b4

See also: B4

English

Preposition

b4

1. Alternative letter-case form of B4 (“before”)
   • 2004, Ellen Wittlinger, Heart on My Sleeve, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, pages 77 and 167:

     gotta be back b4 joey gets here […] let’s get 2gether again b4 julian comes, ok?

   • 2004, Paul Howard, PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids, The O’Brien Press, published 2012, →ISBN:

     Was in Orphas room 2nite readin her diary again. 4got sum of it from b4.

   • 2009, Tara Chace, transl., Are U 4 Real?, Dial Books, translation of original by Sara Kadefors, →ISBN:

     imagine if i die b4 i figure it out!

   • 2010, Jessica Burkhart, Elite Ambition, Aladdin M!X, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, →ISBN:

     Hope 2 run into u 2day b4 I talk 2 Callie.

   • 2011, Geraldine Bloustien, Margaret Peters, Youth, Music and Creative Cultures: Playing for Life, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 215:

     All drinks £2.50 b4 11pm.

   • 2014, Elisabeth Sheffield, Helen Keller Really Lived, The University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, pages 203–209:

     it also seems a lil hippo-criticl gvn youv been ritin a blog abt her and yer life as a gr8t artst & a muther snc b4 she wuz born. […] i wuz just reedn wut i rote 2 u b4. […] thar was 1 lil grrl w/curli brown hair like mine b4 i got it str8nd at sefora. […] moms used to babysit wen she wuz my age but that wuz a long time ago b4 9-11 […] hes gonna cum in just 3 hours b4 moms gets up & im gonna meet him down the street so that she duznt heer his car.

   • 2018, Douglas Rees, Elektra’s Adventures in Tragedy, Running Press Teens, Perseus Books:

     Yesterday. No, day b4.

   • 2019, Brett Wirebaugh, Half-Tail Rising, Resource Publications, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 141:

     wen they r evacuating b4 the 14th