Definition, synonyms and related words
plural of lb; pounds
"She needs to buy three lbs of ground beef for tonight's tacos."
plural of LB
In plain English: Lbs is the abbreviation for pounds, which is a unit used to measure how heavy something is.
"I need to carry two heavy bags of flour that weigh thirty lbs each."
Usage: Use lbs to represent pounds of weight when referring to multiple items or quantities, such as in grocery receipts or shipping labels. Always write it in lowercase unless it appears at the very beginning of a sentence.
The abbreviation lbs is formed by adding an s to the singular symbol lb to represent multiple pounds. This construction follows standard English pluralization rules rather than the grammatical patterns found in its source language, Latin.