Betty

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Betty is a common diminutive for the names "Elizabeth", "Bethany", or any other name containing "bet".

Contents 1 Terms 2 Actresses 3 Fictional characters 4 In Music

[edit] Terms

• Slang for a cigarette, some alcohol, or some illegal drugs.
• Slang for a pretty woman. e.g., "Check out that Betty."
• Japanese Mitsubishi G4M aircraft (Allied reporting name)
• Slang for being deceived or deceiving someone (e.g., "He stole my cheese, betty" or "that woman bettied me over 5 bucks")

[edit] Actresses

• Betty Grable - American actress, singer, dancer, and pin-up girl whose sensational bathing-suit photo became the number one pinup of the World War II era.
• Betty Driver - British singer and actress.
• Betty White - American television actress best known for her roles in the sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls.
• Betty Buckley - American theater, film, and television actress.
• Betty Ann Reyher - known for her Crazy Betty Ann videos
• Betty (porn star) - German movie actress dealing mostly with bukkake, urolagnia and urophagia ("golden showers").

[edit] Fictional characters

• Betty La Fea or Ugly Betty, a fictional character created in a Colombian Soap opera with tremendous international success and which was the origin for the US version Ugly Betty
• Betty Boop, a Paramount Pictures cartoon character.
• Betty Rubble, Flintstones character
• Betty Cooper, a character of Archie Comics.
• Betty Crocker, a brand name.
• Betty Kane, now known as Bette Kane.
• Betty Spaghetty
• Atomic Betty, Cartoon Network-Teletoon's first child superhero.
• Betty, formerly known as Master Pain, the main villain from Kung Pow
• Betty Suarez, the title character and heroine of ABC's dramedy series Ugly Betty
• Betty is the name of a fictional Cairn Terrier, formerly owned by Pauline Fowler in the British soap Eastenders.

[edit] In Music

• Betty, used in the name of at least four albums.
• "Black Betty" was the name of a song redone several times.
• Betty, a pop rock alternative band from New York City fronted by Elizabeth Ziff, Alyson Palmer, and Amy Ziff.
• Pray for the Soul of Betty, the name of a hard rock band from New York City.
• Betty is a long-running British musical from 1915.