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BS
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Appendix:Variations of "bs"
Translingual
Symbol
1 2 the Bahamas
mul BHS ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 alpha-3
mul Bahamas
English
Alternative forms
en B.S. B. S.
Pronunciation
en En-au-BS.ogg AU
Proper noun
en automotive en w:Bridgestone, a tire company.
en w:Bengali Sambat.
Noun
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en US en Bachelor of Science.
en BSc
en-US Amisha Padnani Is Marriage a Prize? w:The New York Times 2020-05-15 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/arts/women-marriage-pop-culture.html 0362-4331 And there was a time when women were told to go to college not for a B.A. or a B.S. but for an “MRS. Degree,” with the expectation of walking right off the graduation stage and down the aisle. https://web.archive.org/web/20200515143024/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/arts/women-marriage-pop-culture.html
en Bachelor of Surgery.
en baseball en blown saves.
en accounting en balance sheet.
en bullshit en slang euphemism chiefly North American also card games en bullshit.
en B.S.
en Gasonfires Neocon Divisiveness Has Worked - On Me! Oh Damn! w:Daily Kos https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/10/17/258450/- 2006-10-17 My gut reaction was to lay into him for being a snotnosed little creep doing no more than spouting his rich daddy's BS and asking him where he got off making comments like that to a customer. 17 March 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250318080804/https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/10/17/258450/- 18 March 2025
en 2021-07-17 Jacob Bernstein Keith McNally Stirs the Pot w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/style/keith-mcnally-instagram-restaurants.html Still, he said, “I’m so tired of all this political correctness. It’s such B.S.” https://web.archive.org/web/20210717132046/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/style/keith-mcnally-instagram-restaurants.html
en Bartter syndrome.
Derived terms
en BSer
Verb
~es
en slang euphemistic en bullshit.
en 2019-04-26 Christopher Ingraham Rich guys are most likely to have no idea what they’re talking about, study suggests w:The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/04/26/rich-guys-are-most-likely-have-no-idea-what-theyre-talking-about-study-finds/ Researchers embarked on a novel study intent on measuring what a Princeton philosophy professor contends is one of the most salient features of our culture — the ability to play the expert without being one. / Or, as the social scientists put it, to BS. https://web.archive.org/web/20190427142630/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/04/26/rich-guys-are-most-likely-have-no-idea-what-theyre-talking-about-study-finds/
Anagrams
en bs s/b sb. sb SB
en Academic degrees
German
Noun
de noun
Bausoldat
Proper noun
de proper noun
de ISO 3166-2:CH code de Basel-Stadt canton
Japanese
Noun
ビー%-エス B%S
ja BS放送 (broadcasting satellite broadcast)
ja 2022-10-19 田中 正晴 なぜBS1波停波を2024年3月末に実施するのか、NHKが経営計画修正案で説明会 日経クロステック w:Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. https://xtech.nikkei.com/atcl/nxt/news/18/13962 今はBSプレミアムで土曜日の夜間に特集番組を集中的に編成したり、BS1では国際情報やスポーツ、ドキュメンタリーなどを集中的に放送したりしており、大変良く視聴されている。これはBSの強みだと捉えているが、それをよりブラッシュアップした形で強化していきたい。 https://web.archive.org/web/20250903124251/https://xtech.nikkei.com/atcl/nxt/news/18/13962/ 3 September 2025
See also
衛%星%放%送 えい%せい%ほう%そう
ja terms written in foreign scripts
Spanish
Proper noun
f
es Mexico es @init of:Baja California Sur state c/Mexico
Vietnamese
Noun
vi bác sĩ