babes

babes

An affectionate nickname, as for one's significant other. Hey, babes! How was your day? Babes, can you pass the bread?
See also: babe
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

babes

verb
See babe
See also: babe
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • honeybunch
  • honeycakes
  • babycakes
  • run (one's) hand through (one's) hair
  • run fingers through hair
  • run (one's) fingers through (one's) hair
  • old cobber
  • have swallowed a dictionary
  • ain’t 1
  • at someone's
References in periodicals archive
For their current tour the Babes have forsaken the concert hall and festival arena for the more intimate confines of clubs and the odd cathedral.
Babes put the spice into springtime cool
Katrina Goulbourn Babes items will make heirloom pieces that must be kept for the next generations.
Christmas and fairy land meld with christening in new infant gowns
Boogie Babes dance and movement class sees parents and grandparents bond with their little ones by singing, dancing and playing.
Start to boogie with the award-winning babes
Babes was given multiple anaesthetics, X-rays, underwent several hours of surgery and had to have special parrot painkillers.
Who's a pretty boy again? Parrot has nose job after door injury
"When you get to about 16 and you are given the same club blazer that the Busby Babes wore, it really hits you.
'Wearing same club blazer is an honour'
Two winning Boro Babes not pictured are Vicky O'Donnell, 19, from Normanby, and Teresa Dickson, 23, from Redcar.
Get shirty with Boro!
For me, Babes In Arms is the highlight of the musical festival.
Young cast is a Babes in Arms hit!
For an encore, the Opera Babes sang a heartfelt You'll Never Walk Alone, endearing themselves forever to at least one section of their Liverpool audience while Davies, as usual, endeared himself to all in an event he has made his own.
SUMMER POPS: Familiar charm on a warm summer's night; Last Night of the Pops Kings Dock Arena
(How many times in the following decades, would we witness late Manchester United goals and victories?) 'Brilliant Magpies Fall To The Babes' roared the headline of the Chronicle's late Football Pink on Saturday, November 23, 1957.
The Busby Babes step out at St James' for last time
The company's marketing director Hannah Squirrell said: "The Bennetts Babes have become a well-known feature in the biking world."
Ice princess Jorgie is a biker babe
The "Babes in the Wood" project was delivered by Birch Forest Schools as a result of collaboration between the Marsden and Slaithwaite Renaissance and Slaithwaite Playgroup and Toddlers (SPLAT).
Babes in the Wood learn about the forest
Matt Busby spent a total of pounds 83,999 in assembling the Babes, and that money was invested in only four players: two goalkeepers, Ray Wood (pounds 6,000 from Darlington) and Harry Gregg (pounds 23,000 from Doncaster Rovers), and two forwards, Johnny Berry (pounds 25,000 from Birmingham) and Tommy Taylor (pounds 29,999 from Barnsley).
HEROES ON 17 QUID A WEEK; Author of The Team That Wouldn't Die - the Story of the Busby Babes (Aurum Press, pounds 8.99)
A maximum of three girls and three boys will be chosen as the new Boro Babes and Boro Boys.
Boro guys and gals