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• B/o
  B/o

  brought over.
• b.o.
  b.o.

  abbreviation

  back order.
• B.O.
  B.O.

  abbreviation

  Board of Ordnance.
• B/O
  B/O

  abbreviation

  accounting brought over
• BO
  BO

  abbreviation

  body odour
• bo
  bo

  interjection

  an exclamation uttered to startle or surprise someone, esp a child in a game

B/o

¹ American  

Accounting.

1. brought over.

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b.o. ² American  

abbreviation

1. back order.

2. box office.

3. branch office.

4. broker's order.

5. buyer's option.

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B.O. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. Board of Ordnance.

2. Informal. body odor.

3. Theater. box office.

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b.o. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. back order

2. branch office

3. broker's order

4. buyer's option

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B/O ² British  

abbreviation

1. accounting brought over

2. buyer's option

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BO ³ British  

abbreviation

1. informal body odour

2. box office

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bo ⁴ British  

/ bəʊ /

interjection

1. an exclamation uttered to startle or surprise someone, esp a child in a game

2. slang an exclamation of encouragement or an expression of enthusiasm

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bo ⁵ British  

abbreviation

1. Bolivia

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Example Sentences

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b.o. B.O. B/O BO bo

And the new entry, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, has, in Variety's cheery phrase, "slashed its way into b.o. history."

From Time Magazine Archive

Lucas, who will turn 58 two days before the movie opens, is given to fretting; he even worried that Phantom Menace would tank at the b.o.

From Time Magazine Archive

When you sacked Rome with the Visigoths, you could smell the smoky scent of the burning city as well as the barbarians’ b.o.

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

“I’m going to miss B.O. for sure, playing with him, his attitude, his love for the game,” Jefferson said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

The Midshipmen had an alarming amount of B.O. last week in a 14-7 loss to Delaware — the program’s first loss to a Football Championship Subdivision opponent since 2007.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022

And by good mood I mean he accused the entire press room of having B.O.:

From Golf Digest ● Apr. 11, 2019

But your free-spirited bridesmaid is not stinking up the joint with her B.O.; you just feel she is giving visual offense with her undergrowth.

From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2012

And in the Nation of April 23, 1914, Prof. Arthur Gordon Webster, the eminent physicist of Clark University, after speaking of the late B.O.

From The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 by Various

A Trust Bank worker interviewed by Reuters said that B/O stood for "by order of" and WDL stood for "withdrawal".

From Reuters ● Feb. 24, 2017

To tackle these limitations, the researchers implemented a practical optimization scheme known as "constrained BO."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2024

"What happened in Ukraine happened at the same time as the crisis in this country got worse," said Ouedraogo, who runs the BO Foundation in Burkina Faso.

From Reuters ● May 30, 2022

While the armpit microbiome consists of various types of bacteria, it is dominated in part by Corynebacterium and Staphylococcus species, which are also key contributors to body odor, or BO.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2021

He added that Bezos “needs to run BO full-time for it to be successful. Frankly, I hope he does.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2021

Would you rather have constant BO or excessive body hair?

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

Braised pig intestines, pha lau, have sporadically appeared on the menu, and so has the spicy, lemongrass-rich beef noodle soup called bun bo hue.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2021

But bo ssam isn’t just about the meat — it’s about the whole package.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2020

Writer Jantje Friese and director Baran bo Odar had always planned to make three seasons.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2020

You could be eating bo ssäm for Friendsgiving.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 26, 2019

“You can never be too careful about your supplies,” she said to Mrs. Sidman, who, because she was eating hot thit bo kho, was happy enough not to blame anything on me.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt