BB.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
Bb.	English	Baseball	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Non-Fiction Usage: BB.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Political Economy	INDIA	Relationship with Creditors: Citing its growing foreign exchange reserves and ample food stocks, India chose not to negotiate an extended financing facility with the IMF when its standby arrangement expired in May 1993. In October 1998, Standard and Poor's (S&P) downgraded India's foreign currency rating from BB+ to BB. In October 1999, Moody's upgraded India's foreign currency rating outlook from stable to positive while maintaining an unchanged speculative grade rating of Ba2. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Usage Frequency: BB.

"BB." is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BB." is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Alternative Orthography: BB.

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 42 2E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000010 00101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#66 &#46

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0042 002E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	3	202,518

BB.

Abbreviations & Acronyms: BB.

Bb.

Non-Fiction Usage: BB.

Political Economy

INDIA