BS

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bs"

Translingual

Symbol

BS

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the Bahamas.

   Synonym: BHS (alpha-3)

English

Alternative forms

• B.S., B. S.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Proper noun

BS

1. (automotive) Abbreviation of Bridgestone, a tire company.
2. Abbreviation of Bengali Sambat.

Noun

BS (countable and uncountable, plural BSs)

1. (US) Abbreviation of Bachelor of Science.

   Synonym: BSc

   • 2020 May 15, Amisha Padnani, “Is Marriage a Prize?”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 May 2020:

     And there was a time when women were told to go to college not for a B.A. or a B.S. but for an “MRS. Degree,” with the expectation of walking right off the graduation stage and down the aisle.

2. Abbreviation of Bachelor of Surgery.
3. (baseball) Abbreviation of blown saves.
4. (accounting) Abbreviation of balance sheet.
6. (slang, euphemistic, chiefly Canada, US, also card games) Abbreviation of bullshit.

   Alternative form: B.S.

   • 2006 October 17, Gasonfires, “Neocon Divisiveness Has Worked - On Me! Oh Damn!”, in Daily Kos‎:

     My gut reaction was to lay into him for being a snotnosed little creep doing no more than spouting his rich daddy's BS and asking him where he got off making comments like that to a customer.

   • 2021 July 17, Jacob Bernstein, “Keith McNally Stirs the Pot”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 17 July 2021:

     Still, he said, “I’m so tired of all this political correctness. It’s such B.S.”

7. Initialism of Bartter syndrome.

Verb

BS (third-person singular simple present BSes, present participle BSing, simple past and past participle BSed)

1. (slang, euphemistic) Abbreviation of bullshit.
   • 2019 April 26, Christopher Ingraham, “Rich guys are most likely to have no idea what they’re talking about, study suggests”, in The Washington Post‎, archived from the original on 27 April 2019:

     Researchers embarked on a novel study intent on measuring what a Princeton philosophy professor contends is one of the most salient features of our culture — the ability to play the expert without being one. / Or, as the social scientists put it, to BS.

Anagrams

• s/b, sb., sb, SB

German

Noun

BS

1. Bausoldat

Proper noun

BS

1. ISO 3166-2:CH code of Basel-Stadt (canton)

Japanese

Noun

B(ビー)S(エス) • (bī-esu) 

1. short for BS放送 (broadcasting satellite broadcast)
   • 2022 October 19, 田中 正晴, “なぜBS1波停波を2024年3月末に実施するのか、NHKが経営計画修正案で説明会”, in 日経クロステック‎, Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.:

     今はBSプレミアムで土曜日の夜間に特集番組を集中的に編成したり、BS1では国際情報やスポーツ、ドキュメンタリーなどを集中的に放送したりしており、大変良く視聴されている。これはBSの強みだと捉えているが、それをよりブラッシュアップした形で強化していきたい。

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See also

• 衛(えい)星(せい)放(ほう)送(そう) (eiseihōsō)

Spanish

Proper noun

BS f

1. (Mexico) initialism of Baja California Sur: a state of Mexico

Vietnamese

Noun

BS

1. initialism of bác sĩ