Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Sports center back
  • abbreviation citizens band
  • abbreviation Football cornerback

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • initialism citizens' band
  • initialism Confined to barracks (a punishment in the army).
  • initialism Chemical and Biological
  • initialism Canada Cape Breton

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  • CB is known to all for his generosity, style and humor.

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  • If they do, having an incoming link to this post from a high-authority, highly-relevant site like CB is going to help me place better.

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  • On another note, CB is or was a Marine one - or two-star in the reserves.

    The Rifleman's Badge of Honor 2008

  • There was, quite simply, not a single well-reasoned argument in CB's entire article.

    Chris Buckley gets Fatwahed 2008

  • The arrest-plagued Bengals needed an Eagle Scout, and they got a figurative one in CB Leon Hall, a widely projected top-10 pick who was available at No. 18.

    Grading the draft: Who earned the highest marks? 2007

  • CB is acting in a rule bound fashion, consistent with the duty of judges within our system, while CEO is abusing his power as a judge by engaging in a manipulative (insincere) interpretation of the law to advance a desired political end.

    Balkinization 2006

  • First, notwithstanding having a legally bound conscious orientation, CB is subconsciously influenced by and sees the law through background personal views; the legal interpretations of CB are thus not completely free of political influences in this subconscious sense.

    Balkinization 2006

  • CB is acting in a rule bound fashion, consistent with the duty of judges within our system, while CEO is abusing his power as a judge by engaging in a manipulative (insincere) interpretation of the law to advance a desired political end.

    Balkinization 2006

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