QB

¹

Chess.

1. queen's bishop.

q.b.

²

abbreviation

Football.

1. quarterback.

Q.B.

³

abbreviation

1. Queen's Bench.

QB

abbreviation

1. Queen's Bench

symbol

1. chess queen's bishop

Example Sentences

“Instead of an amount it just says, q.b. or quanto basta — that amount that is enough. It’s the Italian shrug of the recipe.”

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N.F.L. playbooks can be hundreds or thousands of pages long, and, for each play, the Q.B. must know the assignments of the other ten offensive players on the field.

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During training camp in 2003, Romo’s rookie season, Parcells barks at his Q.B.,

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Now he wasn’t anyone’s franchise Q.B. anymore; he was a backup.

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Foles took over when Vick pulled a hamstring in the Giants game at the Meadowlands—Harry and I were in the stands that day—and, in the ensuing weeks, the Q.B. went on a remarkable run, peaking in the Oakland game in which he threw for seven touchdowns and earned a perfect passing rating, the only time any quarterback has done both at the same time.

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