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Meaning of bine | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/baɪn/

Definitions

  1. A climbing plant, as hops, which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support (distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers).
  2. A cigarette.
    UK, slang
  3. Bullets.
    Multicultural-London-English, slang

Equivalents

Nederlands slingerplant

Examples

“The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires.”
“You hear this We been sitting on bine So I beg you Step outta line We gon’ spray this up like a water slide”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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