BBC

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Noun — The British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly funded national broadcaster of the United Kingdom, which runs television channels, radio stations and a news website.

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How to use BBC

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BBC News BBC One the BBC website

The sexual sense is vulgar and unsuitable for work or formal writing. The broadcaster sense is entirely neutral and always capitalised.

Etymology

An initialism. In the broadcasting sense it stands for British Broadcasting Corporation; in the slang sense it stands for big black cock.

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Frequently asked questions

What does BBC stand for?

It stands for British Broadcasting Corporation when talking about media, and for big black cock when used as sexual slang. The two are unrelated abbreviations that happen to share the same three letters.

What is the difference between BBC and bcc in email?

The email feature is bcc, short for blind carbon copy, which hides recipients' addresses from one another. People often mistype it as BBC, but BBC is not an email term.

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