bbm
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.57 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
noun
A message sent via Blackberry Messenger.
name
Initialism of Bongbong Marcos, 17th President of the Philippines.
noun
Initialism of big beautiful man.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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.”"
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.