Bbw
name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Initialism of big beautiful woman, used as a positive description for women who are (sometimes slightly) overweight and physically attractive. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"Dank Demoss, who’s described herself as “obese” and a BBW — “big beautiful woman” — walked into the New York City studio and sat down in a wheeled office chair before the interview started and she immediately looked uncomfortable and let the crew know it."
- 2 Initialism of big beautiful woman, used as a positive description for women who are (sometimes slightly) overweight and physically attractive.; Initialism of big-boned woman, recoinage of the acronym, making fun of the typical term for overweight women. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 3 Initialism of brake-by-wire. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 1 Initialism of Big Bad Wolf. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Example
More examples"Dank Demoss, who’s described herself as “obese” and a BBW — “big beautiful woman” — walked into the New York City studio and sat down in a wheeled office chair before the interview started and she immediately looked uncomfortable and let the crew know it."
Etymology
Abbreviations. Noun sense 1 was coined by Carole Shaw in 1979 in the first sense with the launch of BBW Magazine, a fashion and lifestyle magazine for plus-size women.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.