baby adj.
small.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Sept. 9/2: Their dresses are short, loose, white-embroidered ‘baby’ frocks reaching to the knee, and the famous red-stockings complete the costume. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Artie (1963) 10: I’ll try it, an’ if it do n’t go, it’s a baby risk. |
In compounds
(US black) the Mercedes Benz model 190E, which is small and sporty.
| (con. 1982–6) Cocaine Kids (1990) 87: She asked me whose baby Benz that was. | |
 | mbz.org 🌐 This list focuses on the ‘Baby Benz’ – the 190 (w201) series sedans produced from 1983–1993 – encompassing the 190, 190E (1.8, 2.0, 2.3, 2.6), 190D (2.0, 2.2, 2.5, & 2.5T), and 16valve (2.3–16, 2.5–16, Evo I, Evo II) variants. |
(drugs) marijuana.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Daily Tel. (London) 30 Jan. n.p.: May I interest you in some Aunt Mary? Or perhaps a little baby bhang? No, I can see, you prefer El Diablito. Or bambalacha? Juju? Laughing weed? [...] or, let’s be perfectly clear, marijuana? |
a heterosexual man or woman who is experimenting with bisexuality.
| www.rainbownetwork.com 27 June 🌐 ‘Yestergay’ and ‘Hasbian’ are the latest monikers following on from the queer trail of ‘Strays’ (straight men with gay sensibilities) and ‘Baby Bios’ (straight guys and gals experimenting with a little homo action). |
(US gay) a young, boyish lesbian.
| (ref. to 1960s) Queens’ Vernacular 24: baby butch (kwn NYC, les sl, mid–late ’60s) boyish, adolescent lesbian. | |
| Macho Sluts 30: I should have struck up an acquaintance with that baby butch who harassed me about my walk. | |
| Rebecca’s Dict. of Queer Sl. 🌐 baby butch — 1) a young butch 2) a lesbian of any age who acts or looks like a young butch. | |
| Time Out N.Y. (11th edn) 288–9: Let our gay glossary help you keep everyone...straight. BABY BUTCHES... |
the junior member of a hooligan gang.
| www.breakr-ring.de 🌐 Wild Baby Crew exists for already 2 years. We all started dancing at about the same time, someone earlier, someone later. [...] How we’ve got an idea of the crew? hmm.. It was announced that a b-boy jam is going to be held. We just wanted to take part as b-girls. And we did it. |
see separate entry.
(US black) a short version of the braided hair worn by Rastafarians.
| Big Issue 21–27 Apr. n.p.: He is a whirlwind of windmilling arms, with baby dreads like demented antennae sticking out from his narrow face as he breakfasts with a crew of relatives and friends. | |
| sirdrew.com 29 Jan. 🌐 Hair.... there was bald, low-cut, Erykah-Badu wrap style, tuques, Demolition-Man blonde, cornrows, baby dreads, medium dreads, afros, braids, down-to-the-floor dreads (I swear it was Jah), and one guy had Japanese cartoon hair (you know, straightened and sticking up at a 45 degree angle like Goku). That was all on guys BTW, in comparison the women’s imaginations were looking pretty limited. |
(US gay) a young, inexperienced lesbian.
| After Hours 55: He used to have a gang of baby-dykes. | |
| Gay Sl. Dict. 🌐. | |
| Queer Sl. in the Gay 90s 🌐 Baby Dyke – A young or inexperienced lesbian, particularly of high school or college age. |
(N.Z. prison) a prisoner’s child .
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 10/2: baby G n. one’s child. |
(US black/teen) a gang member who has yet to commit a murder.
| Sl. Gloss. 🌐 baby gangster: a gangbanger who didn’t kill a person yet. |
(US Und.) $500.
| Prison Community (1940) 330/1: baby grand, n. A five hundred dollar bill. |
see separate entry.
(US prison/und.) the California Youth Authority Facility at Soledad.
| Suicide Hill 11: The judge [...] hit him with five years in the California Youth Authority Facility at Soledad—the ‘Baby Joint’ and ‘Gladiator School.’. |
(US prison) the maximum sentence that prisoners must serve (six years, four months) before a parole board is bound to consider their case for the first time.
| Too Much Time 32: Now l’m sitting here, with really what you call a baby life sentence. |
a prostitute under the age of legal consent.
| On the Stroll 112: Young pussy ought to draw the best; that was why he risked the dangers of baby-pro. |
In phrases
(UK gambling) for a cheat to encourage a victim by betting and deliberately losing.
| Doings in London 40: The landlord and other men who are privy to the robbery, and ‘pitch the baby card’ (encourage the loser by sham betting) always come in for the ‘regulars’ (their share of the plunder). [Ibid.] The macer ‘pitched the baby card,’ and of course lost. |