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Billy

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈbɪli//

A diminutive of the male given name William.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the male given name William.

    “By the way,” Jessamy went on, “what’s your other name? You never told me.” “Stubbs,” said Billy, “William Stubbs!”.

    Then there’s Billy Long, a former auctioneer and Republican congressman who Trump nominated and was confirmed less than two months ago to head the Internal Revenue Service, with “little background in tax policy beyond promoting a fraud-riddled tax credit”. Long has already been fired after clashing with the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent. Long was the sixth person to head the IRS this year.

  2. 2

    The B-25 twin-engine bomber aircraft used during World War Two, commonly called the "B-25 Mitchell" in honor of U.S. Army General William "Billy" Mitchell.

    Just then a squadron of "Billys" -- twin-engined B-25 Mitchell land-based bombers -- flew overhead ….

Etymology

Diminutive and pet-form; from Bill + -y.

Forms

plural
Billys
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).