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BB noun- in baseball, a fastball US
A pitch thrown so fast that it seems as small as a BB pellet to the batter. - But after visiting the clubhouse he came out throwing BBs. — Jim Bouton, Ball Four, p. 326, 1970
- Most mortals haven’t the foggiest notion what it takes to walk to the plate in the bottom of the 12th inning with the fate of the National League pennant in their hands and some mountainous Baby Huey character from Knobnoster, Mo., throwing BB’s at them from the mound. — Record (Bergen County, New Jersey), p. D1, 15 October 1986
- — Mike Whiteford, How to Talk Baseball, p. 80, 1987
- Oakland rookie phenom Rich Harden, who came to start the 11th, was doing what he usually does when he’s on the mound–throwing BB’s. — Boston Herald, p. B4, 5 October 2003
- any smart person, especially a professor US
An abbreviation of “big brains”. - — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
- a male homosexual UK, 1961
An abbreviation of BBOY.
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