ibu
/ˈaɪ.bjuː/
ibu noun: ibuprofen.
Noun (1)
ibu (countable and uncountable, plural ibus)
Noun (2) capitalized: IBU
IBU (plural IBUs)
- Initialism of International Bitterness Unit: a measure of the bitterness of beer.
- On a tour of the cavernous and gleaming BrewDog plant in Ellon, just north of Aberdeen, Dickie happily batted around terminology – IBU, ABV, pH, haze, present gravity, headspace oxygen – with PhD-level microbiologists working in the lab.2016 March 24, Jon Henley, “The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Forms of ibu
| plural | ibus |
|---|---|
| plural | IBUs |
Origin of ibu
Clipping of ibuprofen.
Questions about ibu
- What does ibu mean?
- Ibu means ibuprofen.
- What part of speech is ibu?
- Ibu is a noun.
- How do you pronounce ibu?
- Ibu is pronounced /ˈaɪ.bjuː/.
- What is the plural of ibu?
- The plural of ibu is ibus.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ibu (page history and authors); IBU (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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