FBI

Fixed-bit index.

Proper noun

  1. Initialism of Federal Bureau of Investigation.
    • For a while, nearly every girl at school on whom I had a crush had a father in the FBI. - 2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 36:
    • The FBI began publishing national quarterly crime reports last year, but has not done so for the first two quarters of 2021, stating that they require at least 60% of agencies to submit NIBRS data in order to publish...

    Related: F.B.I.

  2. Federation of British Industry (1916–1965), forerunner of CBI (Confederation of British Industry).
  3. fire behaviour index

Derived

CBI GBI

Noun

  1. Fixed-bit index.
  2. Female body inspector.
    • Groups of Heterosexuals gather in Daytona Beach to tan their normally pale skin, eat fried shrimp, and buy novelty T-shirts that say things like Don't talk to me until I've had my coffee! and FBI: Female Body Inspector....