Beebn.
/biːb/ colloquial.
= B.B.C. n. Frequently with the.
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Beeb1967
1967 M. Laski in Words: Wai-te-ata Stud. in Lit. (1974) No. 4. 95 Beeb. My daughter, who works in the B.B.C., always calls it so.
1968 Evening News 13 Sept. 10/1 He gives the impression he doesn't worry about anything: least of all ‘Beeb’, as he calls the BBC.
1971 Guardian 26 Mar. 15/1 Anything the Beeb does..which can be called political means somebody can get ‘the right of reply’.
1971 It 2 June 19/3 I doubt that this album will receive any airplay 'cos the lyrics might offend the grey minds up at the beeb.
1976 Star (Sheffield) 29 Oct. 2/5 BBC2..9.30 A world of music: Surely worth a plum Beeb-1 spot as it's John Denver and Friends.
1980 B. W. Aldiss Life in West xii. 254 In the sixties,..it was fashionable for everyone to be radical,..whether they worked for Apple or the Beeb.
1985 Times 11 Feb. 15/5 The licence fee the ‘Beeb’ is asking for is a shade less than the 18p a day for a popular newspaper.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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n.1967- to throw out one's eyes
- to throw over
- to throw over the bar
- to throw over the perch
- to throw overboard
- to throw papers
- to throw reins on
- to throw round
- to throw shade
- to throw sidelight on
- to throw someone a curveball
- to throw someone a fall
- to throw someone off guard
- to throw someone on the slagheap
- to throw someone out on etc ass
- to throw someone out on her ass
- to throw someone out on his ass
- to throw something back in a person's face
- to throw something in one's dish
- to throw something on the slagheap
- to throw the baby out with the bath
- to throw the baby out with the bathwater
- to throw the bones
- to throw the book at a person
- to throw the bridle in a person's neck