SB

SB

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the Solomon Islands.

   Synonym: SLB (alpha-3)

Initialisms.

SB

1. Initialism of Special Branch.
   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 181:

     The SB infiltrated one of their men into our organisation.

2. (linguistics) Initialism of Standard Babylonian.
3. Initialism of West Sumatra: a province of Indonesia.

SB (countable and uncountable, plural SBs)

1. (medicine) Initialism of stretcher bearer.
2. (sports) Initialism of season best (this season's personal best).
3. (baseball) Abbreviation of stolen base; The statistic reporting the number of stolen bases.
4. (electronics, communication) Sideband.
5. Abbreviation of sexbot.
6. (law, politics, often followed by a number) Initialism of senate bill (“a bill proposed in or passed by a senate”) (Compare HB.)

   SB5

   • 2024 December 25, Devin Trubey, “California to remove restrictions on ADUs, add enforcement if cities don't comply with housing laws”, in ABC10‎^[1]:

     SB 1211 was signed into law to streamline the process and takes effect in January. Currently you can have no more than two ADUs on a property, but the new law increases the limit to eight.

   • 2025 July 17, “ADC Warns: California’s SB 771 is Censorship Disguised as Civil Rights”, in American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee‎^[2]:

     “Exposing companies to such extreme civil penalties would likely force the overpolicing of lawful expression, chill free speech, and distort the online environment in ways that harms all users,” said ADC National Executive Director, Abed Ayoub. “Beyond moral and political concerns, SB 771 also raises serious constitutional issues.”

7. (law, politics) Initialism of state bill.
8. (oenology, wine) Initialism of Sauvignon blanc.
9. (nautical, maritime) Initialism of sailing barge.

   Alternative forms: S.B., S. B.

   Coordinate terms: (sailing) SV, SY

   Coordinate term: (barge) MB

10. (nautical, maritime) Initialism of steam barge.

    Alternative forms: S.B., S. B.

    Coordinate terms: (steam) SS, SL, PS, TS

    Coordinate term: (barge) MB

11. (nautical, maritime) Initialism of steamboat.

    Alternative forms: S.B., S. B.

    Coordinate terms: (steam) SS, SL, PS, TS

    Coordinate term: (boat) MB

SB (not comparable)

1. Initialism of southbound.

   Coordinate terms: NB, EB, WB

SB (not comparable)

1. Initialism of southbound.

   Coordinate terms: NB, EB, WB

SB (third-person singular simple present SBs, present participle SBing, simple past and past participle SBed or SB'd)

1. (transitive, Internet slang) To soft-block.

   Alternative form: sb

   Coordinate term: HB (“hard-block”)

   • 2021 September 1, Jekyll (@rottingca9s), Twitter‎^[3]:

     i have a handful of moots that if they sb'd or hb'd me id genuinely be upset this app has ruined me huh

• B&S, B's, B. S., B.S., BS, BS., Bs, B−'s, B♭s, B♯s, b's, b******s, bs

SB f (genitive SB, plural SBen)

1. acronym of Selbstbedienung

SB

1. abbreviation of Sibiu: a county of Romania

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔesbi/ [ˈʔɛs.bɪ]
• Rhymes: -esbi

SB

1. initialism of Sangguniang Bayan

• SK

SB

1. initialism of Batsilyer sa Siyensiya BS; BSc

• “SB”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018