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BBW
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bbw
English
Etymology
Abbreviations.
en Q1397890 1 was en Carole Shaw - 1979 1 1 in the first sense with the launch of BBW Magazine, a fashion and lifestyle magazine for plus-size women.
Noun
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en Q1397890 en sexuality en big beautiful woman used as a positive description for women who are (sometimes slightly) overweight and physically attractive.
en BBBW SSBBW
en BBM BHM
en 2025-02-11 Patrick Reilly 500-pound rapper suing Lyft over ride denial asks for couch over chair at ‘Breakfast Club’ interview: ‘This is accommodation’ https://nypost.com/2025/02/11/us-news/500-lb-rapper-suing-lyft-asks-for-couch-at-breakfast-club-interview/ Dank Demoss, who’s described herself as “obese” and a BBW — “big beautiful woman” — walked into the New York City studio and sat down in a wheeled office chair before the interview started and she immediately looked uncomfortable and let the crew know it. https://web.archive.org/web/20250328093614/https://nypost.com/2025/02/11/us-news/500-lb-rapper-suing-lyft-asks-for-couch-at-breakfast-club-interview/
en big-boned woman recoinage of the acronym, making fun of the typical term for overweight women.
en automotive en brake-by-wire.
Derived terms
en SSBBW BBBW
Proper noun
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en w:Big Bad Wolf.
Further reading
Big Beautiful Woman
brake-by-wire
Anagrams
en bbw BWB
en 3-letter abbreviations
en Female people Obesity