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TBT

Portuguese, noun

TBT is spelled T-B-T (3 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 57,216th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). TBT is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Throwback Thursday” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does TBT mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineThrowback Thursday

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

abbreviation: 1. pode ser traduzido como "quinta da lembrança"; postagens com fotos ou memórias antigas já postados previamente que são postadas como forma de lembrar o passado nas redes sociais às quintas-feiras, acompanhadas da hashtag #tbt

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of TBT

  • TBTs plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is TBT in Portuguese?

TBT appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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