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
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Holt now believes Giaka was a "BS artist" who was out for money and was feeding the CIA fake stories to get paid.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Last year, I congratulated “60 Minutes” for, without a hint of BS about UFOs and visiting aliens, dealing forthrightly with antagonistic foreign powers operating drones in the U.S. to spy on U.S. military sites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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
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
No one ever brushed past David’s b.s. detector mumbling “platform agnostic” or “digital first.”
From Time ● Feb. 13, 2015
"So much of it reads like dorm room b.s. from the student-government crowd," he writes.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2010
Dan received his B.S. in photojournalism from Syracuse University in 2020 and attended the 2022 Kalish Workshop at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
In addition to McHill, the research team included lead author Kathryn E. McAuliffe, B.S.,
From Science Daily ● Jan. 10, 2026
“It’s about authenticity. Joan was very approachable in the research. She reveals so much about herself. I didn’t have to cut through a lot of self-congratulatory B.S. to find what makes her tick.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025
After the storms came the flood of rumors, A.I. images, and straight-up B.S.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2024
A former navy officer was working on his B.S. degree in special education when he saw Luke’s listing on Florida’s adoption website.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
"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
“SAME tone deaf energy as this bs from the start of the pandemic,” said a different user.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
Plaskett took note of all this attention and even retweeted a message that said “@StaceyPlaskett is all of us right now listening to the bs in #CohenHearing.”
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2019
“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
A is the condition of in-sinking of the sternal surface and consequent enclosure of the lamelligerous surface of the appendage in a chamber with narrow orifice—the pulmonary air-holding chamber. pl, Pulmonary lamellae. bs, Blood sinus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
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