Meaning of FBPE | Babel Free

Definitions

Initialism of follow back, pro-European Union.

abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Examples

“Apart from #Brexit, which appears in 5,135,423 pure tweets, according to our data the hashtags contained in more than 100,000 pure tweets are: #peoplesvote, #eu, #uk, #stopbrexit, #remain, #brexitshambles, #borisjohnson, #revokearticle50, #fbpe, #labour, and #nodeal.”

“Another pro-EU user, who has ‘#FBPE’ (Follow Back Pro EU) in bio, gathered several thousand likes by replying to Cameron with a visual of a memorial board saying ‘David Cameron, MP for Witney 2001-2016, Gambled his country for his ego and ran away to let others sort out the problems when he lost.’”

“One of the things naughty observers like me enjoy about the current excitement over flag-raising is how it gives conniptions to what we might call the FBPE crowd, the progressives and public-sector panjandrums who have ruled the roost for decades.”

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