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B&B

B&B is the initialism of bed and breakfast.

Meaning of bed and breakfast

Noun (1)

bed and breakfast (plural bed and breakfasts)

  1. A private home, guesthouse, small hotel etc. where guests are provided overnight accommodations and served breakfast but usually no other meals.

Noun (2)

bed and breakfast (plural bed and breakfasts)

  1. A score of 26, made up of a score of 20, 1 and 5 in any order.
    • The language of darts is a combination of hybrid Cockney slang, metaphor and phrases that “stuck” for no apparent reason except they sounded good. […] Bed ’n’ breakfast—the number 26 when scored by hitting a 20, 5, and 1; comes from the price of a bed and breakfast in Olde England which was 2/6d...[1978 April, Dan Wheeler, Tom Jansing, “Mugs away!”, in All Hands, page 11
    Synonyms:
    B&B
  2. The number 26.
    • Bingo calls that might leave the budding old-timer generally baffled include:[…] 26 ― Bed and breakfast. Traditionally it would cost two and six – two shillings and six pence. Now its £180 a night but you get biscuits.[2008, Marcus Waring, The Deranged Book for Old Timers, page 68

Forms of B&B

pluralB&Bs

Words formed from B&B

Questions about B&B

What is B&B the initialism of?
B&B is the initialism of bed and breakfast.

Words near B&B in the dictionary

  1. b!tches
  2. b!tching
  3. B"H
  4. b"r
  5. b&
  6. B&B
  7. B&Bs
  8. B&D
  9. B&E
  10. B&H
  11. B&L

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: B&B (page history and authors); bed and breakfast (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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