1. abbr. Holding Back Laughter
When someone sends you something funny, but you're in a public or professional place and you can't laugh, instead of responding with LOL or HaHa, you say HBL. That way they know to stop sending you funny things, or they can try and send you something funnier and make you spill your beans.
When someone sends you something funny, but you're in a public or professional place and you can't laugh, instead of responding with LOL or HaHa, you say HBL. That way they know to stop sending you funny things, or they can try and send you something funnier and make you spill your beans.
Jake: *Sends today's freshest meme to Allyson via text message*
Allyson: HBL
Jake: *Sends a funnier meme to Allyon via text message*
Allyson: *laughs out loud and spills the beans*
Allyson: HBL
Jake: *Sends a funnier meme to Allyon via text message*
Allyson: *laughs out loud and spills the beans*
by JakeNotJohn June 30, 2017
by JakeNotJohn August 20, 2017