BBW
English
Etymology
Coined in 1979 by Carole Shaw with the launch of BBW Magazine, a fashion and lifestyle magazine for plus-size women.
Noun
BBW (plural BBWs)
- Initialism of big beautiful woman: used as a positive description for women who are overweight and physically attractive
- Initialism of big-boned woman: recoinage of the acronym, making fun of the stereotypical excuse for obesity
- Initialism of big bad wolf
- 2017 "Clown College", Ben 10
- Keene: run the big bad wolf.
- Tennyson: the BBW? I can't run the BBW.
- 2017 "Clown College", Ben 10
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