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BYOB en · X

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, also, alt-of, attributive, initialism) Initialism of bring your own bottle/booze/beer/beverage.
    • It is a BYOB affair tonight, but ice, paper cups, and mixers are for sale. As the room fills, the lines lengthen. 2011, Charles Farley, Soul of the Man: Bobby "Blue" Bland, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 117:
    • Whether you choose a modest family restaurant, the little café around the corner, the new BYOB everybody's talking about, or even the local pizza palace, […] 2005, Jax Peters Lowell, The Gluten-Free Bible: The Thoroughly Indispensable Guide to Negotiating Life without Wheat, Holt Paperbacks, →ISBN:
  2. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, qualifier:Utah) Initialism of bring your own Bible.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of bring your own buffer.
    • This release now supports proper BYOB readers on Fetch and WebTransport, which allows developers to prepare their ArrayBuffer so that it can be reused for read requests and thus saves memory allocation. 2023 August 1, Firefox 116.0 release notes:

Coordinates

cash bar · full bar · fully licensed · open bar

Relateds

corkage · BYOW · BYO

Synonyms

BYO