BLM

BLM

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Saint Barthélemy since 2007.

   Synonym: BL (alpha-2)

BLM (uncountable)

1. (pharmacology) Abbreviation of bleomycin.

BLM

1. (US) Initialism of Bureau of Land Management: an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering public lands, created in 1946.
   • 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 176:

     The latrines and community showers are sinful indulgences, compared to her BLM cabin, with its frigid sponge baths on the porch at night.

2. Initialism of Black Lives Matter: an international human rights movement, originated in 2013 within the African-American community, which campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people.
   • 2022 January 9, Douglas Murray, “Boris Johnson has utterly failed to back up his anti-woke rhetoric with action”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph‎^[1], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 December 2023:

     The June 2020 protest at which the Bristol slave-trader and philanthropist's statue was brought down was a BLM protest. But none of the defendants were black. Rather, as you can tell from their names (including Milo Ponsford and Sage Willoughby) they were almost comically typical of a certain rah, right-on Bristol type.

   • 2024 [2023], Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Vintage, →ISBN, page 60:

     But then came the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings. “My friends all told me I had to get back on Instagram and post pro-BLM,” she said, “or everyone would think I was racist”—this despite the fact that she had been participating in all the protests in her area, albeit in a quiet, behind-the-scenes way.

• BLMer

BLM

1. Initialism of black lives matter.

   Coordinate terms: WLM, ALM, PLM

• LBM, LMB, MBL, MLB, lbm