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B and B

B and 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 and B

pluralB and Bs
alternative formB&B
alternative formBnB
alternative formB & B

Questions about B and B

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

Words near B and B in the dictionary

  1. A♯s
  2. b
  3. B & B
  4. B & Bs
  5. B & D
  6. B and B
  7. B and Bs
  8. B and D
  9. B and E
  10. B batteries
  11. B battery

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Adapted from Wiktionary: B and 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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