Not-so-big shot

The answer

BBS

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BBS answer page.

Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2003. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for BBS

Every other clue in this collection answered by BBS, most used first.

• Air rifle ammo - used 89 times, most recently in 2026
• Small ammo - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
• Air gun ammo - used 47 times, most recently in 2025
• Small shot - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Air gun pellets - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
• Cheap shot? - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• No big shot? - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Small pellets - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Air rifle pellets - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Gun pellets - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Small shots - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Some ammo - used 8 times, most recently in 2016
• Some shot - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• Tiny ammo - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Toy gun ammo - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Red Ryder ammo - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
• Ammo for a Red Ryder - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• King and others - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
• Little shots - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Big bird - EMU, used 212 times
• Big fuss - ADO, used 194 times
• Not 'neath - OER, used 186 times
• California's Big ___ - SUR, used 162 times
• Not many - FEW, used 155 times
• "Big Blue" - IBM, used 110 times

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