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Out the back of Bourke

Australian expression which means any place which is remote or inconvinient. Based on an actual place west NSW which is an extremely hot country town known for cotton farming and dust storms.
Where the hell is that place?

It's out the back of Bourke...
by sylvy September 24, 2006
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bourgeois bulldozer

Posh, air-polluting SUVs that are about as likely to go-off road as fly to Spain. Generally driven by overpaid soccer mothers.
The guy in that bourgeois bulldozer is obviously compensating for something.
by through_kashmir May 17, 2005
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bourgeois

Adj. When pronounced "BOO-zhee" (soft-j sound like in French) refers to a quality of (sometimes mildly) snobby-without-realizing-it, upper-middle-class sensibilities. Usually associated with upper-middle-income white people, but not necessarily. Can involve driving the right car, getting the right (healthy or gourmet) foods, having a professional/white-collar job, always having "nice" things, $4 lattes at Starbucks or elsewhere because you think you're above Starbucks, having a well-diversified stock portfolio and other retirement savings, having a special set of dishes and everything else just for Christmas, status-symbol kids or pets, carbon offsets, thinking $15 wine is cheap, listening to NPR, and gentrifying neighborhoods. Even though not all of these things may be bad and some of them could be done by anybody (like healthy food or looking down on Starbucks), it's a certain combination and a certain attitude that goes along with it that you know when you see. As with many type-of-people-describing things, there can be some overlap with other things, yuppy stuff and hipster stuff especially (although hipsters tend to be associated with 20-somethings, and yuppies tend to be younger-middle-age; bourgeois has more of an association with younger-middle-age-thru-older-middle-age); can be distinguished from super-rich stuff; some people might do bourgeois things occasionally or do things in a bourgeois way, but some people are just bourgeois and usually don't realize it.
This neighborhood used to be a lively working-class Latino neighborhood, but then all these yuppies moved in cause it was close to downtown and was actually a pretty cool neighborhood, and now there's all these bourgeois shops and cafes everywhere and everyone's property values went up.

He likes to pretend he's all poor and disadvantaged and shops at Wal-Mart and stuff, but we all know he came from this total bourgeois background and his bourgeois parents support him still.

When I became a teacher, I wanted to teach at the high school I graduated from, but I ended up at this preppy magnet school in a bourgeois-ass suburb.
by PublicSexWithGarlic December 4, 2010
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James Bourne

Talented British songwriter, formally of Busted fame,and who has thus far failed to recreate his early success with his new venture the boyband Son of Dork.

He is not regarded by many of the groups' fans' to be the 'hottest' member of either band, accolades which are often given to Charlie Simpson of Busted and David Williams of Son of Dork, but he is often credited as being the creative force behind both ventures, which is, or should be the real crux of his fame.

His bands' music is often followed by young teenagers who often think they are being "rock" or "punk" because they listen to it, which couldn't be further from the truth. Neither band were punk or rock, they are pop just thankfully a very different version from Britney Spears
James Bourne was a member of the successful UK band Busted
by laurenmargaret December 10, 2008
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jason bourne

A man who lost his memory, then regained it, and then kicked alot of ass in the meantime, whilst being hampered by some random german lady, who honestly did less plotwise than yuna did in final fantasy X.
Btw, this is a fictional person in a movie called "the bourne identity"
Man: We need to eliminate Jason Bourne, as in , yesterday.
Assassin: Right, Im on it *blam*
Man: helloooo? assassin? ......
by John Marwin September 24, 2004
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James Bourne

Talented singer/songwriter, formally of Busted fame,and who has thus far failed to recreate his early success with his new ventureSon of Dork.

He is not regarded by many to be the hottest member of either band, accolades which are often given to Charlie Simpson of Busted and David Williams of Son of Dork, but is often credited as being the creative force behind both ventures, which is, or should be the real crux of his fame.

His bands' music is often followed by young teenagers who often think they are being "rock" or "punk" because they listen to it, which couldn't be further from the truth. Neither band were punk or rock, they are Pop just thankfully a very different version from Britney Spears
Girl: James Bourne is sooooooooooo gorgeous I'm just gonna like die!!!!
Me: Calm down love, stop freaking out and actually listen to the music, for God sake
by laurenmargaret December 10, 2008
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Raleigh bourge

When someone plops down in your lap in a flirtatious way.

Bourge is pronounce like the french word bourgeois.
She tried the raleigh bourge and he's still oblivious to her flirting.
by novelandtea June 18, 2011
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