ACRONYM-ical words

Definitions of Acronym

Acronyms are words that are formed by combining parts of other words. 
An acronym is a word formed by the initial letters of a phrase or title. 

Acronyms are used to conserve time and space. 

For instance, modem is derived from MODulator / DEModulator. Often these are the first letters of a longer phrase. 

For instance, BTW is the acronym for By The Way. 


A huge collection of acronyms is presented below that can be used as an Acronym Dictionary.

Funny Alphabets

·        *S*  Smile

·        *10Q*  Thank You

·        *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 – Abso Freakin Lutely

·        AFOG - Another Freaking Opportunity for Growth

·        AHPF  - All Hail Pass Fail (via MIT)

·        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 Freakin' 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 Generalization

·        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

·        C|N>K "Coffee (piped through) Nose, (redirected to) Keyboard"

·        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

·        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 Freakin'

·        DIM Do - It Myself

·        DIY Do - It Yourself

·        DK - Don't Know

·        DKF - Dreaded Koosh Flogger

·        DL - Download

·        DLG - Devilish Little Grin

·        DLTDHYITAOYWO - Don’t 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 - Denial of Service, Desktop Operating System

·        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

·        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 Fast Food, Fast Forward, Firefox Browser

·        FFR For Future Reference

·        FGM Female Genital Mutilation

·        FIAWOL Fandom Is A Way Of Life

·        FICCL Frankly I Couldn't Care Less

·        FIIK Freaked If I Know

·        FIIR Freaked 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 Frequency Modulation, Finance Management, Finance Minister

·        FMTYEWTK Far More Than You Ever Wanted To Know

·        FOAD Freak Off And Die, Fetal Origins of Adult Disease

·        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

·        FTR One For The Road

·        FTS Fixin' To Start

·        FTSO Figure That Stuff Out

·        FUBAR Fouled Up Beyond All 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 Freakin' 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

·        GOTW – Genius of the world

·        GOTFIA Groaning On The Floor In Agony

·        GOWI Get On With It

·        GPF General Protection Fault

·        GR8 - Great

·        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, HSF) Hand-Staple-Forehead (theatrical angst)

·        HSIK How Should I Know

·        HSP Highly Sensitive Person

·        HTH Hope This Helps (often used with HAND)

·        HTML Hyper-Text Markup Language

·        HTTP Hyper-Text 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

·        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

·        YA x AICMFP You are x and I claim my five pounds

·        ZS – Zero Size, Zed Security

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