In multiple threads, I've seen references made to the BB, which apparently is a Shadowrun book. If I had to guess, it's probably SR4, and stands for something like the "Big Bad Book."
So, an anybody tell me what it is?
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Big Black Book, apparently in reference to the earlier edition Core books.
As this comes up at least once every other week, maybe there should be a stickied thread with a list of the acronyms & their meanings...
As this comes up at least once every other week, maybe there should be a stickied thread with a list of the acronyms & their meanings...
QUOTE (Muspellsheimr @ Jun 9 2008, 07:18 PM) 
Big Black Book, apparently in reference to the earlier edition Core books.
As this comes up at least once every other week, maybe there should be a stickied thread with a list of the acronyms & their meanings...
As this comes up at least once every other week, maybe there should be a stickied thread with a list of the acronyms & their meanings...
ya totally, it will definetely help put new members of the forum. when I first join the forum I was reading a post and the BBB reference appearead several times, it was driving me crazy so I put BBB on the search engine. Turns out another guy asked the same not to long ago
IF I have time later, I will craete a topic with all this things so members can add what should be there too.
QUOTE (Sweaty Hippo @ Jun 9 2008, 07:14 PM)
In multiple threads, I've seen references made to the BB, which apparently is a Shadowrun book. If I had to guess, it's probably SR4, and stands for something like the "Big Bad Book."
So, an anybody tell me what it is?
So, an anybody tell me what it is?
Big Bad book sounds cool too, but I think most ppl use it as "Big Black Book"
Thanks for all your help, everyone!
If your going to sticky the acronyms can some one give me the meaning of the older SR slang i can not find it in my inherited library of source books and SR3 stuff 
The BBB is the Big Black Book, in other words, the necronomicon. Duh.
QUOTE (Dumori @ Jun 10 2008, 09:00 AM)
If your going to sticky the acronyms
I vote No on the sticky!
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... can some one give me the meaning of the older SR slang i can not find it in my inherited library of source books and SR3 stuff
Such as?
Back in the olden days it meant Big Blue Book... and we didn't have "FAQs" or "Erratas" - we read it in the dark... up hill both ways... 
[edit]Dumori: you might start with THIS. It never really caught on (unfortunately) but a lot of the acronyms are used frequently.[/edit]
[edit]Dumori: you might start with THIS. It never really caught on (unfortunately) but a lot of the acronyms are used frequently.[/edit]
@ Fortune
such as Chummer and frag ect.
such as Chummer and frag ect.
Chummer = Friend, companion, buddy.
Frag = Expletive that replaces the previous "F" word.
What else?
Frag = Expletive that replaces the previous "F" word.
What else?
Chummer = friend/buddy/pal/etc.
Frag = fuck (not the sexual version) - also can mean kill/maim/etc.
Frag = fuck (not the sexual version) - also can mean kill/maim/etc.
Sexual version has been replaced by "Jam", BTW.
QUOTE (CanRay @ Jun 9 2008, 06:46 PM)
Sexual version has been replaced by "Jam", BTW.
I thought that it was replaced by "slot," which ironically could also mean to murder/kill?
QUOTE (bishop186 @ Jun 9 2008, 07:47 PM)
I thought that it was replaced by "slot," which ironically could also mean to murder/kill?
I've seen both, come to think of it.
You know, I should just link the official slang guide.
Is there a page with all this slang on it in any books I have a inherited library but im not looking though the 40 ish i have for on bit of info.
never mind the post was slow in posting ( i for got to it ok)
never mind the post was slow in posting ( i for got to it ok)
QUOTE (CanRay @ Jun 10 2008, 10:46 AM)
Sexual version has been replaced by "Jam", BTW.
News to me. In which books is 'jam' used with that connotation in Shadowrun?
There's a couple pages with slang tables on them in the BBB. The hacker-related is in The Matrix section, and I'm not sure where the regular one is at. It's kind of in a random place. I think it's in the index, however.
QUOTE (Fortune @ Jun 9 2008, 07:54 PM)
News to me. In which books is 'jam' used with that connotation in Shadowrun?
Trying to remember that now. A novel or two, IIRC.
Curse my weak brain and tendency to post before thinking things through!
Closest thing to a listing of SR slang I've seen is the one here:
http://www.intercom.net/user/logan1/glossary.htm
http://www.intercom.net/user/logan1/glossary.htm
Thanks Lord Malachdrim!
There you go!
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Jamming
v. 1. Having sex; 2. Moshing; 3. Being involved in highly dangerous, paramilitary ops.
v. 1. Having sex; 2. Moshing; 3. Being involved in highly dangerous, paramilitary ops.
There you go!
Didn't actually answer my question.
It definitely isn't all that commonly used, being that it isn't included on any of the other lists of Shadowrun slang I have ever seen, including the official one you yourself linked.
It definitely isn't all that commonly used, being that it isn't included on any of the other lists of Shadowrun slang I have ever seen, including the official one you yourself linked.
Ahhh, I see the problem.
There are words on that list that do not necessarily appear in actual Shadowrun books. There is also stuff from Cyberpunk 2020 and Snow Crash, as well as stuff submitted by websurfers visiting the page.
QUOTE (Big Knoby Klub)
THIS IS IT! The 2061 Slang Glossary. With its humble beginnings as a simple "2050 Glossary of Slang" [from "Into the Shadows," pp. 277-281 & Shadowrun, 1st ed (BBB), pg. 161], this compilation has grown into the 146K-Byte, hypertext monster that it is, today. (With any luck I haven't left too many dead links!) Kudos & Karma to Jes Wulfsberg Nielsen who did lots of the CP-2020 compiling muck-work and to Renegade (Phil Ward), & Pelzig, for their "Slang Guide to 2054," which included the contributions from Neal Stephenson's novel, "Snow Crash."
There are words on that list that do not necessarily appear in actual Shadowrun books. There is also stuff from Cyberpunk 2020 and Snow Crash, as well as stuff submitted by websurfers visiting the page.
I think I remember the book finally! "Who Hunts the Hunter" by Nyx Smith!
Don't quote me on that, however, we're talking my brain here, but it twigged as that's where I saw it.
Don't quote me on that, however, we're talking my brain here, but it twigged as that's where I saw it.
QUOTE (Nefacio @ Jun 9 2008, 05:28 PM)
when I first join the forum I was reading a post and the BBB reference appearead several times, it was driving me crazy so I put BBB on the search engine.
Since when does the search engine allow three character search terms?
Dunno, but a Google search (using BBB + Shadowrun) turned up the answer pretty quickly.
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