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bf

1 American  
[bee-ef] / ˈbiˈɛf /

abbreviation

  1. best friend.

  2. Printing. null b.f. boldface.

  3. boyfriend.


BF 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. Black female.


bf. 3 American  

abbreviation

Law.
  1. brief.


B/F 4 American  
Accounting.
  1. brought forward.


B.F. 5 American  

abbreviation

  1. Bachelor of Finance.

  2. Bachelor of Forestry.


B/F 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. brought forward

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

bf 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. Burkina Faso

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“Isn’t he too old to be my bf? lol”

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 12, 2026

“Planned Parenthood wants $650. My bf and I live in our car.”

From The Guardian Nov. 21, 2016

Your baby - you chose but stop justifying your choice to give up bf - no one is asking you to people.

From Time May 14, 2013

Little did Clements-Jeffrey and her bf, Carlton Smith, know that the laptop had theft-recovery security software installed on it.

From Forbes Aug. 30, 2011

But mostly I miss the fears bf the past few weeks, rendered small by my fears now.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

Its creator, Jonathan Badeen, was partly inspired by studying the 1940s experiments of psychologist BF Skinner, who conditioned hungry pigeons to believe that food delivered randomly into a tray was prompted by their movements.

From BBC Feb. 13, 2025

The former president’s media company dismissed BF Borgers as its independent public accounting firm on May 3, delaying the filing of the quarterly earnings report, according to a securities filings.

From Seattle Times May 20, 2024

BF Borgers agreed to pay a $12 million fine while its owner agreed to pay a fine of $2 million.

From Seattle Times May 3, 2024

Many companies that used BF Borgers must now find new auditors.

From New York Times May 3, 2024

“I think I broke him,” BF said to Ayanna.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

He came from a blue-collar home where his dad, Gary, drove a truck for B.F.

From Washington Times Sep. 26, 2022

Modern dog training is rooted in the mid-20th-century work of American psychologist B.F.

From Salon Sep. 25, 2022

A major proponent of such conditioning was psychologist B.F.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

As a child, her father took her to see the first computer at B.F.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 22, 2019

A.E. and let that plumb line touch the vtter circle, as it doth here in the point F, so shall B.F. bee that plumbe lyne.

From The Path-Way to Knowledg Containing the First Principles of Geometrie by Robert Record

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