b4

Preposition

1. Abbreviation of before.

   Internet slang, text messaging

   • gotta be back b4 joey gets here[…]let’s get 2gether again b4 julian comes, ok? - 2004, Ellen Wittlinger, Heart on My Sleeve, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, pages 77 and 167
   • Was in Orphas room 2nite readin her diary again. 4got sum of it from b4. - 2004, Paul Howard, PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids, The O’Brien Press, published 2012
   • Then, in a staggering display of empathy for the deceased lacking, this friend segues to the narcissist nub of the matter: "Omg wat if yu get arrested b4 yur bdai." - 2009 March 10, Rosie DiManno, “Murder reduced to infantile online postings”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2009
   • imagine if i die b4 i figure it out! - 2009, Tara Chace, transl., Are U 4 Real?, Dial Books, translation of original by Sara Kadefors
   • Hope 2 run into u 2day b4 I talk 2 Callie. - 2010, Jessica Burkhart, Elite Ambition, Aladdin M!X, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division
   • All drinks £2.50 b4 11pm. - 2011, Geraldine Bloustien, Margaret Peters, Youth, Music and Creative Cultures: Playing for Life, Palgrave Macmillan, page 215
   • it also seems a lil hippo-criticl gvn youv been ritin a blog abt her and yer life as a gr8t artst & a muther snc b4 she wuz born.[…]i wuz just reedn wut i rote 2 u b4.[…]thar was 1 lil grrl w/curli brown hair like mine b4 i got it str8nd at sefora.[…]moms used to babysit wen she wuz my age but that wuz a long time ago b4 9-11[…]hes gonna cum in just 3 hours b4 moms gets up & im gonna meet him down the street so that she duznt heer his car. - 2014, Elisabeth Sheffield, Helen Keller Really Lived, The University of Alabama Press, pages 203–209
   • Yesterday. No, day b4. - 2018, Douglas Rees, Elektra’s Adventures in Tragedy, Running Press Teens, Perseus Books
   • wen they r evacuating b4 the 14th - 2019, Brett Wirebaugh, Half-Tail Rising, Resource Publications, Wipf and Stock Publishers, page 141

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