Bbm

name, noun, verb

name, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of big beautiful man. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Verb
  1. 1
    To send (a message) to (someone) via the BlackBerry Messenger service. ditransitive

    "His comment galvanized fiscally conservative Democrats to support the president’s bill and heightened the sense of despondency among those Republican congressmen and senators who BBMed and Tweeted on their BlackBerries throughout the speech."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of BlackBerry Messenger. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "The police, who have already been combing through public social media postings for suspects, are working to locate others who may have posted messages via BBM, Blackberry’s private messaging service."

  2. 2
    Initialism of Bongbong Marcos, 17th President of the Philippines. Philippine, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Example

More examples

"The police, who have already been combing through public social media postings for suspects, are working to locate others who may have posted messages via BBM, Blackberry’s private messaging service."

Etymology

Modification of BBW (“big beautiful woman”).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.