BBW
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English
Etymology
Abbreviation.
- (big beautiful woman): Coined by Carole Shaw in 1979 in the first sense with the launch of BBW Magazine, a fashion and lifestyle magazine for plus-size women.
Noun
BBW (countable and uncountable, plural BBWs)
- (sexuality) Initialism of big beautiful woman: used as a positive description for women who are (sometimes slightly) overweight and physically attractive
- (body morphology) Initialism of big-boned woman: recoinage of the acronym, making fun of the typical term for overweight women.
- Initialism of Big Bad Wolf
- (automotive) Initialism of brake-by-wire.
Derived terms
- (big beautiful/boned women): SSBBW
Further reading
Big Beautiful Woman on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - brake-by-wire on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
