English Explanatory Dictionary

inb4

English dictionary entry

Meanings

conj
  1. Preemptively responding to a predicted circumstance or response.

Word forms

inb4 in before

Etymology

From in before. It originated on 4chan: on threads that users thought would be locked, they would comment "in before the lock", or "I got a comment in before the thread locked." Before then got abbreviated independently into B4 or b4.

Synonyms

before
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