BIL
noun informal
A person’s brother-in-law: my Gran’s sister married her BIL...
- Dinner was a great success despite me nearly strangling my BIL for phoning up to tell me how to cook the sprouts properly!
- We usually open family presents with my BIL, SIL and nephew on Christmas morning.
- On the way home my BiL phoned; my MiL is in hospital.
Origin
1960s: abbreviation.
- appetising
- appetite
- appetitive
- appetizer
- appetizing
- appetizingly
- Appian Way
- applaud
- applaudable
- applaud (or cheer) someone to the echo
- applause
- applause line
- applause meter
- apple
- apple aphid
- apple aphis
- apple banana
- apple bee
- apple berry
- apple bite
- apple blight
- apple bloom
- apple bobber
- apple-bobbing
- apple borer