Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK black teen) many, lots of.

1997		C. Newland Scholar 292: She had bere tom on her.
2003		Dizzee Rascal in Vice Mag. at Hyperdub.com 🌐 I got kicked out of bare schools. [...] Bare people were getting pregnant around me in the manor, getme? Bare girls were getting breeded up. [...] There’s just so many talented people but road gets a hold of them, bare people I know could have made it. [...] One little thing gets out, gets changed, changed, by the time it goes from two people to bare people. [...] Oh yeah I’ve heard bare times that I’ve been shot.
2005		Guardian Society 13 July 🌐 We’d go round the corner, pass something to someone, go back and we’d have bare dough, we’d have bare money in our pocket.
2008		A. Wheatle Dirty South 57: There’s bare shootings in this esate.
2011		J. Cornish Attack the Block [film script] 6: Nice whip. Could be bare valuables in there.
2015		67 ‘Take It There’ 🎵 Tryna count berr bank rolls and the feds on my case so I’m discreet.
2016		Independent 5 Jan. 🌐 Many other [teenage] words belong to MLE—multi-ethnic or multicultural London English— [...] Among the most pervasive are bruv, mate, bare, fam, gwop, or peas (money), and chirpsin’, linkin’, and lipsin’—flirting, dating, and kissing respectively.
2016		Mirror Online 1 Sept. 🌐 F**k cars, innit — we don’t go in cars — We use bikes only. Bare bikes.
2020		G. Krauze Who They Was 7: What’s in the wallet, fam, any p’s? and I’m like nah, just bare cards.