BB

BB, Bb (or similar) may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

• BB, the abbreviation for the index of one of three catalogues of musical works by Béla Bartók
• BB (Transformers), a character in the franchise
• Les B.B., a Canadian band from Quebec
• 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 Newspeak, the language spoken in Orwell's novel
• Big Brother (TV series)

Businesses and organisations

• BB 2000 Ltd, publisher of British Birds
• BB Bloggingsbooks, an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing
• BB Microlight, a Hungarian ultralight aircraft manufacturer
• Balair (IATA airline code)
• Banco do Brasil S.A., largest Brazilian and Latin American bank by assets
• Bavarian Peasants' League or BB, a former German political party
• Best Buy, an electronic store, that some call BB or Best B.
• BlackBerry Limited, a Canadian software and telecommunications company
• Boys' Brigade, an international non-denominational Christian youth organization
• Brooks Brothers, an American clothier
• Seaborne Airlines (IATA airline code)

People

• Brigitte Bardot, French actress
• Benazir Bhutto, former Pakistani prime minister
• Cathy Dingman, professional wrestler
• B.B. King, blues musician
• Denys Watkins-Pitchford, illustrator and author

Places

• BB postcode area, UK, a group of postal districts around Blackburn in England
• Barbados (ISO and NATO 2-letter country code BB)
  • .bb, the top-level domain for Barbados
• Big Ben, a clock tower at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London
• Bourbon County, Kansas (state county code)
• Brandenburg, Germany (ISO 3166-2 code BB)

Science

• Big Bang, theory of the beginning of the universe
• Branch and bound, a general algorithm for finding optimal solutions
• Busy Beaver class in computing theory, a type of Turing Machine

Transportation

• BB Microlight, a Hungarian ultralight aircraft manufacturer
• Bürgenstock-Bahn, a funicular railway in the Swiss canton of Nidwalden
• Toyota bB, a car sold in Japan
• NZR Bb class, a New Zealand locomotive class
• Balair (IATA airline code)
• Seaborne Airlines (IATA airline code)
• Buckingham Branch Railroad (reporting mark BB)
• Battleship, 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 of railway locomotives

Other uses

• BB (ammunition), ammunition for a BB gun
• Base on balls in baseball, commonly known as a walk
• BB cream, a type of cosmetic
• Bed and breakfast or B&B, a style of accommodation

See also

• B-flat minor or B♭ minor, a musical key
• B-flat (disambiguation)
• B&B (disambiguation)
• Back to Back (disambiguation)
• Bibi