BBM - Wiktionary

See also: bbm

English

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Etymology 1

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Proper noun

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BBM

1. Initialism of BlackBerry Messenger.
   • 2011 August 11, J. David Goodman, “In British Riots, Social Media and Face Masks Are the Focus”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 October 2022:The police, who have already been combing through public social media postings for suspects, are working to locate others who may have posted messages via BBM, Blackberry’s private messaging service.
   • 2013 May 13, Salvador Rodriguez, “BlackBerry rolls out low-cost smartphone, BBM app for Android, iOS”, in Los Angeles Times‎[2], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 4 July 2025:The company said it hopes to release a BBM app for the two operating systems this summer, granted they receive approval by Google Play and the Apple App Store.
   • 2013 May 14, Hayley Tsukayama, “BlackBerry will bring BBM to Apple, Android; introduces cheaper Q5 phone”, in The Washington Post‎[3], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 May 2013:BlackBerry Messenger, or BBM, will be coming to phones that support Apple’s iOS 6 platform and Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich. BlackBerry chief executive Thorsten Heins said that the BBM apps for those platforms will come this summer and will be available for free.

Verb

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BBM (third-person singular simple present BBMs, present participle BBMing, simple past and past participle BBMed)

1. (ditransitive) To send (a message) to (someone) via the BlackBerry Messenger service.
   • 2009 September 11, Clay A Dumas, “So You Think You Can Shout”, in The Harvard Crimson:His comment galvanized fiscally conservative Democrats to support the president’s bill and heightened the sense of despondency among those Republican congressmen and senators who BBMed and Tweeted on their BlackBerries throughout the speech.
   • 2010 February 15, Emma Roberts, quoted by Michael Ordoña, "Sweet Times for Emma Roberts", Los Angeles Times Our generation is definitely all about the texting and the e-mailing and the BBM-ing and the IM-ing; it's endless.
   • 2012 April 11, Alex Massie, “Is Sir Simon Jenkins the Worst Columnist in Britain?”, in The Spectator:No place, perhaps not even a church (though Sir Simon does not report from Mass so it is hard to know), is safe from this facebookery and twittering and BBMing.
   • 2012, Jessica Burkhart, Initiation, →ISBN:I slid my phone onto my lap and BBMed Lexa and Khloe my number.
   • 2012, Jessica Burkhart, Popular →ISBN: “This outfit is so amaze. You look cute in breeches, too, but I want Drew to see you in this outfit. Like, now!” I laughed. “I kind of do too. And what about you? How much Zack spotting since last time we BBMed?”

Etymology 2

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Proper noun

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BBM

1. (Philippine politics) Initialism of Bongbong Marcos, 17th President of the Philippines. Synonym: PBBM

Etymology 3

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Modification of BBW (“big beautiful woman”).

Noun

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BBM (plural BBMs)

1. (sexuality) Initialism of big beautiful man. Synonym: BHM Hyponyms: BBBM, SSBBM Coordinate term: BBW

Derived terms

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• BBBM
• SSBBM

Indonesian

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Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /be.beˈ(ʔ)em/

Noun

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BBM

1. initialism of bahan bakar minyak (“fuel oil”)

Tagalog

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Pronunciation

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• (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˌbi ˌbi ˈʔem/ [ˌbɪ ˌbɪ ˈʔɛm]
• Rhymes: -em

Proper noun

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BBM (Philippine politics)

1. initialism of Bongbong Marcos