Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

byob

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.19 in modern English

Syllables: by-ob
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

2

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

phrase

Initialism of bring your own bottle/booze/beer/beverage.

phrase

Initialism of bring your own Bible.

American usage

phrase

Initialism of bring your own buffer.

Example Sentences

"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, […]"
"It is a BYOB affair tonight, but ice, paper cups, and mixers are for sale. As the room fills, the lines lengthen."
"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."

Usage

American usage

Frequently Paired Words

BYO BYOW corkage cash bar full bar fully licensed open bar

Synonyms

BYO

Questions

What does byob mean?: Initialism of bring your own bottle/booze/beer/beverage.

How to pronounce byob

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