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BnB

BnB 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 BnB

pluralBnBs
alternative formB&B
alternative formB & B
alternative formB and B

Questions about BnB

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

Words near BnB in the dictionary

  1. BN(O)
  2. BN(O)s
  3. bn.
  4. BNA
  5. BNAs
  6. BnB
  7. BnBs
  8. BNC
  9. BNC connector
  10. BNC connectors
  11. BNCs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: BnB (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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