He's always boasting about what a good football player he

is.

► boast • ful / ' boustfl / adjective

I know you won, but you don't need to be so boastful about it.

boat © / bout / noun [ count ]

a vehicle for traveling on water a fishing boat We traveled by boat .

—Look at ship .

bob / bab / verb ( bobs , bob • bing , bobbed )

to move quickly up and down

The boats in the harbor were bobbing up and down in the water.

bod . у © / 'badi / noun ( plural bod . ies )

[ count ] the whole physical form of a person or an animal

the human body

[ count ] all of a person or animal except the legs, arms, and head