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BM

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See also: .bm, Bm, bm, bm., and bm-

Translingual

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BM

  1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Bermuda.
    Synonym: BMU (alpha-3)

English

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Noun

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BM (countable and uncountable, plural BMs)

  1. (military, astronautics) Initialism of ballistic missile.
  2. (US, slang) Initialism of baby mama.
    • 2019 January 28, “Fetty Wap's Baby Mama Arrested After Fight for Telling Cop ... 'Suck My F***ing D***!!!'”, in TMZ[1]:
      We broke the story ... the melee was caught on video, and appears to show a group of people attacking Fetty [Wap]'s BM and her friends.
  3. (video games) Initialism of bad manners.
    • 2014, Doug Hendrie, AmalgaNations: How Globalisation Is Good:
      Fans know IdrA for his BM — Bad Manners.
  4. (uncountable, broadcasting) Initialism of beautiful music.
    • 1983, Television/Radio Age, volume 30, page 72:
      Life support for BM formats
      Robert M. Lowery acknowledges that beautiful music formats are in the decline []
    • 1988, Donald F. Harvey, Strategic management and business policy, page 300:
      Practically every dentist or doctor's office carries a BM station.
  5. (in personal ads) Initialism of black male.
    Coordinate terms: BF, WM
  6. Initialism of black metal.
    • 2000, NivendE, “black doom hybrids”, in alt.music.black-metal (Usenet):
      They used to play Burzumesque BM, but moved on to a Doomy sound.
  7. Initialism of body modification.
  8. (Canada, US, euphemistic) Initialism of bowel movement.
    • 1911, Journal of the National Medical Association:
      Frequent involuntary urination. Frequent desire for B.M. but no result.
    • 2017, Sheila A. Sorrentino, Leighann N. Remmert, Mosby’s Textbook for Nursing Assistants, 9th edition, St. Louis, Missouri: Elsevier, →ISBN, page 424:
      Mr. Jansen stated that he had a medium-sized, soft, formed, brown BM after breakfast today.
  9. Abbreviation of Bachelor of Medicine.
  10. (US) Abbreviation of Bachelor of Music.

Proper noun

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BM

  1. (Malaysia) Initialism of bahasa Melayu and bahasa Malaysia.
    • 2017 July 3, “‘Medical grads with O Level need only take SPM BM’”, in The Star[2], →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 July 2017:
      Bahasa Melayu is the national language and the official language of the Federation, said Dr Noor Hisham. Therefore, one of the entry requirements  [] is a pass in BM subject at SPM level or equivalent.
    • 2018 July 14, Ibrahim Isa, quoting Maszlee Malik, “Education Ministry proposes weekly BM and English days”, in The New Straits Times[3], →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 January 2019:
       [] on “National Language Day”, Bahasa Malaysia will be used  [] Thursday will be made the day to use BM while Monday or Tuesday for English.
    • 2018 December 3, Natasha Joibi, quoting Kadir Jasin, “Kadir Jasin: Language proficiency important, Malay children's command of BM weak”, in The Star[4], →OCLC, archived from the original on 6 December 2018:
      The assumption that Malay children are already proficient in Bahasa Melayu (BM) upon entering Year One is incorrect  [] But while their command of English is strong, their BM is weak.
  2. Abbreviation of British Museum.

Verb

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BM (third-person singular simple present BMs, present participle BMing, simple past and past participle BMed)

  1. (euphemistic) To have a bowel movement.
  2. (video games) To have bad manners.

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Etymology

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Clipping of BMW.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /be.ɛm/
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Noun

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BM f (plural BM)

  1. Short for BMW (automobile)

Malay

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Proper noun

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BM

  1. Initialism of bahasa Melayu and bahasa Malaysia.
    kelas BMMalay/Malaysian class
    buku BMMalay/Malaysian book

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Spanish

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Proper noun

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BM m

  1. Initialism of Banco Mundial (World Bank).

Turkish

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BM

  1. Initialism of Birleşmiş Milletler. UN (United Nations)