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"text": "Coordinate term: SB (“soft-block”)"
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"ref": "2021 September 1, Jekyll (@rottingca9s), Twitter",
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"To hard-block."
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"Initialism of homebirth."
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"(health) Initialism of homebirth."
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"(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of happy birthday."
],
"tags": [
"Internet",
"abbreviation",
"alt-of"
]
}
],
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"audio": "En-au-HB.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/33/En-au-HB.ogg/En-au-HB.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/En-au-HB.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "HB"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English phrases",
"English proper nouns",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"English words without vowels"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "HBs",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "HBing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "HBed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "HBed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "HB'd",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "HB'd",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"past2": "HB'd"
},
"expansion": "HB (third-person singular simple present HBs, present participle HBing, simple past and past participle HBed or HB'd)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English internet slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "Coordinate term: SB (“soft-block”)"
},
{
"text": "Alternative form: hb"
},
{
"ref": "2021 September 1, Jekyll (@rottingca9s), Twitter",
"text": "i have a handful of moots that if they sb'd or hb'd me id genuinely be upset this app has ruined me huh",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To hard-block."
],
"links": [
[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
[
"slang",
"slang"
],
[
"hard-block",
"hard-block"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, Internet slang) To hard-block."
],
"tags": [
"Internet",
"transitive"
]
}
],
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{
"audio": "En-au-HB.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/33/En-au-HB.ogg/En-au-HB.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/En-au-HB.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "HB"
}
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