# BRB

Pronunciation: US say "bee ahr BEE" /ˌbi ɑɹ ˈbi/; UK say "bee ah BEE" /ˌbiː ɑː ˈbiː/

## Phrase

1. Initialism of be right back. — Initialism of be right back.
   - Simple: Initialism of be right back. People type it in chats when they will be gone for a short time.
   - _BRB, my food delivery just showed up._
   - _Her BRB stretched into an hour, and the group moved on without her._

## Adjective

2. Away from one's device for the moment, while meaning to come back soon.
   - Simple: Away from your phone or computer for a short time, planning to come back soon.
   - _Half the players were BRB when the match timer ran out._
   - _She's been BRB for twenty minutes, so I doubt she's coming back tonight._

## Noun

3. Initialism of big red button. — Initialism of big red button.
   - Simple: Initialism of big red button. It usually means an emergency button that stops a machine right away.
   - _An operator slapped the BRB the second the conveyor jammed._
   - _The launch console keeps its BRB under a clear safety cover._
4. Initialism of buckling-restrained brace: a structural brace in a building or other structure, designed to allow it to withstand cyclical lateral loadings. — Initialism of buckling-restrained brace: a structural brace in a building or other structure, designed to allow the building to withstand cyclical lateral loadings.
   - Simple: Initialism of buckling-restrained brace. A strong steel support that helps a building stand up to earthquakes.
   - _Engineers specified a BRB at every braced bay of the hospital tower._
   - _During the retrofit, each old brace was replaced with a BRB to absorb earthquake energy._
5. Initialism of bevelled-rim bowl or bevel-rimmed bowl: a small, undecorated, mass-produced clay bowl, most commonly from the fourth millennium B.C. — Initialism of bevelled-rim bowl or bevel-rimmed bowl (“a small, undecorated, mass-produced clay bowl, most commonly from the 4th millennium B.C.”).
   - Simple: Initialism of bevelled-rim bowl or bevel-rimmed bowl. A simple clay bowl made long ago in huge numbers.
   - _The team cataloged a BRB from almost every room of the Uruk-period building._
   - _A BRB this rough was shaped quickly, probably in a simple mold._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/brb (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).