OB
Arts and entertainment
- Sam "O.B." O'Brien, a fictional character in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
- Orphan Black, a Canadian science fiction television show
- Ob, a fictional currency in The Great Explosion
Businesses and organizations
- Odense Boldklub, a Danish football club
- Oriental Brewery, a South Korean brewery, which produces the OB lagers
- Outward Bound, an international outdoor education organization
- Astrakhan Airlines (IATA code) (defunct)
- Boliviana de Aviación (IATA code)
People
- Ed O'Bradovich, an American former professional football player, known as "OB"
- Old Badmintonians, former pupils of Badminton School, Bristol, England
- Old Bedfordians, former pupils of Bedford School, England
- Old Bristolians, former pupils of Bristol Grammar School, England
Places
- Ob (river), a river in West Siberia, Russia
- Ob Sea, an artificial lake on the river Ob
- Ob, Russia, a town in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia
- Ob, Germany, in Bidingen, Bavaria, Germany
- Gulf of Ob, a bay of the Arctic Ocean in Northern Russia
- Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
- Ocean Beach, San Diego, a neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States
Science and technology
- OB star, in astronomy, a hot, massive star of spectral types O or B
- Object Manager (Windows), a Windows NT subsystem
- Obstetrics, a medical specialty dealing with childbirth, often used in "obstetrics and gynaecology" (abbreviated OB/GYN)
- Oligonucleotide/Oligosaccharide DNA-Binding-fold domain
- Organizational behavior, an academic field
- Outside broadcasting, a television broadcasting from a mobile television studio, such as a van
- Obliterative bronchiolitis, a disease that results in obstruction of the smallest airways of the lungs due to inflammation
Other uses
- ob., died, from Latin obitus. Also ob. inf. (died in infancy), ob. inf. Set. (died as minor), ob. inn. (died a spinster), ob. juv. (died in childhood)
- o.b. (brand), a brand of feminine hygiene products
- Halfpenny (British pre-decimal coin), from "ob", archaic abbreviation (see, e.g., Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part One, II.iv.539)
- Order of Burma
- "Over-the-counter bulletin board", in stock listings
- Organizational behavior
- Order of battle
- "Out of bounds", an area outside the course play area, in golf
See also
- Obese Records, a former Australian record label, founded as a record store in Melbourne called O.B.'s
- Obi (disambiguation)
- Obie (disambiguation)
- OOB (disambiguation)
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