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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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
But he cautions that “healthcare can’t tolerate significant errors. We have to minimize the errors, the hallucinations, the confabulations, the BS and the sycophancy” that AI technology commonly displays.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 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
BS Prahallad, technical director of the government-backed Bengaluru Smart Infrastructure Limited, set up to manage major projects, said an average resident needed 90-100 minutes to cover 16 kilometres.
From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025
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
Silicon Valley chiefs of staff described themselves as b.s. detectors and filters for their bosses.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2016
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
In addition to McHill, the research team included lead author Kathryn E. McAuliffe, B.S.,
From Science Daily ● Jan. 10, 2026
The president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and Google shares her foolproof B.S. detector and why big tech can be like playing with fire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
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
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
“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," 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
These sacs are of two different kinds, one set being short and stout os, the others having long necks like bottles bs.
From Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science by Buckley, Arabella B.
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