PIB
n.— «The celebrities are easy to spot too. “They invariably wear all-black.…The locals refer to them as PIBs [People in Black], and they make really easy snowball targets schussing down the slopes or walking down Main Street.”» —“Catch a schussing star” by Ken Hegan Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) Nov. 26, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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