FBPE

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.”

CEFR level