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bk

bk is the abbreviation of book.

bk is the abbreviation of black.

bk is the initialism of bad kid.

Meaning of book

Noun

book (plural books)

  1. A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
    • Knowing I lou'd my bookes, he furniſhd me / From mine owne Library, with volumes, that / I prize aboue my Dukedome.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
  2. A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
    • I have three copies of his first book.
  3. A major division of a long work.
    • Genesis is the first book of the Bible.
    Synonyms:
    tome, volume
  4. A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
    • I'm running a book on who is going to win the race.
  5. (informal) A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
  6. A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
    • a book of stamps
    Synonyms:
    booklet

See all 32 meanings of book

Meaning of black

Noun

black (countable and uncountable, plural blacks)

  1. The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
    • Black is the badge of hell, / The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    Synonyms:
    blackness
    Antonyms:
    whiteness
  2. A black dye or pigment.
    Antonyms:
    white
  3. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
  4. (in plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
    • Groans, and convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible.1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Death”, in Essays
  5. (capitalized, countable, offensive, often, sometimes) A member or descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
    • "How! They surely cannot pretend that the black is an Englishman?" "There are all kinds of Englishmen, black and white, when seamen grow scarce. […]"1863, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter XXIV, in Miles Wallingford
    Synonyms:
    BIPOC, BME, colored, colored person, minority, nonwhite, person of color
  6. (informal, uncountable) Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
    • black don't crack

See all 49 meanings of black

Proper noun capitalized: BK

BK

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Burger King: a fast-food restaurant chain.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism, Crip slang) Initialism of Blood-killer.

Noun capitalized: BK

BK (plural BKs)

  1. In multiworld randomizers, when progress is blocked in one game by exhausting all checks available, awaiting progress to be done in a different game.

Verb capitalized: BK

BK (third-person singular simple present BKs, present participle BKing, simple past and past participle BKed)

  1. In multiworld randomizers, to block progress in one game by exhausting all checks available, then awaiting progress to be done in a different game.

Forms of bk

Noun
pluralbks
pluralBKs
Verb
third-person singular presentBKs
present participleBKing
past participleBKed
pastBKed

Phrases with bk

Questions about bk

What does bk mean?
Bk means in multiworld randomizers, when progress is blocked in one game by exhausting all checks available, awaiting progress to be done in a different game.
What is bk the abbreviation of?
Bk is the abbreviation of book.
What part of speech is bk?
Bk can be a proper noun, a noun or a verb.

Words near bk in the dictionary

  1. Björkism
  2. Björkö
  3. Björnstad syndrome
  4. Bjørgo
  5. Bjørnfjell
  6. bk
  7. BK polyomavirus
  8. BK polyomaviruses
  9. BK virus
  10. BK viruses
  11. bk.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bk (page history and authors); BK (page history and authors); book (page history and authors); black (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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