boston : Idioms & Phrases

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boston baked beans

  • noun dried navy beans baked slowly with molasses and salt pork
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boston brown bread

  • noun dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water
    brown bread.
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boston bull

  • noun small pug-faced American terrier breed having a smooth brindle or black coat with white markings
    Boston bull.
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boston cream pie

  • noun layer cake filled with custard
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boston fern

  • noun a sword fern with arching or drooping pinnate fronds; a popular houseplant
    Nephrolepis exaltata; Nephrolepis exaltata bostoniensis.
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boston harbor

  • noun the seaport at Boston
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boston ivy

  • noun Asiatic vine with three-lobed leaves and purple berries
    Parthenocissus tricuspidata; Japanese ivy.
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boston lettuce

  • noun lettuce with relatively soft leaves
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boston rocker

  • noun a rocking chair that has a high spindle back and a decorative top panel
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boston tea party

  • noun demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor; organized as a protest against taxes on tea
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boston terrier

  • noun small pug-faced American terrier breed having a smooth brindle or black coat with white markings
    Boston bull.
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