HB

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Initialism of Hansestadt Bremen, the German city of Bremen; used on licence plates and informally in other contexts.
adj
  1. Initialism of hard black (describing a pencil that makes lighter marks than a grade B, but darker marks than a grade H pencil).
noun
  1. Initialism of horizontal branch.
  2. Initialism of hot babe, someone pickup artists try to seduce. (Usually followed by a number in the 1-10 scale of physical beauty, e.g. HB10.)
  3. Initialism of home birth.
  4. Initialism of house bill (“a bill proposed in or passed by a legislative house”) (Compare SB.)
  5. Initialism of halfback.
  6. Initialism of horizontal bar.
  7. Initialism of high bar.
  8. Clipping of HB pencil
phrase
  1. Abbreviation of happy birthday.
verb
  1. Initialism of hard-block.
noun
  1. Initialism of homeboy.
verb
  1. Alternative letter-case form of HB (“hard-block”).

Pronunciation

En-au-HB.ogg

Word forms

HB HBs HBing HBed HB'd

Related words

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