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BYOB
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English
Phrase
phr
en also attributive en bring your own bottle/booze/beer/beverage.
en BYO
en cash bar full bar fully licensed open bar
en 2005 Jax Peters Lowell The Gluten-Free Bible: The Thoroughly Indispensable Guide to Negotiating Life without Wheat Holt Paperbacks 9781466806184 Whether you choose a modest family restaurant, the little café around the corner, the new BYOB everybody's talking about, or even the local pizza palace,
en 2011 Charles Farley Soul of the Man: Bobby "Blue" Bland Univ. Press of Mississippi 9781604739206 117 It is a BYOB affair tonight, but ice, paper cups, and mixers are for sale. As the room fills, the lines lengthen.
en US Utah en bring your own Bible.
en
en computing en bring your own buffer.
en 2023-08-01 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/116.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 116.0 release notes This release now supports proper BYOB readers on Fetch and WebTransport, which allows developers to prepare their ArrayBuffer so that it can be reused for read requests and thus saves memory allocation. https://web.archive.org/web/20250731145444/https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/116.0/releasenotes/ 31 July 2025
Usage notes
Used both as an adjective, to describe a restaurant which allows diners to bring their own alcohol (particularly if the restaurant itself is not licensed to sell alcohol), as a noun to refer to such a restaurant, and as an admonition in social invitations that guests should in fact bring beverages, as none will be provided by the host (similar to RSVP).
Related terms
en BYO BYOW
See also
en corkage
Anagrams
en bboy B-boy b-boy obby
en Food and drink