bs
bs is the plural of b.
bs is the abbreviation of bullshit.
Meaning of b
Letter
Meaning of bullshit
Noun
bullshit (uncountable)
- Feces produced by a bull.
- Near-synonyms: cowshit, cowpie
- Statements that are false or exaggerated to impress or cheat the listener.
- Don't pay any attention to him. He talks a lot of bullshit.
- Synonyms:
- BS, horseshit, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls
- Statements that are transparently or offensively false.
- That's total bullshit! I called your office and they said that you didn't come in!
- Synonyms:
- BS, horseshit, falsedom, falsehood, falsity, falseness, terminological inexactitude, untruth, disinformation, fabrication
- Statements that are intentionally misleading, whether true or not.
- Statements made without regard for their truth value.
- I focus on unclarifiable unclarity in particular in preparation for a further inquiry into bullshit that addresses the question why so much of that particular kind of bullshit is produced in France. This kind of academic bullshit […] comes close to being celebrated for its very unclarity by some of...2002, G.A. Cohen, “Deeper into bullshit”, in Sarah Buss, Lee Overton, editors, Contours of Agency: Essays on Themes from Harry Frankfurt, page 333
- Synonyms:
- BS, horseshit, nonsense, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash
- Synonym of shit (any stuff, especially when viewed negatively or with collegial vulgarity).
- These rules cover how to do your laundry, how to fold your shirts, how to shine your shoes... You know, all that bullshit.
- Synonyms:
- shit
Proper noun capitalized: BS
BS
- Abbreviation of Bridgestone, a tire company.
- Abbreviation of Bengali Sambat.
Noun (1) capitalized: BS
BS (countable and uncountable, plural BSs)
- Abbreviation of Bachelor of Science.
- And there was a time when women were told to go to college not for a B.A. or a B.S. but for an “MRS. Degree,” with the expectation of walking right off the graduation stage and down the aisle.2020 May 15, Amisha Padnani, “Is Marriage a Prize?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 May 2020
- Synonyms:
- BSc
- Abbreviation of Bachelor of Surgery.
- Abbreviation of blown saves.
- Abbreviation of balance sheet.
- Abbreviation of bullshit.
- My gut reaction was to lay into him for being a snotnosed little creep doing no more than spouting his rich daddy's BS and asking him where he got off making comments like that to a customer.2006 October 17, Gasonfires, “Neocon Divisiveness Has Worked - On Me! Oh Damn!”, in Daily Kos, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2025
- Still, he said, “I’m so tired of all this political correctness. It’s such B.S.”2021 July 17, Jacob Bernstein, “Keith McNally Stirs the Pot”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2021
- Initialism of Bartter syndrome.
Verb capitalized: BS
BS (third-person singular simple present BSes, present participle BSing, simple past and past participle BSed)
- Abbreviation of bullshit.
- Researchers embarked on a novel study intent on measuring what a Princeton philosophy professor contends is one of the most salient features of our culture — the ability to play the expert without being one. / Or, as the social scientists put it, to BS.2019 April 26, Christopher Ingraham, “Rich guys are most likely to have no idea what they’re talking about, study suggests”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2019
Noun (2) capitalized: Bs
Bs (uncountable)
- Abbreviation of benzenesulphonyl.
Noun (3) capitalized: Bs
Bs
- plural of B
Synonyms of bs
Forms of bs
| Proper noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | B.S. |
| alternative form | B. S. |
| Noun | |
| plural | BSs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | BSes |
| present participle | BSing |
| past participle | BSed |
| past | BSed |
Phrases with bs
Questions about bs
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- Bs is the plural of b.
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- Bs can be a proper noun, a noun or a verb.
Words near bs in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bs (page history and authors); BS (page history and authors); Bs (page history and authors); b (page history and authors); bullshit (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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