BBW

See also: bbw

English

Etymology

Abbreviation.

  • (big beautiful woman): Coined by Carole Shaw in 1979 in the first sense with the launch of BBW Magazine, a fashion and lifestyle magazine for plus-size women.

Noun

BBW (countable and uncountable, plural BBWs)

  1. (sexuality) Initialism of big beautiful woman, used as a positive description for women who are (sometimes slightly) overweight and physically attractive.
    • 2025 February 11, Patrick Reilly, “500-pound rapper suing Lyft over ride denial asks for couch over chair at ‘Breakfast Club’ interview: ‘This is accommodation’”, in New York Post‎[1]:
      Dank Demoss, who’s described herself as “obese” and a BBW — “big beautiful woman” — walked into the New York City studio and sat down in a wheeled office chair before the interview started and she immediately looked uncomfortable and let the crew know it.
    1. (body morphology) Initialism of big-boned woman, recoinage of the acronym, making fun of the typical term for overweight women.
  2. Initialism of Big Bad Wolf.
  3. (automotive) Initialism of brake-by-wire.

Derived terms

  • (big beautiful/boned women): SSBBW

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