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Bi
//baɪ// adj, name, noun, slang
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Clipping of bisexual. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable, slang
"I'm straight, but my oldest sister is bi."
- 2 Clipping of bigender. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, not-comparable, slang, uncommon
Proper Noun
- 1 Initialism of Bureau of Immigration. Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Noun
- 1 Clipping of bisexual: A bisexual person. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
"For some reason, I'm feeling _very_ sensitive to bi-discrimination tonight. I'm really not trying to mock the points being made here, it's just that many of the same arguments can be turned around and used to describe the discrimination that bis face."
- 2 A biceps muscle. colloquial, uncommon
"You cannot train your back without regard to your tris and bis."
- 3 A type of jade disk produced in ancient China.
- 4 Initialism of business interruption. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 5 a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals wordnet
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- 6 Initialism of business informatics. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 7 Initialism of business intelligence. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 8 Initialism of bad influence. Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang, uncountable
- 9 Initialism of burning index. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
Etymology
Etymology 1
Clipping of biceps.
Etymology 2
From Mandarin 璧 (bì).
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