BBW

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English

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Etymology

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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

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BBW (countable and uncountable, plural BBWs)

  1. (sexuality) Initialism of big beautiful woman: used as a positive description for women who are (sometimes slightly) overweight and physically attractive
    1. (body morphology) Initialism of big-boned woman: recoinage of the acronym, making fun of the typical term for overweight women.
  2. Initialism of Big Bad Wolf
  3. (automotive) Initialism of brake-by-wire.

Derived terms

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  • (big beautiful/boned women): SSBBW

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