or status used as an embodiment of one's superiority over others. PC USER Magazine January 2008 edition onwards. Various Internet chatrooms and <span class="searchmatch">BBSes</span>....
Initialism of be back soon. bbs, b.b.s. BBS (countable and uncountable, plural <span class="searchmatch">BBSes</span> or BBSs) (telecommunications, Internet) Initialism of bulletin board system...
Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, to turn”). The Internet verb sense originated on <span class="searchmatch">BBSes</span> of the 1980s, probably from Monty Python's The Fish-Slapping Dance (1972)...