BBS
Americanabbreviation
Example Sentences
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When "directional pressure" is applied, the bb's flatten, and slack muscles snap back, their strength restored.
From Time Magazine Archive
This day being a month since we left our commission port, I have set down what quantity of provisions has been expended, viz., 9-1/2 bb's of beef, 1 bb of pork, 14 bb of Bread.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various
Remaining, 49-1/2 bb's of beef, 29 bb's of pork, 40 cwt of bread.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various
At 2 P.M. he came on board & brought with him 2 bb's of pork.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various
Sold 55 bush. corn, 41 bb's pork, 6 bb's of beef, 4 bb's of oil, and then set up Signor Cap't Francisco under the name of Don Blass.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 by Various
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