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BBM
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bbm
English
Etymology 1
Proper noun
en w:BlackBerry Messenger.
11 August 2011 J. David Goodman In British Riots, Social Media and Face Masks Are the Focus https://web.archive.org/web/20221013120100/https://archive.nytimes.com/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/11/social-media-and-facemasks-are-targets-after-british-riots/ 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.
13 May 2013 Salvador Rodriguez BlackBerry rolls out low-cost smartphone, BBM app for Android, iOS https://web.archive.org/web/20250704113446/https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2013-may-14-la-fi-tn-blackberry-q5-bbm-app-android-ios-20130514-story.html 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.
14 May 2013 Hayley Tsukayama BlackBerry will bring BBM to Apple, Android; introduces cheaper Q5 phone https://web.archive.org/web/20130515025606/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/blackberry-will-bring-bbm-to-apple-android-introduces-cheaper-q5-phone/2013/05/14/295231b2-bc9b-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html 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.
Noun
A message sent via Blackberry Messenger.
en w:Jessica Burkhart Popular Aladdin M!X, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division 2012 107 https://archive.org/details/popular0000burk/page/107/mode/1up?q=BBM 978-1-4424-1951-3 Cole told me and I typed it in. I sent him a BBM and heard a jingle in his bag. “Now you have my number too,” I said. “Text me or call whenever.”
Verb
en ditransitive To send (a message) to (someone) via the BlackBerry Messenger service.
en 2009-09-11 Clay A Dumas So You Think You Can Shout http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2009/9/11/so-you-think-you-can-shout/ 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20250815102434/https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2009/9/11/so-you-think-you-can-shout/ 15 August 2025
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.
en 2012-04-11 Alex Massie Is Sir Simon Jenkins the Worst Columnist in Britain? https://web.archive.org/web/20121017150530/http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/alex-massie/2012/04/is-sir-simon-jenkins-the-worst-columnist-in-britain/ 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.
en 2012 Jessica Burkhart Initiation 1442419482 I slid my phone onto my lap and BBMed Lexa and Khloe my number.
2012, Jessica Burkhart, Popular 1442419504:
“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
Proper noun
en Philippine politics en w:Bongbong Marcos, 17th president of the Philippines.
en PBBM
Etymology 3
Modification of en BBW big beautiful woman.
Noun
en sexuality en big beautiful man.
en BHM
en BBBM SSBBM
en BBW
Derived terms
en SSBBM BBBM
en Individuals Male people Obesity
Indonesian
Pronunciation
id /be.beˈ(ʔ)em/
Noun
id noun
id bahan bakar minyak fuel oil
Proper noun
id proper noun
id w:BlackBerry Messenger.
Tagalog
Pronunciation
bí bí 7ém
Proper noun
tl Philippine politics
tl w:Bongbong Marcos