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OBX

OBX is the abbreviation of Outer Banks.

Meaning of Outer Banks

Proper noun

Outer Banks

  1. A long string of narrow barrier islands and spits off the coast of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, on the east coast of the United States.
    • Even the Outer Banks' best known landmark, the old Cape Hatteras Light with its distinctive black and white spirals, almost collapsed into the sea a few years back[…]1987 October, Charles E. Cobb, Jr., “North Carolina's Outer Banks”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 512
    Synonyms:
    OBX

Questions about OBX

What is OBX the abbreviation of?
OBX is the abbreviation of Outer Banks.

Words near OBX in the dictionary

  1. obvolving
  2. obvs
  3. obvy
  4. obvz
  5. Obwalden
  6. OBX
  7. oby
  8. obzocky
  9. Obârșia
  10. oc
  11. OC gas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: OBX (page history and authors); Outer Banks (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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