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HB¹

adjective

  1. abbreviation, initialism, not comparable Initialism of hard black (describing a pencil that makes lighter marks than a grade B, but darker marks than a grade H pencil). Suresh [...] takes his HB pencil and ruler out of their metal tin.

noun HBs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of horizontal branch
  2. abbreviation, initialism, slang Initialism of hot babe, someone pickup artists try to seduce. (Usually followed by a number in the 1-10 scale of physical beauty, e.g. HB10.)
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of home birth
  4. abbreviation, initialism, often, followed by a number Initialism of house bill (“a bill proposed in or passed by a legislative house”) (Compare SB.) HB2
  5. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of halfback
  6. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of horizontal bar
  7. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of high bar
  8. abbreviation, clipping Clipping of HB pencil
  9. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of host broadcaster

phrase

  1. Internet, abbreviation Abbreviation of happy birthday

verb HBs · HBing · HBed · HB'd

  1. Internet, abbreviation, initialism, transitive Initialism of hard-block i have a handful of moots that if they sb'd or hb'd me id genuinely be upset this app has ruined me huh

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Hansestadt Bremen, the German city of Bremen; used on licence plates and informally in other contexts. Let's meet in HB tomorrow.

hb²

noun hbs

  1. Internet, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of homeboy Lord if you can hear me fire my hbs so they always have time to play

verb hbs · hbing · hbed

  1. Alternative letter-case form of HB (“hard-block”).

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: bart, hv, deoxy, oxy, gam, cii, egf, locksley, devastated, brokenhearted, grief-stricken, inconsolable, crushed, desolate, forlorn, sorrowful

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Chicago

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@misc{hb_2026,
  title = {hb},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hb},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}