bbs
5 synonyms and 0 antonyms for bbs, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Abbreviation — Be back soon; typed in chat, gaming and messaging to say you are stepping away for a short while.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Synonyms by Meaning
1. abbreviation informal
Be back soon; typed in chat, gaming and messaging to say you are stepping away for a short while.
“bbs, someone's at the door.”
2. noun
A bulletin board system: a computer running software that users dialled into by modem to read messages, swap files and play text games, widely used before the World Wide Web.
“He ran a two-line BBS out of his bedroom in 1992.”
How to Use Bbs
The word patterns that sound natural to a native speaker.
Informal in chat. In writing about computing history, BBS is capitalised and takes 'a' or 'the'.
Etymology
An initialism of be back soon; the computing sense is an initialism of bulletin board system.
Full origin of bbs →Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between bbs and brb?
Both say you are leaving briefly. BRB, be right back, implies a very short absence of a minute or two. BBS, be back soon, is vaguer and usually means a somewhat longer gap. BBL, be back later, is longer still.
What was a BBS in computing?
It was a computer you dialled directly with a modem, before the web existed, to post on message boards, download files and play text-based games. Most were run by hobbyists, handled only one or a few callers at a time, and served a local phone area.