Acronym Definition
An acronym is a word formed by the initial letters of a phrase or title. In the online environment, acronyms are used to conserve time and space. Acronyms are words that are formed by combining parts of other words. 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, IMHO stands for In My Humble Opinion.
A huge collection of acnonyms is presented below that can be used as an Acronym Dictionary. This acronym dictionary can be used as an acronym finder system as well.
- *S* Smile
- 10Q Thank You
- FTR 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 Freaking 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 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
- 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 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 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, Desktop Operating System
- 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
- 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
- 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, 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
- 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
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