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Bbl

//biː biː ˈɛl// name, noun, phrase

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of British Basketball League. UK, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
  2. 2
    Initialism of Bank Brussels Lambert, now part of the ING Group abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
  3. 3
    Initialism of Big Bash League. Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Noun
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of barrels and occasionally also of barrel (singular).; Volumes of crude oil pumped, stored, or sold (in bulk). especially

    "measured in 1000-bbl units"

  2. 2
    Initialism of Brazilian butt lift. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "The estimated death rate from fat embolism may be as high as one in 3,000 for BBLs. A 2015 study of deaths from BBL surgery concluded that they probably occur as a result of gluteal blood vessels becoming damaged during the procedure, allowing fat to enter the bloodstream."

  3. 3
    any of various units of capacity wordnet
  4. 4
    Abbreviation of barrels and occasionally also of barrel (singular).; Barrels (casks) transported or sold, or the volume that they represent. especially

    "5 bbls. flour"

  5. 5
    Abbreviation of barrels and occasionally also of barrel (singular).; Venturis in carburetion.

    "1-bbl carburetor"

Phrase
  1. 1
    Alternative form of BBL. Internet, alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    Initialism of be back later; also bbl. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Etymology

Often thought to be modified from bl for barrel (b⸺l), reflecting a way of abbreviating that was used especially in previous centuries (compare do for ditto), wherein a doubled letter indicated plural count, as also with p.=page but pp.=pages and l.=line but ll.=lines; this method was used not only in English but also in scholarly New Latin and other modern languages heavily affected thereby, such as with Spanish EE. UU. According to this idea, addition of the suffix -s, as sometimes seen (e.g., 5 bbls or 5 bbls.), would seem to have come from writers who left the unit abbreviation itself unanalyzed (unparsed), thus adding a venially redundant marker of plural, somewhat like with MPGs for miles per gallon.

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