BS
See also: Appendix:Variations of "bs"
Translingual
Symbol
BS
- (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the Bahamas.
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Proper noun
BS
- (automotive) Abbreviation of Bridgestone, a tire company.
- Abbreviation of Bengali Sambat.
Noun
BS (countable and uncountable, plural BSs)
- (US) Abbreviation of Bachelor of Science.
- Synonym: BSc
- 2020 May 15, Amisha Padnani, “Is Marriage a Prize?”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 May 2020:
- And there was a time when women were told to go to college not for a B.A. or a B.S. but for an “MRS. Degree,” with the expectation of walking right off the graduation stage and down the aisle.
- Abbreviation of Bachelor of Surgery.
- (baseball) Abbreviation of blown saves.
- (accounting) Abbreviation of balance sheet.
- (slang, euphemistic, chiefly Canada, US, also card games) Abbreviation of bullshit.
- Alternative form: B.S.
- 2021 July 17, Jacob Bernstein, “Keith McNally Stirs the Pot”, in The New York Times[3], archived from the original on 17 July 2021:
- Still, he said, “I’m so tired of all this political correctness. It’s such B.S.”
- Initialism of Bartter syndrome.
Verb
BS (third-person singular simple present BSes, present participle BSing, simple past and past participle BSed)
- (slang, euphemistic) Abbreviation of bullshit.
- 2019 April 26, Christopher Ingraham, “Rich guys are most likely to have no idea what they’re talking about, study suggests”, in The Washington Post[4], archived from the original on 27 April 2019:
- Researchers embarked on a novel study intent on measuring what a Princeton philosophy professor contends is one of the most salient features of our culture — the ability to play the expert without being one. / Or, as the social scientists put it, to BS.
Anagrams
German
Noun
BS
Proper noun
BS
- ISO 3166-2:CH code of Basel-Stadt (canton)
Japanese
Noun
BS • (bī-esu)
- short for BS放送 (broadcasting satellite broadcast)
- 2022 October 19, 田中 正晴, “なぜBS1波停波を2024年3月末に実施するのか、NHKが経営計画修正案で説明会”, in 日経クロステック[5], Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.:
- 今はBSプレミアムで土曜日の夜間に特集番組を集中的に編成したり、BS1では国際情報やスポーツ、ドキュメンタリーなどを集中的に放送したりしており、大変良く視聴されている。これはBSの強みだと捉えているが、それをよりブラッシュアップした形で強化していきたい。
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See also
- 衛星放送 (eiseihōsō)
Spanish
Proper noun
BS f
- (Mexico) initialism of Baja California Sur: a state of Mexico
Vietnamese
Noun
BS
- initialism of bác sĩ