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Writer Adam Gopnik learned Internet chat from his son, Luke, and quickly caught on to such lingo as ‘brb’ and ‘gtg.’
Adam Gopnik: I Didn’t Know What ‘LOL’ Meant
Adam Gopnik
September 3, 2013
And Luke taught me all of the abbreviations: “brb” means “be right back,” “U2” means “you too,” “g2g” means “got to go.”
Adam Gopnik: I Didn’t Know What ‘LOL’ Meant
Adam Gopnik
September 3, 2013
But BRB, which launched last week, offers a twist: a nostalgic nod to the days of AOL Instant Messenger.
BRB, a New App, Wants You to Put Down That Phone, Without FOMO
Eliza Shapiro
September 2, 2013
Historical Examples of brb
Barb, brb, n. a swift kind of horse, the breed of which came from Barbary in North Africa.
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)
Various
Barbel, brb′el, n. a fresh-water fish with beard-like appendages at its mouth.
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)
Various
British Dictionary definitions for brb BRB abbreviation for be right back Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for brb
by 1996, Internet chat acronym for be right back.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
