BB

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BB, Bb, or similar, may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

  • BB, abbreviation for a catalogue of works by Béla Bartók
  • BB (album), by Mod Sun (2017)
  • "BB Talk", 2015 song by Miley Cyrus
  • "BB poison", a song by Death Grips from the album Bottomless Pit
  • BB (Transformers), a character in the franchise
  • BB, pseudonym of author and artist Denys Watkins-Pitchford
  • BB, an AAlib ASCII art demo for MS-DOS and Linux
  • BB, the signatory monogram of the artist Bessie Bamber
  • Les B.B., a Canadian band from Quebec
  • Baahubali (franchise), an Indian historical epic media franchise, often abbreviated as BB
  • BattleBots, a robot combat TV show
  • Beast Boy, a comic book character
  • Beyond Birthday, a character from the novel Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases
  • Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four), a character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • Big Brother (TV series), home living reality TV popularity contest show
  • Billy Butcher, supporting character and final antagonist of The Boys comic book series
  • BB, the production code for the 1966 Doctor Who serial The War Machines
  • Balloon Boy, an animatronic character in Five Nights at Freddy's
  • BB-8, a robot in the Star Wars franchise
  • Breaking Bad
  • Bugs Bunny

Businesses and organizations

  • BB 2000 Ltd, publisher of British Birds
  • BB Bloggingsbooks, an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing
  • BB Microlight, a Hungarian ultralight aircraft manufacturer
  • Balair (IATA airline code)
  • Banco do Brasil S.A., largest Brazilian and Latin American bank by assets
  • Bavarian Peasants' League or BB, a former German political party
  • BlackBerry Limited (stock ticker BB), Canadian technology company
  • Borderland Beat, an English-language news blog covering the Mexican Drug War
  • Boys' Brigade, a Christian youth organization
  • Seaborne Airlines, IATA airline code

People

  • B. B. King (1925–2015), American musician and songwriter
  • Brigitte Bardot (born 1934), French actress
  • Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007), former Pakistani prime minister
  • Denys Watkins-Pitchford (1905–1990), British children's author's pseudonym
  • Bipasha Basu (born 1979), Indian actress, referred to by the shorthand B. B.
  • Balayya Babu or BB, nicknames of Indian actor Balakrishna (born 1960)
    • Balakrishna-Boyapati, Indian actor and director duo, known as BB, cf. BB3

Places

  • BB postcode area, Blackburn, England
  • Barbados (ISO and NATO 2-letter country code BB)
    • .bb, the top-level domain for Barbados
  • Bourbon County, Kansas (state county code)
  • Brandenburg, Germany (ISO 3166-2 code BB)

Science

  • Branch and bound, a general algorithm for finding optimal solutions
  • Busy beaver class in computing theory, a type of Turing Machine
  • Beta blocker, medication used to manage arrhythmias and to protect the heart from a second heart attack after a first heart attack

Transportation

  • BB Microlight, a Hungarian ultralight aircraft manufacturer
  • Bürgenstock-Bahn, a funicular railway in the Swiss canton of Nidwalden
  • Toyota bB, a car sold in Japan
  • NZR Bb class, a New Zealand locomotive class
  • Balair (IATA airline code BB, 1925-2001)
  • Seaborne Airlines (IATA airline code BB, 1992-present)
  • Buckingham Branch Railroad (reporting mark BB)
  • A US Navy hull classification symbol: Battleship (BB)
  • B (New York City Subway service), known as BB before 1967
  • B-B, a classification of AAR wheel arrangement of railway locomotives

Other uses

  • BB (ammunition), ammunition for a BB gun
  • Base on balls in baseball, commonly known as a walk
  • BB cream, a type of cosmetic
  • Bed and breakfast or B&B, a style of accommodation
  • BBCode, a lightweight markup language used to format posts in many message boards

See also

  • B-flat (disambiguation) (B♭)
  • B&B (disambiguation)
  • Bebe (disambiguation)
  • Beebee (disambiguation)
  • Bibi (disambiguation)
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