BB
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BB
- (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Barbados.
- (finance) Long-term bond credit rating by S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings, indicating that a bond is somewhat speculative with substantial risk of default.
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BB (countable and uncountable, plural BBs)
- (electronics) Initialism of baseband.
- Initialism of BlackBerry.
- Initialism of basketball.
- Initialism of baseball.
- (computing) Initialism of bulletin board.
- A type of pellet that can be shot from a BB gun.
- Initialism of ball bearing.
- 2010, Richard Hoppe, Theodore L. Phillips, Mack Roach, Leibel and Phillips Textbook of Radiation Oncology, page 203:
- Radiopaque catheters, wires, or small metal ball bearings (BBs) are taped to the patient's skin to help in identifying any anatomic landmark, diseased tissue, or scar on the skin.
- (baseball) A walk; the statistic reporting the number of "bases on balls".
- (US, navy) Abbreviation of battleship.
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BB
- Initialism of Big Brother.
- Initialism of Big Bang.
- Initialism of Bangka-Belitung.
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- (without a condom): Thesaurus:condomless
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BB
- Initialism of best before.
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- 北鼻 (běibí)
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- Hong Kong Cantonese#Imported loanwords
- Modern Cantonese Phonology; Robert S. Bauer, Paul K. Benedict; Mouton de Gruyter; 1997; page 404
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Variety | Location | Words |
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Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 哨子 | |
Mandarin | Beijing | 哨兒, 叫雞子 |
Taiwan | 哨子 | |
Jinan | 哨子 | |
Xi'an | 哨子 | |
Wuhan | 叫珠 | |
Chengdu | 哨子, 吹吹兒, 哨哨兒, 叫叫兒 | |
Yangzhou | 叫子 | |
Hefei | 哨子 | |
Singapore | 哨子 | |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | 雞 |
Hong Kong | 雞, BB, 哨子 | |
Yangjiang | 雞 | |
Gan | Nanchang | 叫骨子 |
Hakka | Meixian | 簫仔 |
Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 嗶嗶仔 | |
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) | 嗶嗶仔 | |
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 嗶嗶仔 | |
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 嗶嗶 | |
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 嗶嗶仔, 吧嗶仔 | |
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 嗶仔 | |
Jin | Taiyuan | 哨兒, 哨子 |
Northern Min | Jian'ou | 哨仔, 觱觱仔 |
Eastern Min | Fuzhou | 觱觱響, 哨子 |
Southern Min | Xiamen | 觱仔, 委瑣 |
Quanzhou | 觱仔, 觱觱仔, 委瑣 | |
Zhangzhou | 觱仔, 委瑣 | |
Taipei | 觱觱仔 | |
New Taipei (Sanxia) | 咑觱仔 | |
Kaohsiung | 觱仔 | |
Yilan | 觱觱仔 | |
Changhua (Lukang) | 觱觱仔 | |
Taichung | 觱仔 | |
Tainan | 觱仔 | |
Hsinchu | 觱觱仔 | |
Kinmen | 觱仔 | |
Penghu (Magong) | 觱仔 | |
Singapore (Hokkien) | 觱仔 | |
Chaozhou | 觱 | |
Shantou | 技糾 | |
Jieyang | 觱, 觱囝 | |
Wu | Shanghai | 叫扁, 叫子 |
Suzhou | 叫叫, 叫鞭 | |
Wenzhou | 吹兒, 哨子, 叫子 | |
Xiang | Changsha | 叫珠子, 叫子 |
Shuangfeng | 叫子 |
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BB
- BB (a type of pellet)
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BB • (burū bakku)
- (Internet slang) Abbreviation of ブルーバック.
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BB n
- Abbreviation of barnbördshus (“birthing centre”).
- De flesta föds på BB.
- Most people are born at birthing centres.
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Declension of BB | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | BB | BB:t | BB:n | BB:na |
Genitive | BB:s | BB:ts | BB:ns | BB:nas |