tbh

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A form of to be honest — Frankly, honestly.

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tbh1

prepositional phrase
  1. InternetabbreviationinitialismInitialism of to be honest.

    Even the model and actress Julia Fox commented under one post on TikTok, revealing that she’s also celibate and is enjoying it: “2.5 years of celibacy and never been better tbh,” she wrote.

    2024 May 14, Gina Cherelus, quoting Julia Fox, “Bumble to Users: You Need Sex. Users to Bumble: Get Lost.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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    Exact figures aren’t known quite yet, but WWD reported that the perfume was expected to bring home $60 million in sales for its first year on the market. Tbh, the fact that Billie [Eilish] dropped her second fragrance, aptly named Eilish No. 2, just in time for the holidays in 2021 means that she probs met that figure, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

    2024 September 4, Mehera Bonner, Samantha Olson, “Behold, A Breakdown of Billie Eilish's Massive Net Worth”, in Cosmopolitan

TBH2

phrase
  1. InternetabbreviationinitialismInitialism of to be honest.

    TBH (To be honest), I skip a lot of it too. But did read it for a while.

    1991 June 17, Bill Biesty, “Re: Stop silliness about justification for vegetarianism”, in rec.food.veg (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jul 2016, message-ID <1991Jun17.211640.29488@ide.com>
  2. abbreviationinitialismbusinessInitialism of to be hired.
  3. abbreviationinitialismobsoleteslangLGBTInitialism of to be had (“sexually available”).

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
actuallyto be honest
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APA

tbh. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tbh

MLA

“tbh.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tbh. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tbh,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tbh.

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