"tb" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: tbs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} tb (plural tbs)
  1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of throwback (“something that evokes memories”).. Tags: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: throwback (extra: (“something that evokes memories”)..)
    Sense id: en-tb-en-noun-1uB6VYjA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2022 September 21, @Zaynabj03, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-12-26:",
          "text": "snapchat memories keeps attacking me with tbs to when i was aggressively liberal😑😑😑",
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          "ref": "2022 October 25, “Hot take: it's wrong to constantly call yourself fat in front of your friends and 99% of the time your reasons for doing so are not as innocent as y'all try to make it out to be.”, in Reddit, r/EDAnonymous, archived from the original on 2023-12-26:",
          "text": "Tb to my friend sending me a pic of their skinny waist and thigh gap w the caption \"i'm huge\"",
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        {
          "ref": "2023 March 4, @IzayasDemons, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-12-26:",
          "text": "Tb to how I randomly got a selfie with Theresa Jarvis and ngl we look so cute in it.",
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          "ref": "2023 September 29, u/NA_1-9_AT_MSI, “zip that includes solo solo has surfaced but it's password protected😭”, in Reddit, r/playboicarti, archived from the original on 2023-12-26:",
          "text": "Tb to when someone on 4chan cracked the early mbdtf version zip and said „idk why yall want this n****r music anyway”",
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          "ref": "2023 March 4, @IzayasDemons, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-12-26:",
          "text": "Tb to how I randomly got a selfie with Theresa Jarvis and ngl we look so cute in it.",
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