BB
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- noun
- /biː biː/
:
balín
- The tink of BBs on tin cans, the shattering of glass bottles.
- BB gun
- BB pellets
- shoot BBs
This was accidental BB hits, you know, so.
- This was accidental BB hits, you know, so.
- So it's not one, it's not one BB and one laser pulse per day.
- Pop pop off the top of the roof with BB guns with those small metal hitters, bro.
- Toy museum quotes from Bible on walls, BB gun annex.
Examples
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When I was a kid, I tried shooting a squirrel with a BB gun, and I just couldn't.
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He ends up giving me a BB gun.
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So, I got the BB gun and shot at him.
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You want me to get my BB gun?
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An old farmer used to live around here with a BB gun.
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You'll never win with that BB gun!
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Little Lefty clutches the BB gun in his lap.
Fiction book (2000) -
That's a BB gun.
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Little Lefty has got his BB gun and nothing—not even weather—can get him.
Fiction book (2000) -
The child excitedly loaded a BB into the air rifle before taking aim.
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Etymology
BB started as the name for a very small metal ball used as 'shot' in guns and later became the name for the pellets used in air guns. It may come from 'ball bearing' or from a shotgun size called 'BB', which is why a BB today is a tiny steel pellet.