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A&B

A&B is the initialism of assault and battery.

Meaning of assault and battery

Noun

assault and battery (countable and uncountable, plural assaults and batteries)

  1. (idiomatic) The combination of two violent crimes: assault (the threat of violence) and battery (physical violence). This legal distinction exists only in jurisdictions that distinguish assault as threatened violence rather than actual violence.

Questions about A&B

What is A&B the initialism of?
A&B is the initialism of assault and battery.

Words near A&B in the dictionary

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  3. a year and a day
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  6. A&B
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  9. A&O
  10. A&O assessment
  11. A&P

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Adapted from Wiktionary: A&B (page history and authors); assault and battery (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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