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BB

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What does BB mean?

noun

  1. Alternative spelling of BB.
  2. Abbreviation of baby.
  3. Initialism of baseband.
More meanings (17)

noun

  1. Initialism of BlackBerry.
  2. Initialism of basketball.
  3. Initialism of baseball.
  4. Initialism of bulletin board.
  5. Initialism of bass-baritone.
  6. A type of pellet that can be shot from a BB gun.
  7. Initialism of ball bearing.
  8. Initialism of bottom bracket.
  9. A walk; the statistic reporting the number of "bases on balls".
  10. Abbreviation of balance beam.
  11. Abbreviation of battleship.

phrase

  1. Abbreviation of bye bye.
  2. Initialism of best before.

adverb

  1. Initialism of bareback (“without a condom”).

proper noun

  1. Initialism of Big Brother.
  2. Initialism of Big Bang.
  3. Initialism of the Bangka Belitung Islands: a province of Indonesia.

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We would unlimber the shotgun and send a charge of BB into that bunch.
Stewart Edward WhiteThe Land of FootprintsProject Gutenberg ebook #1378
On the spur of the moment, and without thinking of what we were doing, we took our guns (mine was a double-barrel, with one charge of BB and one of dust-shot) and gave chase.
Henry Walter BatesThe Naturalist on the River AmazonsProject Gutenberg ebook #2440