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A word used in Scotland/ North East England meaning child or baby.
'She's got three bairns now.'
'I'm taking the bairn to school!'
bairn by Yarr Harr June 12, 2007
Urban Dictionary Merch
common scottish slang for a child or baby
"Aye when you were just a wee bairn I used to mind you when your mam went tae the bingo."

"I cannae believe shes pregnant - at 15 she's just a bairn herself"
bairn by anna apple October 12, 2003
small child; solid excretum.

cf dropping the kids at the pool.
Don't go in the loo just yet, I've just dropped a bit of a nasty bairn.
bairn by pik@ June 11, 2006
Bairn is the ultimate overlord of the obesity epidemic. His flag is his sexy stomach with all of it’s extremely hot stretch marks
All women:!Who’s that sexy demon?
All men: That’s bairn, he’s ours.
Bairn by Hailbairnsexyman December 9, 2021

bairnlorn 

Noun: A parent who is grieving due to the loss of a child or pregnancy.
Adjective: Bereft by the loss of a child or pregnancy.
The bairnlorn need the immense pain of a child's death recognized with a word equivalent to 'orphan' or 'widow'.
The miscarriage left her bairnlorn.
When the adoption did not go through as planned, he felt bairnlorn.
bairnlorn by JenPow June 28, 2021

barnacle 

verb

to attach or adhere to something (can be either literal or figurative), like the crustacean of the same name that attaches itself to the hull of a ship
“I walked into one of those high-end stores on Rodeo Drive and I was amazed at how few products were on display. The floorspace was wide open. I guess they need all that open room to house the army of sales associates that stand ready to barnacle their lips to your keister.”
barnacle by goose_on_a_roof August 26, 2022

Mother barn 

An agricultural building very rarely on farms used for various purposes. A mother barn generally refers to a structure that houses mothers, including the pregnant. Much like a prison camp, those mothers that are captured and sent to the mother barn never make it out.
Harmy: I have your mother will have a happy birthday :)
Everyone else: You HAVE?! Release them, or we'll have to break into the mother barn!
Mother barn by PisceanPrince May 30, 2022
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Concrete cowboy 

A guy who thinks he's a country kinda guy, but in reality lives a comfortable city / suburban life.
Eugene: Look at that dude in the cowboy hat!
Todd: He's just a concrete cowboy.
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hey let's get a drink of that?

go ahead
*takes drink* ugh wtf is that?

everclear & bepsi
fucking hobo loko eeessshh
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God Shot 

A chance happening with profound meaning, an unexpected blessing, a "sign".
Dr. Drew on Celebrity Rehab said "All of a sudden what had been just another Hollywood proposal became for him an unexpected blessing, an opportunity for growth. In drug recovery language, that's called a "God shot."
God Shot by Imogen1564 February 25, 2011
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