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A dense, poorly-leavened bread that travels well, making it a great, tasteless vehicle for calories. It is often used by tradidtional campers who canoe and portage for weeks at a time, as it doesn't fall apart when wet, and can be cooked in the heat of a dying fire for lunch the next day. That allows the campers to unwind instead of cooking, but adds to the density of the food.

Must be an old word for cake, because "bannock-hives" are 'swellings' from eating too many bannocks (i.e., fat rolls).
"Why is this bannock so hard?"
"Sorry, there wasn't any baking soda."
bannock by PTSS December 28, 2005
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bannock slap 

A backhanded slap, usually across the face, with a long, wide arc. North American Indian origin (Cree).

Bannock is a rough leavened bread of Scottish origin which became commonplace among N. American Indian Tribes.
Mary saw the woman who snagged her man at last month's powwow, so she walked up to her and gave her a vicious bannock slap.
bannock slap by piscescree February 11, 2009

bannock bum 

A Canadian girl, normally of Aboriginal or First Nations decent, who posses a flat, unappealing buttox.
Look at that native chick, she totally has a bannock bum.
bannock bum by twenty- November 23, 2013

bannock bitch 

Someone who makes bannock for other people thus becoming their bitch. See bannock.
My sister Jodie is a total bannock bitch.

Bannock-Slap 

A way female elders of the native American Persuasion punish the ones they are responsible for punishing, For using frybread (fried bannock or baked bannock to strike the baloney out of the mouth of them youngsters.
His granny said hes get a bannock-slap if he kept beating on hid siblings.

Bannock Bum 

A flat-assed women who is overly confident and full of herself. Tends to think she is one of us and enjoys ripping apart families and taking kids away from their homes.
The Bailee women is a real bannock bummed bitch. Watch your kids around her, she prides herself on ruining people's life in the name of helping others.

White Bannock 

A full status North American Indian who looks completely white.
Hey White Bannock, did you go to bingo last night?
White Bannock by TODD MAN December 9, 2012