BB, Bb, or similar, may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

*BB, abbreviation for a catalogue of works by

Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as H ...

* ''BB'' (album), by Mod Sun (2017) *" BB Talk", 2015 song by Miley Cyrus * BB (Transformers), a character in the franchise *BB, pseudonym of author and artist Denys Watkins-Pitchford *

Les B.B. Les B.B. (pronounced leh beh beh) was a Canadian band from the province of Quebec. It had great success in the 1980s and the early 1990s. It is made up of Patrick Bourgeois (vocals, guitar, bass), Alain Lapointe (keyboards, guitar, bass and backi ...

, a Canadian band from Quebec * BattleBots, a robot combat TV show * Beast Boy, a comic book character *Beyond Birthday, a character from the novel '' Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases'' * Big Brother (''Nineteen Eighty-Four'') or BB in Orwell's novel * ''Big Brother'' (TV series), home living reality TV popularity contest show * Billy Butcher, supporting character and final antagonist of the ''The Boys'' comic book series ** ''Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker'', spin-off comic miniseries of ''The Boys'', following Billy Butcher *** "Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker" (''The Boys''), television adaptation of the comic miniseries *BB, the production code for the 1966 ''Doctor Who'' serial '' The War Machines'' *Balloon Boy, an animatronic character in Five Nights at Freddy's * BB-8, a robot in the Star Wars franchise *

Breaking Bad ''Breaking Bad'' is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows Walter White (Bryan Cranston), an underpaid, overqualified, and dispirited hig ...

Bugs Bunny Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character created in the late 1930s by Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros. Cartoons) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc. Bugs is best known for his starring roles in the '' Looney Tunes'' and '' ...

Businesses and organisations

*BB 2000 Ltd, publisher of ''British Birds'' *

BB Bloggingsbooks Omniscriptum Publishing Group, formerly known as VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, is a German publishing group headquartered in Riga, Latvia. Founded in 2002 in Düsseldorf, its book production is based on print-to-order technology. The company publis ...

, an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing * BB Microlight, a Hungarian ultralight aircraft manufacturer * Balair (IATA airline code) *

Banco do Brasil S.A. Banco do Brasil S.A. ( en, Bank of Brazil) is a Brazilian financial services company headquartered in Brasília, Brazil. The oldest bank in Brazil, and among the List of oldest banks in continuous operation, oldest banks in continuous operation i ...

, largest Brazilian and Latin American bank by assets * Bavarian Peasants' League or BB, a former German political party * BlackBerry Limited (stock ticker BB), Canadian technology company * Borderland Beat, an English-language news blog covering the Mexican Drug War * Boys' Brigade, a Christian youth organization * Seaborne Airlines, IATA airline code

People

Brigitte Bardot Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot ( ; ; born 28 September 1934), often referred to by her initials B.B., is a former French actress, singer and model. Famous for portraying sexually emancipated characters with hedonistic lifestyles, she was one of the ...

(born 1934), French actress *

Benazir Bhutto Benazir Bhutto ( ur, بینظیر بُھٹو; sd, بينظير ڀُٽو; Urdu ; 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 t ...

(1953–2007), former Pakistani prime minister * Denys Watkins-Pitchford (1905–1990), British children's author's pseudonym

Places

* BB postcode area, Blackburn, England *

Barbados Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a population of about 287,000 (2019 estimate). ...

(ISO and NATO 2-letter country code BB) **

.bb .bb is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Barbados. History The .bb top-level domain has been maintained by several administrators since its creation, the first of which being the University of Puerto Rico. In 1996, the Gov ...

, the top-level domain for Barbados *

Bourbon County, Kansas Bourbon County (county code BB) is a county located in Southeast Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 14,360. Its county seat and most populous city is Fort Scott. History Early history For many millennia, the Great Pla ...

(state county code) *

Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a states of Germany, state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an ar ...

, Germany (ISO 3166-2 code BB)

Science

* Branch and bound, a general algorithm for finding optimal solutions * Busy beaver class in computing theory, a type of Turing Machine * Beta blocker, medication used to manage arrhythmias and to protect the heart from a second heart attack after a first heart attack

Transportation

* BB Microlight, a Hungarian ultralight aircraft manufacturer * Bürgenstock-Bahn, a funicular railway in the Swiss canton of Nidwalden *

Toyota bB is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. It was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda and incorporated on . Toyota is one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world, producing about 10 ...

, a car sold in Japan * NZR Bb class, a New Zealand locomotive class * Balair (IATA airline code) * Seaborne Airlines (IATA airline code: BB) * Buckingham Branch Railroad (reporting mark BB) *

Battleship A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns. It dominated naval warfare in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The term ''battleship'' came into use in the late 1880s to describe a type of ...

, a U.S. Navy hull classification symbol * B (New York City Subway service), known as BB before 1967 *B-B, a classification of

AAR wheel arrangement The AAR wheel arrangement system is a method of classifying locomotive (or unit) wheel arrangements that was developed by the Association of American Railroads. Essentially a simplification of the European UIC classification, it is widely used in ...

of railway locomotives

Other uses

BB (ammunition) A BB gun is a type of air gun designed to shoot metallic spherical projectiles called BBs (not to be confused with similar-looking bearing balls), which are approximately the same size as BB-size lead birdshot used on shotguns ( in diameter ...

, ammunition for a BB gun *

Base on balls A base on balls (BB), also known as a walk, occurs in baseball when a batter receives four pitches that the umpire calls '' balls'', and is in turn awarded first base without the possibility of being called out. The base on balls is defined in Se ...

in baseball, commonly known as a walk *

BB cream BB cream is a marketing term that stands for blemish balm, blemish base, beblesh balm, and in Western markets, beauty balm. Products marketed as BB creams are generally designed to serve as a foundation, moisturizer, and sunscreen all at once. T ...

, a type of cosmetic * Bed and breakfast or B&B, a style of accommodation * BBCode, a lightweight markup language used to format posts in many message boards