b4

A form of before — Earlier than (in time).

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b41

preposition
  1. InternetabbreviationAbbreviation of before.

    All drinks £2.50 b4 11pm.

    2011, Geraldine Bloustien, Margaret Peters, Youth, Music and Creative Cultures: Playing for Life, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 215
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    gotta be back b4 joey gets here[…]let’s get 2gether again b4 julian comes, ok?

    2004, Ellen Wittlinger, Heart on My Sleeve, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, pages 77 and 167

    Was in Orphas room 2nite readin her diary again. 4got sum of it from b4.

    2004, Paul Howard, PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids, The O’Brien Press, published 2012, →ISBN

    Then, in a staggering display of empathy for the deceased lacking, this friend segues to the narcissist nub of the matter: "Omg wat if yu get arrested b4 yur bdai."

    2009 March 10, Rosie DiManno, “Murder reduced to infantile online postings”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2009

    imagine if i die b4 i figure it out!

    2009, Tara Chace, transl., Are U 4 Real?, Dial Books, translation of original by Sara Kadefors, →ISBN

    Hope 2 run into u 2day b4 I talk 2 Callie.

    2010, Jessica Burkhart, Elite Ambition, Aladdin M!X, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, →ISBN

B42

preposition
  1. InternetabbreviationAbbreviation of before.
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APA

b4. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/b4

MLA

“b4.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/b4. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “b4,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/b4.

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