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1. (US) a bedbug.
DN III 357: B.b. Bedbug. | ||
Letters (1988) 57: The bbs turned out to be too damned much and I ended up [...] trying to sleep in the bath-tub. | letter in||
Great Santini (1977) 296: Carol Huger with her perfect smile and her brain the size of a BB or Sally Tomlinson with her perfect everything and her brain the size of a chigger’s eyeball. |
2. (US black) basket ball.
‘Believe Me’ in Afro-American (Baltimore, MD) 16 Mar. 12/5: Willie Wynne took all the bows at the b.b. games again this season. |