blm
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.38 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Initialism of Bureau of Land Management: an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering public lands, created in 1946.
American usage
name
Initialism of Black Lives Matter: an international human rights movement, originated in 2013 within the African-American community, which campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people.
phrase
Example Sentences
- "The latrines and community showers are sinful indulgences, compared to her BLM cabin, with its frigid sponge baths on the porch at night."
- "The June 2020 protest at which the Bristol slave-trader and philanthropist's statue was brought down was a BLM protest. But none of the defendants were black. Rather, as you can tell from their names (including Milo Ponsford and Sage Willoughby) they were almost comically typical of a certain rah, right-on Bristol type."
- "But then came the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings. “My friends all told me I had to get back on Instagram and post pro-BLM,” she said, “or everyone would think I was racist”—this despite the fact that she had been participating in all the protests in her area, albeit in a quiet, behind-the-scenes way."
Usage
- Uncountable
- American usage