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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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
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
He claimed he wasn’t hungry because he was thinking about how we were gonna get to Mexico, but that was BS.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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
From those responses, Graeber produced a taxonomy of b.s. jobs he outlines in the book: "goons," "flunkies," "box tickers," "task masters" and "duct tapers."
From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2018
But it's easier to report on b.s. than it is to do real work to build a story of value to those reading it. dre23222 Good article.
From Time ● Jun. 24, 2013
"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
He talks about Dean as this inspiration and visionary guy but he also just says, “I’m going to call B.S. on all the spiritual, mystical stuff.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
In addition to McHill, the research team included lead author Kathryn E. McAuliffe, B.S.,
From Science Daily ● Jan. 10, 2026
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
“You are smart enough to think through some bs propaganda,” Brian wrote to A.J. on Facebook.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
This won't be the last failure of this nature so long as people are rewarded for pushing this bs.
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
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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