b

uppercase B · plural bs · plural b's

1. letterlowercaseThe second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.

uppercase B · plural bs · plural b's

1. lowercaseThe second numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.

1. abbreviationnot comparableAbbreviation of born.

1. astronomylatitude in the galactic coordinate system
2. natural sciencesbarn
3. computingbit
4. ball gamesbye
5. sizebig

1. InternetabbreviationAbbreviation of be.

   ima prolly b at home tn

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   i am looking for any safari i am trying to fill my dex and it would b rly nice :D especially fire,ice, flying, since i don't a lot of those but everyone is welcome to add me :DD

   2020 February 27, u/Sneasel_, “adding everyone!”, in Reddit, r/friendsafari, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2023

   if u aren't tryna b like this don't hmu

   2021 October 27, @heluvstat, Twitter, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2023

   I wanna b like those girls who study NON STOP and are basically addicted to studying, any tips?

   2023 October 27, u/electriccitydrive, “How do I become obsessed with studying”, in Reddit, r/GetStudying, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2023

   school pizza party pizza b like

   2023 November 6, @1tyreece, Twitter, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2023

lowercase b · plural Bs · plural B's

1. letteruppercaseThe second letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.

   Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]

   1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC

lowercase b · plural Bs · plural B's

1. uppercaseThe second numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.

plural Bs

1. uncountableusuallyThe quantity one billion (1,000,000,000), usually used to signify a sum of money.

   $2.8 B

   two point eight billion dollars (i.e., $2,800,000,000)

2. UKuncountableusuallyThe grade of pencil, “black”, that makes darker marks than grade HB but lighter marks than grade 2B; a pencil with soft lead.
3. abbreviationuncountableusuallyboard gamesAbbreviation of bishop.

   1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 exd4 4. e5 Ne4 5. Qxd4 d5 6. exd6 e.p. Nxd6 7. Bg5 Nc6 8. Qe3+ Be7 9. Nbd2 0-0 10. 0-0-0 Re8 11. Kb1 (=)

   2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE, page 23

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   The correct answer is 1.Rxf6 Rxf6 2.Rf1 Raf8 3.Qg5 Kg7 4.Nh5+ Other sub-variations work, such as playing 2.Qg5 then 3.Rf1 or playing 4.Bxf6+ first before playing 5.Nh5+.

   2023 August 12, GM Noël Studer, “Mastering Chess Puzzles: The Comprehensive Guide to Effective Problem Solving”, in Next Level Chess

4. uncountableusuallyball gamesThe number of balls faced by a batsman.
5. uncountableusuallyentertainmentBass.
6. AustraliacountableeuphemisticusuallyBastard.

   I mean, some little B put in a protest because apparently a pineapple isn't strictly a flower.

   2003, Gina Riley and Jane Turner, That's Unusual, Sydney: ABC Books, page 153

7. countableeuphemisticusuallyBitch.

   Yo, I got this bad B coming from upsy. She just wanna bruck her back and give ucky.

   2020 March 26, “Chucky”performed by Dezzie

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   [quoting an ethnographer’s account:] He then called me a “dumb B” and hung up the phone. Meredith pauses, looks at Graciela, and says, “Okay, I need you to be as specific as you can, so that means you’re going to have to tell me what he called you, exactly.” […] Graciela grabs the pen and writes down, “Dumb Bitch.” […] Robert then arrived at my house that day to see our son and upon leaving said, “I’ll see you in court you Dumb B.”

   2011 December 25, Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, Linda L. Shaw, Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Second Edition, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 99

   And then he looked again and she wasn’t there. So he probably thought, ‘Stupid B’. You know.

   2016 May 23, Caron Lipman, Co-habiting with Ghosts: Knowledge, Experience, Belief and the Domestic Uncanny, Routledge, →ISBN, page 179

8. Multicultural London Englishabbreviationuncountableusuallychiefly African-American VernacularAbbreviation of blood or blud: used to address a friend, especially a male.

   You’re a fuckboy whose most used phrase is, "wag one b, wys?"[.] Pulling girls at Gravity Monday is the highlight of your week. You constantly send selfies flexing your muscles and showing off your ‘six pack.’

   2018 October 8, Ruby Bloom, “What your favourite social media says about you”, in The Tab

9. countableusuallyimmunologyA B cell.

   Mind your Bs and Ts […] And if the combined efforts of macrophages, b cells and t cells are sufficient, the pathogen will be beaten back and eventually cleared from the body.

   2020 May 2, “Leaving lockdown means understanding immune responses to the virus”, in The Economist

1. computingbyte

plural Bs

1. A personality type describing people who are relaxed and easygoing and able to engage in leisure activities without worrying about work.
2. An academic grade, better than a C and worse than an A.
3. Signifies a second-tier or second class of a given commodity, group, or category, as in B-movie, B-list, etc.

   The television studio revived some of its B characters for the spinoff.

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   The baddest of the Bs, then, are a rare, precious mix of jerry-built production values and jazzed-up creative juices. But that’s not to say that even with a budget, a B movie can’t still bounce way off the wall, […]

   1999, Michael Sauter, The Worst Movies of All Time, Or, What Were They Thinking?, page 268

4. The alternate or secondary part, such as the back side of a phonograph record. Contrasted with ‘A’, which is the primary part.
5. entertainmentThe seventh note in the C major scale.
6. entertainmentA major chord having the notes B–D♯–F♯ as the root, third, and fifth; the major scale with B as its keynote.

   He ordered Chet's guitar course COD Makes A, E, workin' on B Digs C&W an' R&B An' me an' a chimpanzee agree That one day soon he'll be A celebrity.

   1969, “Gitarzan”, Ray Stevens, Bill Everette (lyrics), performed by Ray Stevens

1. computer languagesA programming language from which C is derived.