English

Proper noun

Billboard ‎(uncountable)

1. Any one or more of the music charts published by Billboard magazine.
   • 2012. "Yogi Chill From Soulfood Music And DJ Free On Sale Digitally". Alt.emusic.

     He has charted on Billboard and several international DJ and Dance charts.

   • 2009. "Looking For Benny Goodman Quartet - St. Louis Blues 1936". alt.music.big-band.

     This song was originally on Victor 25411 and charted on Billboard at #20 on 10/24/36.

   • 2000. "Steve Monahan........trivia buffs". rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1960s.

     No other Monahan ever charted on Billboard and nothing by anyone named Monahan ever charted at CHUM, the leading Top 40 station in Toronto

English

Noun

billboard ‎(plural billboards)

1. A very large advertisement along the side of a highway.
2. (dated) A flat surface, such as a panel or fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.
3. (nautical) A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)

4. (computer graphics) A sprite that always faces the screen, no matter which direction it's looked at from.

Derived terms

• billboarded
• billboarding

Translations

Anagrams

• broadbill