bare
adjective, adverbInformalLondon
A British English slang term. Browse all British slang.
What it means
A lot of; loads of. Counter-intuitively, it means the opposite of standard 'bare'.
Very, as an intensifier: it's bare cold.
In use
There were bare people outside the station.
It's bare long, that journey.
Where it comes from
Multicultural London English. The inversion of the standard meaning is the reason it reliably confuses older speakers, and part of why it caught on.
Other forms
- Similar terms:
- loads of