bio

1. (social media) A short section of a user profile that contains information about the user, especially one which can be customised; the about me section.Examples: "To find more about her, check out her bio on Instagram."; "Gendercrits are now putting dinosaur emoji in their bios 🦕🦖, presumably to illustrate that their views are extinct relics of the past."; "She doesn’t position herself as a biblical scholar or a prophet. She’s a humble “wifey & mommy,” according to her Instagram bio—even if her 2019 wedding did garner almost 2.5 million views on YouTube."Synonyms: biopage

2. (informal) Clipping of biology.Examples: "I've got a bio exam in the morning."; "It boils down to science. Biology, chemistry and physics. I used to hate bio and chem. Now they fascinate me because I’ve realised they make up the world around us as well as us."abbreviationalt-ofclippinginformal

3. (South Africa, informal) Clipping of bioscope (“cinema”).Examples: "Sometimes Estelle had to help her mother on Saturdays and Irwin went to classes for ultra-brainy children, but Alan and I always went to the bio."South-Africaabbreviationalt-ofclippinginformal