hbc

/EY1 CH B IY0 S IY1/
noun
  1. 1

    (retail) Initialism of health and beauty care.

  2. 2

    (medicine) Initialism of hormonal birth control.

  3. 3

    (Canada, historical) Initialism of Hudson's Bay Company, a major Canadian retailer and former British Crown corporation on the North American fur trade.

  4. 4

    (veterinary medicine) Initialism of hit by car.

  5. 5

    (organic chemistry) Abbreviation of hexabenzocoronene. [(organic chemistry) A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon in which six benzene rings are fused to the six available positions of a coronene ring]