Urban Dictionary: BL

BL is a short term for, "Boy Love". In other words it means Gay, Yaoi, Boy X Boy. BL is commonly used in anime.

Person1: Hey want to watch some bl with me?
Person2 : What's that?
Person1 : Oh it's like gays basically, Or like a Gay TV series Or Anime...ect
Person2 : Sure!

by my defined stuff by me :) December 11, 2019

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In Japan, BL is the "modern" term for Shounenai, deffinition meaning "Boys love."

No matter how you spell it, english or kanji, you will get NOTHING on shounenai on a Japanese search engine, save dead sites refurring to retro mangas from the 70s & 80s.

by Allaiyah January 14, 2004

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Bl means Boys Love, it is often is used as another word for yaoi, which involves manga or anime. The book would most likely have the abriviation BL on it. Otherwise Warning this contains Gay things.

"YAY! SO I'M NOT LIKE ONE OF THOSE BL CHARACTERS!"

by Jeffrey Woods June 03, 2016

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BL stands for Boys Love, BL is also an anime/manga genre somewhat close to yaoi.

Wow! i just love BL mangas.

by amelialovesyou September 20, 2020

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Boy Lover, usually used in internet culture to describe girls who like to ship gay (male) couples.

Alice: "Have you seen that BL show?"
Elena: "OMG, those two boys fit so well together!"
Alice: "IKR, I wish they get married now AAAA"

by Dread3301 January 28, 2021

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A less common abrieviation for bitch lasagna