APB

all-points bulletin.

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APB

abbreviation for (in the US)

all-points bulletin

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APB

also a.p.b., 1960, police jargon initialism for all-points bulletin, itself attested by 1953 (perhaps more in the jargon of detective novels than in actual police use).

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