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BS

1 American  
[bee-es] / ˈbiˈɛs /
Or B.S.,

abbreviation

  1. bullshit.

idioms

  1. call BS. bullshit.

b/s 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. bags.

  2. bales.

  3. bill of sale.

b.s. 3 American  
Or bs

abbreviation

  1. balance sheet.

  2. bill of sale. Also B.S., BS, b/s

B.S. 4 American  

abbreviation

  1. Bachelor of Science.

  2. Bachelor of Surgery.

B/S 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. bags

  2. bales

  3. bill of sale

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BS 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. Bachelor of Surgery

  2. British Standard(s) (indicating the catalogue or publication number of the British Standards Institution)

  3. Bahamas (international car registration)

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B.S. 3 British  

abbreviation

  1. Bachelor of Science

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bs 4 British  

abbreviation

  1. Bahamas

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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

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