User Contributed Dictionary
CB
- citizens' band
- Chemical and Biological
Extensive Definition
CB (or derivative) may refer to:
Architectural/engineering
- Block coefficient (Cb), determining fullness of ship's hull
- Chrysler Building, a skyscraper in New York City, New York
- Concrete Block, also cinder block, clinker block, or foundation block [US], Concrete Masonry Unit (CMU) [US], breeze block [UK]
Business
- Carte Bancaire, a bank card brand
- Cell Broadcast in GSM networks
- Christianssands Bryggeri, a Norwegian brewery
Geo-political
- Cambodia, FIPS Pub 10-4 country code and obsolete NATO digram
- Cambridge, British post code for eastern England served by the Cambridge postal sorting office
- Children's Bureau, a federal agency within the Administration For Children and Families of the United States Department of Health and Human Services
- Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program, a scholarship for youth exchange between the United States and Germany
- ScotAirways, IATA airport code
Military
- Companion in The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, a title conferred by the British and Commonwealth orders and decorations
- "Confined to Barracks", an acronym in use by various armed forces
- Construction Battalion, a United States Navy unit responsible for constructing airstrips and roadways
- Large Cruiser, retired US Navy hull classification symbol
Popular culture
- Citizens' band radio, a system of short-distance radio communications
- Coffee-bitch, used in many offices as an irreverent form of the term gofer
- Cold beer, an abbreviation commonly used by fraternity members in the Southeastern United States
- Corned beef, a cut of beef cured or pickled in a seasoned brine
- Cowboy Bebop, an anime and manga popular in Japan and the United States
- Chris Brown (singer), an R&B artist
- Crash Bandicoot, a series of video games and its eponymous main character
- Cara-Beth Burnside, a pioneer of women's professional skateboarding and snowboarding
- Chastity belt, a locking item of clothing designed to prevent sexual intercourse
- Care Bears, a set of characters appearing on greeting cards and in other media
Science/medical
- Cannabinoids, a group of substances that bind to animal cannabinoid receptors
- Columbium, an obsolete abbreviation (now known as niobium)
- Critical bands, the frequency bandwidths of human auditory filters
- Cumulonimbus cloud, a type of cloud that is tall, dense, and involved in thunderstorms and other intense weather
Sports
- Cleveland Browns, a team in the National Football League
- Chris Benoit, a professional wrestler
- Centre-back, a defensive position in association football
- Cornerback, a position in American football
Technology
- Closed Beta, a software development stage or testing process
- C Beautifier : Computer language tool
CB in Czech: CB
CB in German: CB
CB in Esperanto: Cb
CB in French: CB
CB in Korean: CB
CB in Italian: CB
CB in Japanese: CB
CB in Norwegian: CB
CB in Polish: CB
CB in Kölsch: CB (Watt ėßß datt?)
CB in Finnish: Cb