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inb4

inb4 conjunction: preemptively responding to a predicted circumstance or response.

Conjunction

inb4

  1. (Internet) Preemptively responding to a predicted circumstance or response.
    • inb4 he loses again
    Synonyms:
    before

Synonyms of inb4

Forms of inb4

alternative formin before

Origin of inb4

From in before. It originated on 4chan: on threads that users thought would be locked, they would comment "in before the lock", or "I got a comment in before the thread locked." Before then got abbreviated independently into B4 or b4.

Questions about inb4

What does inb4 mean?
Inb4 means preemptively responding to a predicted circumstance or response.
What part of speech is inb4?
Inb4 is a conjunction.

Words near inb4 in the dictionary

  1. inaw
  2. inawe
  3. inaws
  4. Inayawan
  5. Inazawa
  6. inb4
  7. Inba
  8. inbalance
  9. inbalanced
  10. inbalances
  11. inband

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