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HBA en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable) Abbreviation of health-and-beauty aid.
    • We have in Miami approx 110,000 to 120,000 units of the best known brand of HBA products we have NEUTROGENA ... at $0.12 & $0.20 per unit FACIAL BARS (soaps) .... approx 31,000 PcS 1999 October 15, miamibst@bellsouth.net, “Sell: NEUTROGENA $0.12”, in alt.business.misc (Usenet):
    • I get a lot of HBA stuff like shampoo and cosmetics where the formulation or even just the packaging has been changed. 2007 October 14, JoAnne Schmitz , “Re: Cable, ISP, Phone Bargains”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of honour-based abuse.
    • That book, first conceived in 2007, had the principal aim of highlighting women's victimisation across the world in the name of so-called honour, and we wanted to highlight that HBA is not purely an Islamic phenomenon. 2019, Mohammad Mazher Idriss, Men, Masculinities and Honour-Based Abuse:

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