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PBP

PBP is the initialism of penicillin-binding protein.

PBP is the initialism of personal basis profile.

PBP is the initialism of picture-by-picture.

PBP is the initialism of play-by-play.

PBP is the initialism of Paris–Brest–Paris.

PBP is the initialism of People Before Profit.

Meaning of play-by-play

Noun

play-by-play (plural play-by-plays)

  1. (US) A detailed description or analysis of sporting events as they occur in succession, one play at a time.
    • So I collected a cross section of play-by-plays, definitely not as many as I'd like to collect but enough to feel pretty comfortable with what I was seeing.2004, Dean Oliver, Basketball on Paper: Rules and Tools for Performance Analysis

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Forms of PBP

pluralPBPs

Questions about PBP

What is PBP the initialism of?
PBP is the initialism of penicillin-binding protein.

Words near PBP in the dictionary

  1. PBN
  2. PBNs
  3. PBO
  4. PBOC
  5. PBOs
  6. PBP
  7. PBPD
  8. PBPs
  9. PBR
  10. PBr.
  11. PBRs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: PBP (page history and authors); play-by-play (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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