BB explained

BB, Bb, or similar, may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• • BB numbers, in the catalogue of works by Béla Bartók "BB", a chant supporting Big Brother in Nineteen Eighty-Four
• BB, a 2017 album by Mod Sun
• BB, a character in
• Beyond Birthday, a character from the novel
• Big Brother (franchise), a TV reality competition
• BB, production code for 1966 Doctor Who serial The War Machines

Businesses and organizations

• BB Bloggingsbooks, an imprint of OmniScriptum
• BB Microlight, a Hungarian aircraft manufacturer
• Banco do Brasil, a Brazilian financial services company
• Bavarian Peasants' League (Bayerischer Bauernbund), a former German political party
• BlackBerry Limited (stock ticker BB), Canadian technology company
• Borderland Beat, a news blog covering the Mexican drug war
• Boys' Brigade, a Christian youth organization

People

• BB, pseudonym of author and artist Denys Watkins-Pitchford
• BB, monogram of artist Bessie Bamber
• BB, American rapper and member of CUZZOS
• B. B. King (1925–2015), American musician and songwriter
• BB Trickz (Belize Nicolau Kazi, born 2000), Spanish rapper
• Brigitte Bardot (born 1934), French actress often referred to by her initials BB
• Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007), former Pakistani prime minister, nickname BB
• Bipasha Basu (born 1979), Indian actress, nickname BB

Places

• BB postcode area, Blackburn, England
• Barbados (ISO 3166 code BB)
  • .bb, top-level domain for Barbados

Science

• Branch and bound, a method for solving optimization problems
• Busy beaver class in computing theory, a type of Turing Machine
• Beta blocker, medication used to manage arrhythmias

Transportation

Air

• BB Airways, a former Nepalese airline
• Balair, a defunct Swiss airline, IATA airline code BB
• Seaborne Airlines, IATA airline code BB

Rail

• Buckingham Branch Railroad, reporting mark BB, in Virginia, U.S.
• Bürgenstock Funicular (Bürgenstock-Bahn), a Swiss funicular railway
• NZR B^B class, a New Zealand locomotive class
• B-B, a classification of AAR wheel arrangement of railway locomotives
• B (New York City Subway service), known as BB before 1967

Other uses in transportation

• Toyota bB, a car sold in Japan
• BB, classification of battleships of the United States Navy

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

See also

• • B-flat (disambiguation) (B♭)
• B&B (disambiguation)
• Bebe (disambiguation)
• Beebe (disambiguation)
• Beebee (disambiguation)
• Bibi (disambiguation)
• BBCode, a lightweight markup language
• Bed and breakfast or B&B, a small lodging establishment
• Dobol B TV ('Double B TV'), a Philippines news program
• Les B.B., a Canadian band