Clipping of debutante.
"The research paper introduced deb as an initialism for dynamic energy budget to describe how organisms allocate metabolic resources."
Initialism of dynamic energy budget.
In plain English: A debate is an argument where two sides discuss and argue about different opinions on a topic.
"The local community group held an annual deb to raise money for charity."
Abbreviated form of the female given name Deborah.
"Deb stopped by to say hello after work."
The word deb is a shortened form of the words debutante and debut. It entered English as an informal way to refer to a young woman making her social entrance at a ball.