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LBD

LBD is the initialism of little black dress.

LBD is the initialism of Lewy body dementia.

Meaning of little black dress

Noun

little black dress (plural little black dresses)

  1. A simply cut and often quite short evening or cocktail dress.
    • When dressing up for a night out, let's not forget the sex appeal, allure, and slenderizing effect of ultrasheer black hosiery under that little black dress.2012, Rebecca Apsan, Lessons in Lingerie: Finding Your Perfect Shade of Seduction
    Synonyms:
    LBD
  2. (figuratively) Something simple, versatile, and elegant; something that pairs well with many other things.
    • The F-bomb is the little black dress of vulgarity. Noun, verb, participle, verbal noun — it goes with everything.2013 April 24, Alexandra Petri, “The peculiar brilliance of that sorority e-mail”, in The Washington Post
    Synonyms:
    LBD
  3. (slang) A character who is shipped with many other characters.
    • I've seen Snape/Loki. Little Black Dresses, both of them. They'll go with anybody.2018 September 23, Marion Beet (@Knitronomicon), Twitter
    Synonyms:
    fandom bicycle

Forms of LBD

pluralLBDs

Questions about LBD

What is LBD the initialism of?
LBD is the initialism of little black dress.

Words near LBD in the dictionary

  1. LBAs
  2. LBBB
  3. LBBBs
  4. LBC
  5. LBCs
  6. LBD
  7. LBDs
  8. lbf
  9. LBFM
  10. LBFMs
  11. LBFTS

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Adapted from Wiktionary: LBD (page history and authors); little black dress (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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