Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bbl

1 sense of bbl

Sense 1
barrel, bbl -- (any of various units of capacity; "a barrel of beer is 31 gallons and a barrel of oil is 42 gallons")
       => United States liquid unit -- (a liquid unit officially adopted in the United States Customary System)
       => British capacity unit, Imperial capacity unit -- (a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet)