I hope, this post will be useful to you all. Sometimes when I'm chatting with my friends, they use short forms, but I can't understand. If it's a very basic like "10q", i can , but other short forms i can't understand. Sometimes i will have to ask my friend - "what does it mean?". Once, one of my friends(Thiruvarangan) gave me this list. I've edited his list a little.
| List of Initialisms and Acronyms | |
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| *S* | *Smile* |
| 10Q | Thank You |
| 1FTR | One For The Road |
| 24/7 | 24 hours a day; 7 days a week |
| A/S/L? | Age/Sex/Location? |
| A/S? | Age/Sex? |
| AAMOF | As A Matter Of Fact |
| ACK | Acknowledgement |
| ACRONYM | Abbreviated Coded Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning |
| ADD | Attention Deficit Disorder |
| ADHD | Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |
| ADN | Any Day Now |
| AFAIAC | As Far As I Am Concerned |
| AFAICR | As Far As I Can Recall |
| AFAICT | As Far As I Can Tell |
| AFAIK | As Far As I Know |
| AFAIR | As Far As I Remember/Recall |
| AFAIUI | As Far As I Understand It |
| AFJ | April Fools' Joke |
| AFK | Away From The Keyboard; Away For A Kwickie |
| AFL | AbsoFreakinLutely |
| AFOG | Another Fucking Opportunity for Growth |
| AHPF | All Hail Pass Fail (via MIT) |
| YA x AICMFP | You are x and I claim my five pounds (Britishism; via old newspaper promo) |
| AISB | As I Said Before |
| AISE | As I Said Earlier |
| AISI | As I See It |
| AIUI | As I Understand It |
| AIW | As It Were/Was |
| AKA | Also Known As |
| AMAP | As Much/Many As Possible |
| ANFAWFOS | And Now For A Word From Our Sponsor |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| AOB | Any Other Business |
| AP | Age Play |
| APAC | All Praise And Credit |
| API | Application Program Interface |
| ARPA | Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| AS | Another Subject |
| ASAP | As Soon As Possible |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASL | Age-Sex-Location |
| ASNWS | A Simple No Would Suffice |
| ATB | All The Best |
| ATK | At The Keyboard |
| ATLA | Another Three Letter Acronym |
| ATM | At The Moment |
| ATSL | Along The Same Lines |
| ATTN | Attention |
| ATTYOB | Anything That Turns You On Baby |
| AUP | Acceptable Use Policy |
| AWCIGO | And Where Can I Get One |
| AWGTHTGTATA | Are We Going To Have To Go Through All This/That Again |
| AWGTHTGTTA | Are We Going To Have To Go Through This/That Again |
| AWHFY | Are We Having Fun Yet |
| AWOL | Absent Without Official Leave |
| AYBABTU | All Your Base Are Belong To Us |
| AYMK | As You May Know |
| AYT | Are You There |
| B&D | Bondage and Discipline |
| B/C | Because |
| B4 | Before |
| B4N | Bye For Now |
| BAC | By Any Chance |
| BAD | Broken As Designed |
| BAG | Busting A Gut |
| BAGL | Busting A Gut Laughing |
| BAK | Back At Keyboard |
| BBB | Busy Beyond Belief |
| BBFN | Bye Bye For Now |
| BBIAB | Be Back In A Bit |
| BBIAS | Be Back In A Sec |
| BBL | [I'll] Be Back Later |
| BBM | Big Beautiful Man |
| BBR | Burnt Beyond Repair |
| BBS | Bulletin Board System / Be Back Soon |
| BBT | Be Back Tomorrow |
| BBW | Big Beautiful Woman |
| BC | Basket Case |
| BCC | Blind Carbon Copy |
| BCNU | Be Seein' You |
| BDSM | Bondage & Discipline, Dominance & Submission, Sado-Masochism |
| BDSMLMNOP | BDSM and whatever else we might do |
| BEG | Big Evil Grin |
| BF | Boy Friend |
| BFD | Big Fucking Deal |
| BFH | Bastard From Hell |
| BFMI | Brute Force and Massive Ignorance |
| BFN | Bye For Now |
| BFNN | Bizarre Format with No Name (document format) |
| BG | Big Grin |
| BI | Breidbart Index [the SPAM index of a Usenet post] |
| BIAB | Back In A Bit |
| BIAF | Back In A Few |
| BIALW | back in a little while |
| BIAS | Back In A Second |
| BIAW | Back In A While |
| BIC | Best In Class |
| BIL | Brother In Law |
| BION | Believe It Or Not |
| BIOYIOP | Blow It Out Your Input Output Port |
| BITD | Back In The Day |
| BITD | Beaten It To Death |
| BK | Because |
| BMHATK | Banging My Head Against The Keyboard |
| BMHATW | Banging My Head Against The Wall |
| BMOC | Big Man On Campus |
| BMTA | Brilliant Minds Think Alike |
| BMTIPG | Brilliant Minds Think In Parallel Gutters |
| BNF | Big Name Fan |
| BOC | But Of Course |
| BOF | Birds Of a Feather |
| BOFH | Bastard Operator From Hell |
| BOHICA | Bend Over, Here It Comes Again |
| BOHOF | Back Of Hand On Forehead |
| BOS | Big Orange Switch |
| BOT | Back On Topic |
| BOTEC | Back Of The Envelope Calculation |
| BPD | Borderline Personality Disorder |
| BRB | [I'll] Be Right Back |
| BRS | Big Red Switch |
| BRT | Be Right There |
| BSG | Big Smiling Grin; Broad Sweeping Generalisation |
| BSOD | Blue Screen of Death (Windows NT, et al.) |
| BSTS | Better Safe Than Sorry |
| BTA | But Then Again |
| BTAICBW | But Then Again I Could Be Wrong |
| BTAIM | Be That As It May |
| BTDT | Been There, Done That |
| BTDTGTTS | Been There, Done That, Got The T-Shirt |
| BTOBD | Be There Or Be Dead |
| BTOBS | Be There Or Be Square |
| BTSOOM | Beats The Shit Out Of Me |
| BTTH | Butt To The Head |
| BTTP | Back To The Point |
| BTW | By The Way |
| BWG | Big Wide Grin |
| BWQ | Buzz Word Quotient |
| BY | BusY |
| BYKT | But You Know/Knew That |
| BYKTA | But You Know/Knew That Already |
| BYOB | Bring Your Own Bottle/Booze |
| C&P | Copy & Paste |
| C/O | Care Of |
| CADET | Can't Add Doesn't Even Try |
| CB | Call Back |
| CB | Chastity Belt |
| CBT | Cock and Ball Torture/Training |
| CC | Carbon Copy |
| CCWC | Can't Cook Won't Cook |
| CD | Cross Dresser |
| CE | Creative Editing |
| CERT | Computer Emergency Response Team |
| CFD | Call For Discussion |
| CFV | Call For Votes |
| CG | Cute Grin |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface |
| CHOWUR | See HOW yoU aRe |
| CHUR | See How yoU aRe |
| CIAC | Computer Incident Advisory Capability |
| CIAO | goodbye [pronounced Chow] |
| CIC | Christ I'm Confused |
| CIO | Cut It Out |
| CIS | Complete and Irrevocable Submission |
| CLAB | Crying Like A Baby |
| CLM | Career Limiting Move |
| CMIIW | Correct Me If I'm Wrong |
| CNC | Consensual Non Consent |
| CNP | Continued [In My] Next Post |
| CO | Clothing Optional |
| COD | Cash On Delivery |
| COTFLGUOAHAHA | Crawling On The Floor Laughing Guts Out And Having A Heart Attack |
| COTS | Commercial Off The Shelf |
| CP | Corporal Punishment |
| CPF | Can Pigs Fly |
| CRC | Cyclic Redundancy Check |
| CS | Cop Shop |
| CTS | Carpal Tunnel Syndrome |
| CTTD | Cute Things They Do |
| CTTOI | Come To Think Of It |
| CTTS | Cute Things They Say |
| CU | See You |
| CUL | See You Later |
| CUL8R | See yoU LateR |
| CW | Continuous Wave (the carrier type used for Morse code communications) |
| CW | Conventional Wisdom |
| CWYL | Chat With You Later |
| CYA | Cover Your Ass |
| CYA | See Ya |
| CYA | See You Around |
| CYL | See You Later |
| CYT | Cute Young Thing |
| C|N>K | "Coffee (piped through) Nose, (redirected to) Keyboard" |
| D&W | Ducking And Weaving |
| D/L | Download |
| D/S or D/s | Dominance and Submission |
| DADT | Don't Ask, Don't Tell |
| DAP | Parents Against Dyslexia :) |
| DARFC | Ducking And Running For Cover |
| DBA | Doing Business As |
| DBT | Dialectical Behavior Therapy |
| DEB | Don't Even Bother |
| DFM | Don't Flame Me |
| DFU | Don't Forget Units |
| DGT | Don't Go There |
| DID | Dissociative Identity Disorder (used to be MPD) |
| DIIK | Damned If I Know |
| DIIN | Damned If I kNow |
| DILLIGAFF | Do I Look Like I Give A Flying Fuck |
| DIM | Do It Myself |
| DIY | Do It Yourself |
| DK | Don't Know |
| DKF | Dreaded Koosh Flogger |
| DL | DownLoad |
| DLG | Devilish Little Grin |
| DLTDHYITAOYWO | Dont Let The Door Hit You In The Ass On Your Way Out |
| DMQ | Do-Me Queen |
| DNA | Did Not Answer |
| DNDK | Don't Know, Don't Care |
| DNO | Do Not Open [used in the subject line of a test post or email] |
| DNPM | Damn Near Pissed Myself |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| DOA | Dead On Arrival |
| DOB | Date Of Birth |
| DOM | Dirty Old Man |
| DOS | Disk Operating System |
| DOYC | Deity Of Your Choice |
| DOYKB | Down On Your Knees, Bitch |
| DQOTD | Dumb Question Of The Day |
| DSW | Dick Size War |
| DTA | Don't Trust Anybody |
| DTOKAB | Drop To One Knee And Bow |
| DTP | DeskTop Publishing |
| DTRT | Do The Right Thing (contrast with DTWT) |
| DTTAH | Don't Try This At Home |
| DTWT | Do The Wrong Thing (contrast with DTRT) |
| DTYD | Drink Till You Drop (party at MIT) |
| DUCWIC | Do YoU See What I See |
| DUK | Dead Upon Keyboard |
| DWAI | Don't Worry About It |
| DWIM | Do What I Mean |
| DWIMC | Do What I Mean Correctly |
| DWIMNWIS | Do What I Mean Not What I Say |
| DWISNWID | Do What I Say Not What I Do |
| DWIW | Do What I Want |
| DWYW | Do What You Want |
| DYE | Damn Your Eyes |
| DYHWIH | Do You Hear What I Hear |
| DYSWIS | Do You See What I See |
| DoS | Denial of Service |
| E&OE | Errors And Omissions Excepted |
| E2EG | Ear to Ear Grin |
| EANAB | Equally Attractive Non-Alcoholic Beverage |
| ECP | Excessive Cross Posting |
| ED | Emotionally Disturbed |
| EDP | Emotionally Disturbed Person |
| EG | Evil Grin |
| EGBOK | Everything is Going to Be OK |
| EIF | Exercise In Futility |
| EIP | Everything Is Permissible |
| EMFBI | Excuse Me For Butting In |
| EMSG | email message |
| EOB | End Of Business |
| EOD | End Of Discussion |
| EOD | Explosive Ordnance Disposal |
| EOF | End Of File |
| EOL | End Of Lecture |
| EOM | End Of Message |
| EOT | End Of Thread |
| EPID | Every Person Is Different |
| ESOSL | Endless Snorts Of Stupid Laughter |
| ESP | ESPecially |
| ETA | Estimated Time Of Arrival |
| ETLA | Extended Three Letter Acronym |
| ETOPS | Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim (powerboats) |
| EWAG | Experienced Wild-Ass Guess |
| F2F | Face To Face |
| FA | Fat Admirer, one who prefers a fat sexual/romantic partner |
| FAIK | For All I Know |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Question(s) |
| FCFS | First Come First Served |
| FCOL | For Crying Out Loud |
| FDROTFL | Falling Down Rolling On The Floor Laughing |
| FF | Fist Fucking |
| FFR | For Future Reference |
| FGM | Female Genital Mutilation |
| FIAWOL | Fandom Is A Way Of Life |
| FICCL | Frankly I Couldn't Care Less |
| FIIK | Fuck[ed] If I Know |
| FIIR | fuck[ed] If I Remember |
| FIL | Father In Law |
| FIOFY | Figure It Out For Yourself |
| FIRST | Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams |
| FISH | First In Still Here |
| FITB | Fill In The Blank |
| FLEA | Four Letter Extended Acronym |
| FLT | Fermat's Last Theorem |
| FM | Fibromyalgia |
| FMTYEWTK | Far More Than You Ever Wanted To Know |
| FOAD | Fuck Off And Die |
| FOAF | Friend Of A Friend |
| FOAFOAG | Father Of A Friend Of A Girlfriend |
| FOAG | Father Of A Girlfriend |
| FOD | Finger Of Death |
| FOS | Freedom Of Speech |
| FOT | Full Of Tripe |
| FOTCL | Falling Off The Chair Laughing |
| FRZ | Fruitin' Religious Zealot |
| FSD | Fools Seldom Differ |
| FSDO | For Some Definition Of |
| FSVO | For Some Value Of |
| FTASB | Faster Than A Speeding Bullet |
| FTF | Face To Face |
| FTL | Faster Than Light |
| FTM | For That Matter (or Female To Male trans) |
| FTMP | For The Most Part |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| FTR | For The Record |
| FTS | Fixin' To Start |
| FTSO | Fuck The Skull Of |
| FUBAR | Fucked Up Beyond All [Repair|Recognition] |
| FUD | Fear, Uncertainty, And Doubt |
| FURTB | Full Up Ready To Burst |
| FWIW | For What It's Worth |
| FYA | For Your Amusement |
| FYI | For Your Information |
| FYIV | Fuck You, I'm Vested |
| G | Grin |
| GA | Go Ahead |
| GAC | Get A Clue |
| GAFIA | Get Away From It All |
| GAFIATe | (to) Get Away From It All |
| GAL | Get A Life |
| GBH&K | Great Big Hugs & Kisses |
| GBH&KB | Great Big Hugs & Kisses Back |
| GCD | Greatest Common Divisor |
| GD&R | Grinning, Ducking, and Running (after a smart-ass comment) |
| GD&RF | Grinning Ducking And Running Fast |
| GD&RVVF | Grinning Ducking And Running Very Very Fast |
| GD&W | Grinning Ducking And Weaving |
| GF | Girlfriend |
| GFR | Grim File Reaper |
| GG | Genetic Girl |
| GGN | Gotta Go Now |
| GGP | Gotta Go Pee |
| GHOD | General Heuristic Organizing Device |
| GIF | Graphical Interchange Format |
| GIGO | Garbage In Garbage Out; Garbage In Gospel Out |
| GIWIST | Gee I Wish I'd Said That |
| GJP | Good Job Partner |
| GL | good luck |
| GLBT | Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Trans |
| GLG | Goofy Little Grin |
| GLGH | Good Luck and Good Hunting |
| GMT | Greenwich Mean Time [UK Time] |
| GMTA | Great Minds Think Alike |
| GOAT | Go Away, Troll |
| GOK | God Only Knows |
| GOOML | Get Out Of My Life |
| GOTFIA | Groaning On The Floor In Agony |
| GOWI | Get On With It |
| GPF | General Protection Fault |
| GRQ | Get Rich Quick (a type of spam - compare MMF) |
| GRUIT | Get Real yoU Impudent Thing |
| GS | Golden Shower |
| GTBOS | Glad To Be Of Service |
| GTG | Got To Go |
| GTGN | Got To Go Now |
| GTP | Got To Pee |
| H&K | Hugs & Kisses |
| H2 | How To |
| HAK | Hugs And Kisses |
| HAND | Have A Nice Day |
| HCB | Holy Cow Batman |
| HHGTTG | Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy |
| HHIS | Hanging Head In Shame |
| HHO1/2K | Ha Ha Only Half Kidding |
| HHOJ | Ha Ha Only Joking |
| HHOK | Ha Ha, Only Kidding |
| HHOS | Ha Ha, Only Serious |
| HHVF | Ha Ha, Very Funny |
| HIB__ | Have I Been ___________ |
| HICA | Here It Comes Again |
| HNG | Horny Net Geek |
| HOMPR | Hang On Mobile Phone's Ringing |
| HOPR | Hang On Phone's Ringing |
| HOS | Husband Over Shoulder |
| HOUER | Hanging On yoUr Every Word |
| HOYER | Hanging On Your Every Word |
| HP | Home Page |
| HSF | (variants: H-S-F, H*S*F) Hand-Staple-Forehead (theatrical angst) |
| HSIK | How Should I Know |
| HSP | Highly Sensitive Person |
| HTH | Hope This Helps (often used with HAND) |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language |
| HTTP | HyperText Transfer Protocol |
| HW | HardWare |
| HWNINS | He whose name is not spoken |
| HWP | Height and Weight Proportional (i.e.: "normal" build) |
| HWSNBN | He Who Should Not Be Named |
| HWWNBN | He Who Will Not Be Named |
| IAAA | I Am An Accountant |
| IAAD | I Am A Doctor |
| IAAL | I Am A Lawyer |
| IAC | In Any Case |
| IAE | In Any Event |
| IAGFII | It's All Good Fun Isn't It |
| IAMFI | I Ask Merely For Information |
| IAMTA | I Ask Merely To Annoy |
| IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority |
| IANAA | I Am Not An Accountant |
| IANAC | I Am Not A Crook |
| IANAD | I Am Not A Doctor |
| IANAL | I Am Not A Lawyer |
| IANALBIPOOTV | I Am Not A Lawyer But I Play One On TV |
| IANYM | In A New York Minute |
| IANYS | In A New York Second |
| IAP | Internet Access Provider |
| IARTPFWTSIOWIM | I Am Repeating This Parrot Fashion Without The Slightest Idea Of What It Means |
| IAW | In Accordance With |
| IAWC | In A While Crocodile [usually used to reply to SYLA(cf)] |
| IBC | Inadequate But Cute |
| IBM | Inadequate But Marketable |
| IBTD | I Beg To Differ |
| IC | I See |
| ICB | I Care Because |
| ICBW | I Could Be Wrong |
| ICCL | I Couldn't Care Less |
| ICOCBW | I Could Of Course Be Wrong |
| ICP | Internet Content Provider |
| ICTYBTIHTKY | I Could Tell You But Then I'd Have To Kill You |
| ICUR | I See yoU aRe |
| ICYWC | In Case You Were Curious |
| IDGI | I Don't Get It |
| IDIC | Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations (via Star Trek) |
| IDK | I Don't Know |
| IDTS | I Don't Think So |
| IDTT | I'll Drink To That |
| IERS | International Earth Rotation Service |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force |
| IETGFTP | It's Easier To Get Forgiveness Than Permission |
| IHABICNRWTSF | I Hate Abbreviations Because I Can Never Remember What They Stand For :) |
| IHAFC | I Haven't A Fucking Clue |
| IHNFC | I have No Fucking Clue |
| IHNJ,IJLTS | I Have No Joke, I Just Like To Say... (via David Letterman) |
| IHTBS | It Has To Be Shown |
| IHTFP | I Hate This Fucking Place |
| IIABDFI | If It Ain't Broke Don't Fix It |
| IIANM | If I Am Not Mistaken |
| IINM | If I'm Not Mistaken |
| IIRC | If I Recall/Remember Correctly |
| IITYWIMWYBMAD | If I Tell You What It Means Will You Buy Me A Drink |
| IITYWITIWHTKY | If I Tell You What It Means I Will Have To Kill You |
| IITYWYBAD | If I Tell You, Will You Buy Another Drink |
| IITYWYBMAB | If I Tell You, Will You Buy Me A Beer |
| IJLS | I Just Like Saying |
| IK | I Know |
| IKWUM | I Know What yoU Mean |
| IKWYM | I Know What You Mean |
| ILI | I Like Ike |
| ILICISCOMK | I Laughed; I Cried; I Spilled Coffee/Coke On My Keyboard |
| ILIWAPCT | I Love It When A Plan Comes Together |
| ILTFP | I Love This Place |
| ILU | I Love yoU |
| ILY | I Love You |
| IM | Instant Message |
| IMAO | In My Arrogant Opinion |
| IMBO | In My Biased Opinion |
| IMCDO | In My Conceited Dogmatic Opinion |
| IMCO | In My Considered Opinion |
| IME | In My Experience/Estimation |
| IMHO | In My Humble/Honest Opinion |
| IMMOR | I Make My Own Rules |
| IMNSHO | In My Not So Humble Opinion |
| IMO | In My Opinion |
| IMOBO | In My Own Biased Opinion |
| IMPE | In My Personal/Previous Experience |
| IMPOV | In My Point Of View |
| IMS | I Must Say |
| IMSLTHO | In My Slightly/Somewhat Less Than Humble Opinion |
| IMVHO | In My Very Humble Opinion |
| IMX | In My eXperience (perferred form: IME) |
| INGSI | I'm Not Going To Say It |
| INPO | In No Particular Order |
| INT | I'll Never Tell |
| IOTTMCO | Intuitively Obvious To The Most Casual Observer |
| IOU | I Owe You |
| IOW | In Other Words |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IR | Inter Racial |
| IRC | Internet Relay Chat |
| IRL | In Real Life |
| IROOC | I've Run Out Of Cigarettes |
| IRT | In Reply To, In Regard To |
| ISBAB | I Should Have Brought A Book |
| ISC | I Stand Corrected |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISO | In Search Of |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| ISTM | It Seems To Me |
| ISTR | I Seem To Recall/Remember |
| IT | Information Technology |
| ITAS | It Takes All Sorts |
| ITFA | In The Final Analysis |
| ITMA | Its That Man Again |
| ITMT | In The MeanTime |
| ITPIR | If The Price Is Right |
| ITSFWI | If The Shoe Fits, Wear It |
| ITYM | I Think You Mean |
| IUTHALORFH | I Used To Have A Lot Of Respect For Him/Her |
| IUTKATS | I Used To Know All That Stuff |
| IWBNI | It Would Be Nice If |
| IWIK | I Wish I Knew |
| IYF | In Your Face |
| IYFEG | Insert Your Favourite Ethnic Group |
| IYKWIM | If You Know What I Mean |
| IYKWIMAITYD | If You Know What I Mean And I Think You Do |
| IYSWIM | If You See What I Mean |
| J/K | Just Kidding |
| JAFO | Just Another Fucking Observer |
| JAM | Just A Moment/Minute |
| JAO | Just Another Observer |
| JAPH | Just A Perl Hacker |
| JAS | Just A Second |
| JC | Just Curious |
| JFF | Just For Fun |
| JFTR | Just For The Record |
| JFYI | Just For Your Information |
| JIC | Just In Case |
| JK | Just Kidding |
| JMHO | Just My Humble Opinion |
| JMO | Just My Opinion |
| JMOOC | Just My Opinion Of Course |
| JOOC | Just Out of Curiosity |
| JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| JSYK | Just So You Know |
| JTLYK | Just To Let You Know |
| JTUSK | Just Thought yoU Should Know |
| JTYWTK | Just Thought You Wanted To Know |
| KHYF | Know How You Feel |
| KIA | Know It All |
| KISS | Keep It Simple Stupid |
| KIT | Keep In Touch |
| KITA | kick in the ass |
| KLB | Known Lazy Bastard |
| KMWIH | Kick Me Where It Hurts |
| KMYF | Kiss Me You Fool |
| KNF | kernel normal form |
| KOS | Kids Over Shoulder |
| KOTC | Kiss On The Cheek |
| KOTL | Kiss On The Lips |
| KTCOOTN | Keep This Crap Out Of This Newsgroup |
| KWIM | Know What I Mean |
| KYHOOTW | Keep Your Head Out Of The Water |
| KYHU | Keep Your Head Up |
| L8R | Later |
| LAB&TYD | Life's A Bitch & Then You Die |
| LAB&TYMO | Life's A Bitch And Then You Marry One |
| LALL | Live And Let Live |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LARP | Live Action Role Playing |
| LART | Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool (a.k.a. Clue-by-Four) |
| LDR | Long Distance Relationship |
| LJBF | Let's Just Be Friends |
| LLAP | Live Long And Prosper |
| LLD | Leather Lifestyle Dork |
| LLTA | Lots And Lots Of Thunderous Applause |
| LMA | Leave Me Alone |
| LMAO | Laughing My Ass Off |
| LMC | Lost My Connection |
| LMCOA | Lost My Connection Once Again |
| LMK | Let Me Know |
| LMSO | Laughing My Socks Off |
| LNF | Late Night Food |
| LOL | Laughing Out Loud |
| LPOS | Losing Piece of Shit |
| LSFIAB | Like Shooting Fish In A Barrel |
| LSHIPMP | Laughing So Hard I Peed My Pants |
| LSHIS | Laughed So Hard I Shit |
| LSP | Less Sensitive Person |
| LTBF | Learn To Be Funny |
| LTIP | Laughing 'Til I Puke |
| LTMS | Laughing To MySelf |
| LTMSH | Laughing 'Til My Sides Hurt |
| LTNS | Long Time No See |
| LTNT | Long Time No Type |
| LTR | Long Term Relationship |
| LTUAE | Life, The Universe, And Everything [Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy] |
| LUSER | Loser USER |
| LoTR | Lord of The Rings |
| MAY | Mad About You |
| MAYB | Mad About You Baby |
| MB | Message Board |
| MBR | Master Boot Record |
| MCIBTY | My Computer Is Better Than Yours |
| MEU | (Henry Fowler's) Modern English Usage (OUP, ed. by R.W. Burchfield) |
| MFG | More Friendly Garbage |
| MHBFY | My Heart Bleeds For You |
| MHDC | My Hard Drive Crashed |
| MHM | Members Helping Members |
| MHOTY | My Hat's Off To You |
| MIL | Mother In Law |
| MIPS | Meaningless Information Per Second |
| ML | More Later |
| MLA | Multiple Letter Acronym |
| MMF | Make Money Fast (spam) |
| MOF | Matter Of Fact |
| MOMN | Milk Out My Nose |
| MOOS | Member Of Opposite Sex (usage at Brown U.) |
| MORF | Male OR Female |
| MOS | Member of the Opposite Sex |
| MOSS | Member Of Same Sex (usage at Brown U.) |
| MOTAS | Member Of The Appropriate Sex |
| MOTD | Message Of The Day |
| MOTIS | Member Of The Inappropriate Sex |
| MOTOPS | Member of the Oppositely-Plumbed Sex |
| MOTOS | Member Of The Opposite Sex |
| MOTSS | Member Of The Same Sex |
| MPD | Multiple Personality Disorder |
| MSCEA | My Southern Comfort's Empty Again |
| MSS | Member of the Same Sex |
| MTF | More To Follow (or Male to Female trans) |
| MTFBWY | May The Force Be With You |
| MUNG | Mung Until No Good (recursive acronym in fine old Unix tradition) |
| MYOB | Mind Your Own Business |
| N/M | Never Mind |
| NAGI | Not A Good Idea |
| NANAE | news.admin.net-abuse.email [Usenet newsgroup] |
| NANAU | news.admin.net-abuse.usenet [Usenet newsgroup] |
| NAVY | Never Again Volunteer Yourself |
| NAYY | Not Affiliated, Yada-Yada [origin unknown] |
| NB | Nota Bene [Latin for Note Well; i.e. what follows is important] |
| NBD | No Big Deal |
| NBL | Not Bloody Likely |
| NBTD | Nothing Better To Do |
| NC | Non-Consensual |
| NDM | No Disrespect Meant |
| NERD | National Establishment for Real Dorks |
| NFC | No Fucking Clue |
| NFI | No Fucking Idea |
| NFR | Not Flame Related |
| NFW | no fucking way |
| NG | News Group |
| NHOH | Never Heard Of Her/Him |
| NICBDAT | Nothing Is Certain But Death And Taxes |
| NIDWTC | No I Don't Want To Chat |
| NIH | Not Invented Here |
| NIMBY | Not In My Back Yard |
| NIMTO | Not In My Term Of Office |
| NINO | Nothing In Nothing Out |
| NIT | Not In Therapy |
| NLA | National Leather Association |
| NLI | Not Logged In |
| NM | Never Mind |
| NMI | No Middle Initial |
| NMP | Not My Problem |
| NN | Night Night |
| NNTP | Network News Transfer Protocol |
| NOOTO | Nothing Out Of The Ordinary |
| NOYB | None Of Your Business |
| NOYL | Not On Your Life |
| NP | No Picture [used in the subject title of an email] |
| NP | No Problem |
| NPF | No Problem Found |
| NPLU | Not People Like Us |
| NQA | No Questions Asked |
| NQOS | Not Quite Our Sort |
| NRE | New Relationship Energy |
| NRFPT | not ready for prime time |
| NRN | No Reply Necessary |
| NTG | Not Too Good |
| NTH | No Therapy Helpful |
| NTIBOA | Not That I'm Bitter Or Anything |
| NTIM | Not That It Matters |
| NTIMM | Not That It Matters Much |
| NTL | None The Less/Never The Less |
| NTYMI | Now That You Mention It |
| NUI | Network User Identification |
| NYCTMI | Now You Come To Mention It |
| NYI | Not Yet Implemented |
| NYM | New York Minute |
| NYP | Not Your Problem |
| NoCeM | No See 'eM |
| OATUS | On A Totally Unrelated Subject |
| OAUS | On An Unrelated Subject |
| OB | OBligatory |
| OBE | Overtaken By Events (see OTBE) |
| OBTW | Oh By The Way |
| OD | OverDose; Oh Dear |
| OFS | One Finger Salute [the 'bird'] |
| OIC | Oh I See |
| OMG | Oh My God |
| ONNA | Oh No Not Again |
| ONNTA | Oh No Not That/This Again |
| OO | Over and Out |
| OOC | Out Of Curiosity |
| OOI | Out Of Interest |
| OOSOOM | Out Of Sight Out Of Mind |
| OOTC | Obligatory On Topic Comment |
| OOTD | One Of These Days |
| OOTQ | Out Of The Question |
| OT | Off-Topic |
| OT1H | On The One Hand |
| OTBE | OverTaken By Events |
| OTC | Over The Counter |
| OTD | Out The Door |
| OTF | On The Floor [mad laughter] |
| OTGH | On The Gripping Hand (via "The Mote in God's Eye"; implies multi-valued logic.) |
| OTK | Over The Knee |
| OTL | Out To Lunch |
| OTOH | On The Other Hand |
| OTOOH | On The Other Other Hand |
| OTT | Over The Top |
| OTTH | On The Third Hand |
| OTTOMH | Off The Top Of My Head |
| OTW | On The Whole |
| OTW | One True Way |
| OW | Oh Well |
| OWTTE | Or Words To That Effect |
| P&M | Posted & Mailed |
| PABG | Pack A Big Gun |
| PAW | Parents Are Watching |
| PBM | Play By Mail (games) |
| PCB | Please Call Back |
| PCF | Puritanical Control Freaks |
| PCMCIA | Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms) |
| PD | Public Domain |
| PDA | Public Display of Affection |
| PDG | Pretty Damn Good |
| PDN | Public Data Network |
| PDQ | Pretty Damned Quickly |
| PEM | Privacy Enhanced Mail |
| PEST | Please Excuse Slow Typing |
| PFHOMW | Printed, Framed, and Hanging On My Wall |
| PFY | pimply faced youth |
| PGP | Pretty Good Privacy |
| PHB | Pointy-Haired Boss (Dilbert) |
| PIMP | Pee In My Pants |
| PITA | Pain In The Ass |
| PIV | Penis-In-Vagina (type of sex) |
| PKB | Pot [calling the] Kettle Black |
| PLMK | Please Let Me Know |
| PLMKO | Please Let Me Know Ok |
| PLOKTA | Press Lots Of Keys To Abort |
| PMBI | Pardon My Butting In |
| PMETC | Pardon Me ETC |
| PMFBI | Pardon Me For Butting In |
| PMFJI | Pardon Me For Jumping In |
| PMFJIH | Pardon Me For Jumping In Here |
| PMJI | Pardon My Jumping In |
| PMYMHMMFSWGAD | Pardon Me, You Must Have Mistaken Me For Someone Who Gives A Damn |
| PNG | Persona Non Grata |
| POA | Power Of Attorney |
| POC | Point Of Contact |
| POETS | Piss Off Early Tomorrow's Saturday |
| POLA | Principle Of Least Astonishment |
| POM | Phase Of the Moon |
| POP | Point Of Presence; Post Office Protocol |
| POQADCB | Piss Off Quickly And Don't Come Back |
| POS | Parents Over Shoulder |
| POS | Piece of Shit |
| POSSLQ | Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters |
| POTS | Plain Old Telephone Service/System |
| POV | Point Of View |
| ppl | people |
| PPL | Pretty Please |
| PPP | Point-to-Point Protocol; Petty Pet Peeve |
| PPPP | Previous Paragraph was Polemical Position |
| PS | Post Script |
| PSA | Public Service Announcement |
| PTB | Powers That Be |
| PTMM | Please Tell Me More |
| PTMY | Pleased To Meet You |
| PTMYA | Pleased To Make Your Acquaintance |
| PVFS | Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome |
| PW | Pathetic Wanker; PowWow |
| PhD | Piled Higher and Deeper |
| QED | Quid Erat Demonstrandum; Quite Easily Done |
| QEF | Quod Erat Faciendum (which was to be done) |
| QPQ | Quid Pro Quo |
| RE | REgarding |
| RFC | Request For Comment |
| RFD | Request For Discussion |
| RFM | Reply To Flagged Message |
| RFT | Request For Thinking |
| RHIP | Rank Hath Its Privileges |
| RHPS | Rocky Horror Picture Show |
| RL | Real Life |
| RLC | Rod Length Check |
| RLCO | Real Life COnference |
| RNA | Ring No Answer |
| ROFFNAR | Rolling On the Floor For No Apparent Reason |
| ROFL | Rolling On Floor Laughing |
| ROFLASTC | Rolling On The Floor Laughing And Scaring The Cat |
| ROFLMAOPMP | Rolling On Floor Laughing My Ass Off Peeing My Pants |
| ROFLMHO | Rolling On Floor Laughing My Head Off |
| ROFLWPIMP | Rolling On Floor Laughing Whilst Peeing In My Pants |
| ROTBA | Reality On The Blink Again |
| ROTF | Rolling On The Floor |
| ROTFL | Rolling On The Floor Laughing |
| ROTFLAS | Rolling On The Floor Laughing And Snorting |
| ROTFLMAAOBPO | Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass And Other Body Parts Off |
| ROTFLMAO | Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off |
| ROTFLMAOSTC | Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off And Scaring The Cat |
| ROTFLPMP | Rolling On The Floor Laughing, Peeing My Pants |
| ROTFLSHISMC | Rolling On The Floor Laughing So Hard I Spilt My Coffee |
| ROTFLWM | Rolling On The Floor Laughing, Wetting Myself |
| ROTM | Right On The Money |
| RP | responsible person |
| RPG | Role Playing Game |
| RSN | Real Soon Now |
| RT | Real Time |
| RTFB | Read The [Fucking|Fine] Book |
| RTFM | Read The [Fucking|Fine] Manual |
| RTFMP | Read The [Fucking|Fine] Man Page |
| RTFS | Read The [Fucking|Fine] Source |
| RTFSA | Read the Fucking Stock Answer |
| RTS | Read The Screen |
| RUMF | aRe yoU Male or Female |
| RUMORF | aRe yoU Male Or Female |
| RW | Real World |
| SAD | Seasonal Affective Disorder |
| SAM | Smart Assed Masochist |
| SASS | Short Attention Span Society/Syndrome |
| SCA | Society for Creative Anachronism |
| SCFTHI | Smiley Captioned for the Humor-Impaired |
| SCNR | Sorry; Could Not Resist |
| SD | Sensory Deprivation |
| SEC | SECond (wait a second) |
| SEP | Somebody Else's Problem |
| SFA | Sweet Fuck All |
| SFAIAA | So Far As I Am Aware |
| SFDH | Shit Flows Down Hill |
| SFLA | Stupid Four Letter Acronym |
| SFP | Self-Fulfulling Prophecy |
| SGML | Standardised Generalised Markup Language |
| SHAM | Stay At Home Mom |
| SHID | Slaps Head In Disgust |
| SHTSI | Somebody Had To Say It |
| SIG | Special Interest Group |
| SIIK | Stuffed If I Know |
| SIK | Society for Interactive Killing (LARP) |
| SIL | Sister In Law |
| SITD | Still In The Dark |
| SLIP | Serial Line Interface Protocol |
| SM | Sado-Masochism, Sex Magick |
| SMLSFB | So Many Losers, So Few Bullets |
| SMO | Serious Mode On |
| SMOF | Secret Master Of Fandom (the people who *really* get things done) |
| SMOFF | Serious Mode OFF |
| SMOP | Simple Matter Of Programming |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| SNAFU | Situation Normal, All Fucked Up |
| SNERT | Snot-Nosed Egotistical Rude Teenager |
| SNR | Signal to Noise Ratio |
| SO | Significant Other |
| SOB | Son Of a Bitch |
| SOHB | Sense Of Humour Bypass |
| SOI | Stink On Ice |
| SOL | Shit Outta Luck |
| SOML | Story Of My Life |
| SOP | Standard Operating Procedure |
| SOP | Standing Operational Proceedures |
| SOVS | SomeOne Very Special |
| SOW | Speaking Of Which |
| SPAM | SPiced hAM [refers to unsolicited commercial email] |
| SQO | Some Quantity Of |
| SSC | Safe, Sane, Consensual |
| SSDD | Same Shit, Different Day |
| ST | Such That; Star Trek |
| STBY | Sucks To Be You |
| STD | Sexually Transmitted Disease |
| STFU | Shut The Fuck Up |
| STFW | Search The [Fine|Fucking] Web |
| STI | Sexually Transmitted Infection |
| STL | SomeThing Like |
| STR | Spot The Reference |
| STS | So To Speak |
| SUNOILTY | Shut Up No One Is Listening To You |
| SUS | stupid user syndrome |
| SUT | Stupid User Tricks |
| SW | SoftWare; So What; Says Who |
| SWAG | Scientific Wild Ass Guess |
| SWAHBI | Silly, Wild-Assed Hare-Brained Idea |
| SWAK | Sealed With A Kiss |
| SWALK | Sealed With A Loving Kiss |
| SWDYRTW | Since When Do You Rule The Web |
| SWEIN | So What Else Is New |
| SWMBO | She Who Must Be Obeyed |
| SWYP | So What's Your Problem |
| SYSOP | SYStem OPerator |
| SYT | Sweet Young Thing |
| TAF | That's All Folks |
| TAFN | That's All For Now |
| TANJ | There Ain't No Justice |
| TANSTAAFL | There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch |
| TANSTASQ | There Ain't No Such Thing As A Stupid Question |
| TAWIS | That Ain't What I Said |
| TBC | To Be Continued |
| TBD | to be {decided,determined,done} |
| TBE | To Be Expected |
| TBH | To Be Honest |
| TBYB | Try Before You Buy |
| TC | Telephone Call; Take Care |
| TCB | Taking Care of Business |
| TCD | The Cat's Dead |
| TDD | The Dog's Dead |
| TENS | Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulator |
| TEOTWAWKI | The End Of The World As We Know It |
| TFS | Three Fingered Salute |
| TFTB | Topping From The Bottom |
| TFTHAOT | Thanks For The Help Ahead Of Time |
| TFTT | Thanks For The Thought |
| TG | TransGendered |
| TGAL | Think Globally Act Locally |
| TGIF | Thank God It's Friday |
| TGTF | Thank God Tomorrow's Friday |
| THOK | Thundering Horde Of Kittens |
| TIA | Thanks In Advance |
| TIATLG | Truly I Am The Living God |
| TIC | Tongue In Cheek |
| TIME | Tears In My Eyes |
| TIMTOWTDI | There Is More Than One Way To Do It |
| TINALO | This Is Not A Legal Opinion |
| TINAR | This Is Not A Recommendation |
| TINC | There Is No Cabal (in response to any mention of the Cabal) |
| TINWIS | That Is Not What I Said |
| TIP | To Insure Promptness |
| TIWTGLGG | This Is Where The Goofy Little Grin Goes |
| TJATAW | Truth Justice And The American Way |
| TJATAW | Truth, Justice, And The American Way |
| TLA | Three Letter Acronym |
| TLC | Tender Loving Care |
| TLG | The Living God |
| TM | Thread Mangler |
| TMA | Too Many Abbreviations |
| TMI | Too Much Information |
| TMIKTLIU | The More I Know The Less I Understand |
| TMPTAWWTLO | The Missionary Position Twice a Week With the Lights Out |
| TMTOWTDI | There's More Than One Way To Do it (Perl's motto) |
| TN | TelNet |
| TNOTVS | There's Nothing On TeleVision So |
| TNX | Thanks |
| TOBAL | There Oughta Be A Law |
| TOBG | This Oughta Be Good |
| TOCOTOX | TOo COmplicated TO eXplain |
| TOS | Terms Of Service |
| TOTBAL | There Ought To Be A Law |
| TPAE | The Possibilities Are Endless |
| TPE | Total Power Exchange |
| TPTB | The Powers That Be |
| TRDMC | Tears Running Down My Cheeks |
| TS | Top Secret |
| TS | TransSexual |
| TSOHF | Total Sense Of Humour Failure |
| TSR | Terminate and Stay Resident (program); Totally Stupid Rules |
| TTBE | That's To Be Expected |
| TTBOMK | To The Best Of My Knowledge |
| TTFN | Ta Ta For Now |
| TTL4N | That's The Lot For Now |
| TTM | To The Moderator |
| TTSP | This Too Shall Pass |
| TTUL | Talk/Type To yoU Later |
| TTYL | Talk To You Later |
| TTYRS | Talk To You Real Soon |
| TTYS | Talk To You Soon |
| TTYT | Talk To You Tomorrow |
| TTYTT | To Tell You The Truth |
| TV | Transvestite |
| TWAIN | Technology Without An Important Name |
| TWIAVBP | The World Is a Very Big Place |
| TWIMC | To Whom It May Concern |
| TWIS | That's What I Said |
| TWYAS | That's What You All Say |
| TWYT | That's What You Think |
| TY | Thank You |
| TYVM | Thank You Very Much |
| UALI | Used, Abused, and Loving It |
| U/L | UpLoad |
| UAE | Unrecoverable Application Error |
| UBE | Unsolicited Bulk Email |
| UCE | Unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam) |
| UFLA | Unidentified Four Letter Acronym |
| UL | UpLoad |
| UOK | yoU OK? |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| URLCM | yoU aRe weLCoMe |
| USU | USUally |
| UTC | Under The Counter |
| UTSL | Use The Source, Luke |
| UTT | Under The Table |
| UUCP | Unix-to-Unix CoPy |
| VBG | Very Big Grin |
| VEG | Very Evil Grin |
| VH | Virtual Hug |
| VR | Virtual Reality |
| VRML | Virtual Reality Modelling Language |
| VT | Virtual Time |
| W | With |
| WO | WithOut |
| W8 | Wait |
| W8ING | Waiting |
| WAB | What Another Bill |
| WAEF | When All Else Fails |
| WAG | Wild-Ass Guess |
| WALOC | What A Load Of Crap |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WB | Welcome Back |
| WCAGA | What Comes Around Goes Around |
| WDYMBT | What Do You Mean By That |
| WFM | Works For Me |
| WIBAMU | Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle |
| WIBNI | Wouldn't It Be Nice If |
| WIBNIF | Wouldn't It Be Nice IF |
| WIITWD | Whatever It Is That We Do |
| WIITWDH | Whatever It Is That We Do Here |
| WLOG | without loss of generality |
| WMMOWS | Wash My Mouth Out With Soap |
| WOA | Work Of Art |
| WOB | Waste of Bandwidth |
| WOFTAM | waste of fucking time and money |
| WOM | Word Of Mouth |
| WOMBAT | Waste Of Money Brains And Time |
| WRT | With Regard/Respect To |
| WS | Water Sports |
| WTF | {What,Where,Who,Why} The Fuck |
| WTG | Way To Go (Well Done!) |
| WTH | {What,Where,Who,Why} The Hell |
| WTMI | Way Too Much Information (see TMI) |
| WWW | World Wide Web; World Wide Wait |
| WWWWW | Which Was What We Wanted |
| WYGIWYG | What You Got Is What You Get |
| WYGIWYPF | What You Get Is What You Pay For |
| WYP | What's Your Point? |
| WYSBYGI | What You See Before You Get It |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get |
| WYSOH | Where's Your Sense Of Humour? |
| WYTYSYDG | What You Thought You Saw, You Didn't Get |
| XYZ | eXamine Your Zipper |
| Y2K | The Year 2000 |
| YABA | Yet Another Bloody Acronym |
| YAFA | Yet Another Fucking Abbreviation |
| YAFGE | Yet Another Fucking Growth Experience |
| YAOTM | Yet Another Off-Topic Message |
| YAP | Yet Another Ploy |
| YCLIU | You Can Look It Up |
| YGGM | Your Guess is as Good as Mine |
| YGLT | You're Gonna Love This |
| YGTBK | You've Got To Be Kidding |
| YHBW | You Have Been Warned |
| YHB | You Have Been |
| YHL | You Have Lost |
| YHTBT | You Had To Be There |
| YKINMK | Your Kink Is Not My Kink |
| YKINMKBTOK | You Kink Is Not My Kink But That's OK |
| YKINMKBYKIOK | Your Kink Is Not My Kink But Your Kink Is OK |
| YKINOK | Your Kink Is Not OK (bigotry) |
| YKIOK | Your Kink Is OK |
| YKIOKBINMK | Your Kink Is OK But It's Not My Kink |
| YKIOKIJNMK | Your Kink Is OK, It's Just Not My Kink |
| YKMV | Your Kilometrage May Vary |
| YKWIM | You Know What I Mean |
| YKYATP | You Know You're A Tired Parent |
| YKYBHTLW | You Know You've Been Hacking Too Long When... |
| YKYBRUTLW | You Know You've Been Reading Usenet Too Long When... |
| YKYBSTWTLW | You Know You've Been Surfing The Web Too Long When |
| YKYWT | You Know You Want To |
| YM x | You [mean|misspelled] x (frequently followed by HTH HAND) |
| YMBJ | You Must Be Joking |
| YMMV | Your Mileage May Vary |
| YOYO | You're On Your Own |
| YOYOW | You Own Your Own Words |
| YR | Yeah Right |
| YT | Yours Truly |
| YW | You're Welcome |
| YWSYLS | You Win Some You Lose Some |
| ZN | ZiffNet |
| eom | End Of Message (nearly always seen in lower case) |
| frex | For Example |
