BS
abbreviation
BS
1 American
[bee-es]
/ ˈbiˈɛs /
Or
B.S.,
abbreviation
idioms
b/s
2
American
b.s.
3
American
Or
bs
B.S.
4
American
B/S
1
British
abbreviation
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bags
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bales
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bill of sale
BS
2
British
abbreviation
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Bachelor of Surgery
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British Standard(s) (indicating the catalogue or publication number of the British Standards Institution)
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Bahamas (international car registration)
B.S.
3
British
abbreviation
bs
4
British
abbreviation
Example Sentences
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Claims that the latest Anthropic release “just killed graphic designers” or “just killed accountants” or “just killed social media managers” all land as BS.
From Slate ● May 24, 2026
So inevitably, investment bankers have the “markets talk, BS walks” conversation: “Yes, we said you’d be worth a trillion dollars, but investors are demanding a clear path to profitability.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
“He’s someone who lost his BS detector and has drunk his own Kool-Aid.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
She led the study together with Alaina Durant, BS, a statistical genetic analyst in the Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer's Center.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 22, 2026
“I can’t even—” He looked at Dimple like, Can you believe this BS?
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
If you watched the almost video, and saw a particular heelflip b/s smith on the LA high rail, but didn't know who it was, let me introduce you.
From Time Magazine Archive
"You're locked on a base. ... The ability to b.s. is a special skill set," he said, joking about the monotony of military life in a war zone.
From Fox News ● Feb. 13, 2020
I decide that instead of making up some b.s. story about lost or damaged tickets, I’m going to go to Hord’s office and tell him the truth.
From Golf Digest ● Aug. 28, 2019
He would smell b.s. a mile off with his eyes shut and mothballs up his hooter.
From Time ● Oct. 6, 2016
This book is about my battle with mental illness, but, more importantly, it’s about celebrating the battles we win against life and b.s. and sometimes our very brains.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 18, 2015
"So much of it reads like dorm room b.s. from the student-government crowd," he writes.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2010
She graduated from Skidmore College with a B.S. in Fine Art and received her M.F.A. in Illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
In addition to McHill, the research team included lead author Kathryn E. McAuliffe, B.S.,
From Science Daily ● Jan. 10, 2026
She just didn’t put up with B.S. from guys who were trying to diminish her, call her irrational and insinuate she was clingy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2025
After the storms came the flood of rumors, A.I. images, and straight-up B.S.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2024
How to B.S. the fact I had cheated and seen the answer, rather than being in possession of brain power to actually work it through.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
"This won't be the last failure of this nature so long as people are rewarded for pushing this bs," he said.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2023
But he has also been dismissive, as he was as recently as Dec. 20, when he tweeted, “Bitcoin is almost as bs as fiat money.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2021
Mark Morgioni The concept of tests is also bs.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2020
“Hey Joe, my buddy was offered an eli game used helmet and jersey. Are these the bs ones eli asked you to make up because he didnt want to give up the real stuff?”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2017
IV Breast-fin: sg shoulder-zone, ax fin-axis, ss double lines of fin-rays, bs additional rays, sch plates.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
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