BEN'S INCREDIBLE BIG LIST OF INITIALISMS AND ACRONYMS by Nikita Lukianets, LimeJam

1. {B I B LI A }
B E N' S INCR EDI B L E B I G L I ST OF INITI A L I S M S A ND AC RON Y M S

2. *S* *Smile*
10Q Thank You
1FTR One For The Road
24/7 24 hours a day; 7 day s a week
A
A/S/L ? Age/Sex/Location ?
A/S ? Age/Sex ?
AAMOF As A Matter Of Fact
ACK Acknowledg e m e nt
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 Rec all
AFAICT As Far As I Can Tell
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AFAIR As Far As I Reme m b er/Rec all
AFAIUI As Far As I Understa nd It
AFJ April Fools' Joke
AFK Away From The Keybo ard; Away For A Kwickie
AFL AbsoFre a kinLutely
AFOG Another Fucking Opportunity for Growth
AHPF All Hail Pa s s Fail (via MIT)
YA x AICMFP You are x and I claim my five pound s (Britishism; via old newsp a p er
promo)
AISB As I S aid Before
AISE As I S aid Earlier
AISI As I S e e It
AIUI As I Understa nd It
AIW As It Were/Was
AKA Also Known As
AMAP As Much/Many As Pos sible
ANFAWFOS And Now For A Word From Our Spon s or
ANSI American National Stand ard s Institute
AOB Any Other Busine s s
AP Age Play
APAC All Prais e And Credit

3. API Application Progra m Interface
ARPA Advanc e d Res e a rch Projects Agency
AS Another Subje ct
ASAP As Soon As Pos sible
ASCII American Stand ard Code for Information Interch a n g e
ASL Age- S ex- Location
ASNWS A Simple No Would Suffice
ATB All The Be st
ATK At The Keyboard
ATLA Another Three Letter Acronym
ATM At The Moment
ATSL Along The S a m e Lines
ATTN Attention
ATTYOB Anything That Turns You On Baby
AUP Accept able 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 Abse nt Without Official Leav e
AYBABTU All Your Ba s e Are Belong To Us
AYMK As You May Know
AYT Are You There
B
B&D Bond a g e and Discipline
B/ C Bec a u s e
B4 Before
B 4N Bye For Now
BAC By Any Chanc e
BAD Broken As Designe d
BAG Busting A Gut
BAGL Busting A Gut Laug hing
BAK Back At Keyboard
BBB Busy Beyond Belief
BBFN Bye Bye For Now
BBIAB Be Back In A Bit
BBIAS Be Back In A Se c
BBL [I'll] Be Back Later
BBM Big Be a utiful Man
BBR Burnt Beyond Rep air
BBS Bulletin Board Sy st e m / Be Back Soon
BBT Be Back Tomorrow

4. BBW Big Be a utiful Woman
BC Ba s k et Ca s e
BCC Blind Carbon Copy
BCNU Be S e ein' You
BDSM Bond a g e & Discipline, Dominanc e & Sub mis sion, S a d o- Masoc his m
BDSMLMNOP BD SM and whatev er else we might do
BEG Big Evil Grin
BF Boy Friend
BFD Big Fucking Deal
BFH Ba st ard From Hell
BFMI Brute Force and Mas siv e Ignoranc e
BFN Bye For Now
BFNN Bizarre Format with No Name (docume nt format)
BG Big Grin
BI Breidb art Index [the S PAM 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 Se cond
BIAW Back In A While
BIC Be st In Clas s
BIL Brother In Law
BION Believe It Or Not
BIOYIOP Blow It Out Your Input Output Port
BITD Back In The Day
BITD Be ate n It To Death
BK Bec a u s e
BMHATK Banging My Head Against The Keyboard
BMHATW Banging My Head Against The Wall
BMOC Big Man On Campu s
BMTA Brilliant Minds Think Alike
BMTIPG Brilliant Minds Think In Parallel Gutters
BNF Big Name Fan
BOC But Of Cours e
BOF Birds Of a Fe ath er
BOFH Ba st ard Operator From Hell
BOHICA Bend Over, Here It Come s Again
BOHOF Back Of Hand On Foreh e a d
BOS Big Orang e Switch
BOT Back On Topic
BOTEC Back Of The Envelope Calculation
BPD Borderline Person ality Disorder
BRB [I'll] Be Right Back
BRS Big Red Switch
BRT Be Right There
BSG Big Smiling Grin; Broad Swe e ping Generalis ation
BSOD Blue Scre e n of Death (Windows NT, et al.)
BSTS Better S afe Than Sorry

5. 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 Squ are
BTSOOM Be at s 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 Bus Y
BYKT But You Know/Knew That
BYKTA But You Know/Knew That Already
BYOB Bring Your Own Bottle/Booze
C
C&P Copy & Pa st e
C/O Care Of
CADET Can't Add Does n't Even Try
CB Call Back
CB Cha stity Belt
CBT Cock and Ball Torture/Training
CC Carbon Copy
CCWC Can't Cook Won't Cook
CD Cros s Dres s er
CE Creative Editing
CERT Computer Emerg e n cy Re s pon s e Team
CFD Call For Discus sion
CFV Call For Votes
CG Cute Grin
CGI Common Gatew a y Interface
CHOWUR S e e HOW yoU aRe
CHUR S e e How yoU aRe
CIAC Computer Incident Advisory Cap a bility
CIAO goodby e [pronounce d Chow]
CIC Christ I'm Confus e d
CIO Cut It Out
CIS Complete and Irrevoca ble Submis sion

6. CLAB Crying Like A Baby
CLM Career Limiting Move
CMIIW Correct Me If I'm Wrong
CNC Cons e n s u a l Non Cons e nt
CNP Continued [In My] Next Post
CO Clothing Optional
COD Ca s h On Delivery
COTFLGUOAHAHA Crawling On The Floor Laug hing Guts Out And Having A Heart Attack
COTS Commercial Off The Sh elf
CP Corporal Punish m e nt
CPF Can Pigs Fly
CRC Cyclic Redund a n c y Check
CS Cop Shop
CTS Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
CTTD Cute Thing s They Do
CTTOI Come To Think Of It
CTTS Cute Thing s They S a y
CU S e e You
CUL S e e You Later
CUL 8 R S e e yoU LateR
CW Continuou s Wave (the carrier type used for Morse code communication s)
CW Conventional Wisdom
CWYL Chat With You Later
CYA Cover Your Ass
CYA S e e Ya
CYA S e e You Around
CYL S e e You Later
CYT Cute Young Thing
C|N> K quot;Coffee (piped through) Nose, (redirected to) Keybo ardquot;

7. D
D&W Ducking And Weaving
D/L Download
D/S or D/s Dominanc e and Sub mis sion
DADT Don't Ask, Don't Tell
DAP Parents Against Dyslexia :)
DARFC Ducking And Running For Cover
DBA Doing Busine s s As
DBT Dialectical Beh a vior 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 Yours elf
DK Don't Know
DKF Dreade d Koosh Flogg er
DL DownLoa d
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 Pis s e d Myself
DNS Domain Name Sy st e m
DOA Dead On Arrival
DOB Date Of Birth
DOM Dirty Old Man
DOS Disk Operating Sy ste m
DOYC Deity Of Your Choice
DOYKB Down On Your Knee s, Bitch
DQOTD Dumb Question Of The Day
DSW Dick Siz e War
DTA Don't Trust Anybody
DTOKAB Drop To One Knee And Bow
DTP DeskTop Publishing

8. DTRT Do The Right Thing (contrast with DTWT)
DTTAH Don't Try This At Home
DTWT Do The Wrong Thing (contra st with DTRT)
DTYD Drink Till You Drop (party at MIT)
DUCWIC Do YoU S e e What I S e e
DUK Dead Upon Keybo ard
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 S a y
DWISNWID Do What I S a y Not What I Do
DWIW Do What I Want
DWYW Do What You Want
DYE Damn Your Eye s
DYHWIH Do You Hear What I Hear
DYSWIS Do You S e e What I S e e
DoS Denial of S ervice
E
E&OE Errors And Omis sion s Excepted
E 2 EG Ear to Ear Grin
EANAB Equ ally Attractive Non- Alcoholic Bev era g e
ECP Exce s siv e Cros s Posting
ED Emotionally Disturbed
EDP Emotionally Disturbed Person
EG Evil Grin
EGBOK Everything is Going to Be OK
EIF Exercis e In Futility
EIP Everything Is Permis sible
EMFBI Excus e Me For Butting In
EMSG email mes s a g e
EOB End Of Busine s s
EOD End Of Discu s sion
EOD Explosive Ordnanc e Dispos al
EOF End Of File
EOL End Of Lecture
EOM End Of Mes s a g e
EOT End Of Thread
EPID Every Person Is Different
ESOSL Endle s s Snorts Of Stupid Laughter
ESP ES P e ci ally

9. ETA Estimated Time Of Arrival
ETLA Extende d Three Letter Acronym
ETOPS Engine s Turn Or Pa s s e n g er s Swim (powerboat s)
EWAG Experienc e d Wild-Ass Gue s s
F
F2F Fac e To Fac e
FA Fat Admirer, one who prefers a fat sexual/romantic partner
FAIK For All I Know
FAQ Freque ntly 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 Referenc e
FGM Fem ale Genital Mutilation
FIAWOL Fandom Is A Way Of Life
FICCL Frankly I Couldn't Care Les s
FIIK Fuck[ed] If I Know
FIIR fuck[ed] If I Reme mb er
FIL Father In Law
FIOFY Figure It Out For Yours elf
FIRST Forum of Incident Re spon s e and S e curity Team s
FISH First In Still Here
FITB Fill In The Blank
FLEA Four Letter Extended Acronym
FLT Fermat's Last Theorem
FM Fibromy algia
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 Spe e c h
FOT Full Of Tripe
FOTCL Falling Off The Chair Laug hing
FRZ Fruitin' Religious Zealot
FSD Fools Seldom Differ
FSDO For Som e Definition Of
FSVO For Som e Value Of
FTASB Fa st er Than A Spe e ding Bullet
FTF Fac e To Fac e

10. FTL Fa st er Than Light
FTM For That Matter (or Fem al e 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 Fe ar, Uncertainty, And Doubt
FURTB Full Up Re a dy To Burst
FWIW For What It's Worth
FYA For Your Amus e m e nt
FYI For Your Information
FYIV Fuck You, I'm Vested
G
G Grin
GA Go Ahe a d
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 & Kiss e s
GBH&KB Great Big Hugs & Kiss e s Back
GCD Greate st Common Divisor
GD&R Grinning, Ducking, and Running (after a smart- as s comment)
GD&RF Grinning Ducking And Running Fa st
GD&RVVF Grinning Ducking And Running Very Very Fa st
GD&W Grinning Ducking And Weaving
GF Girlfriend
GFR Grim File Re a p er
GG Genetic Girl
GGN Gotta Go Now
GGP Gotta Go Pe e
GHOD General Heuristic Organizing Device
GIF Graphical Interch a n g e Format
GIGO Garb a g e In Garb a g e Out; Garb a g e In Gosp el Out
GIWIST Gee I Wish I'd S aid That
GJP Good Job Partner
GL good luck
GLBT Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Trans
GLG Goofy Little Grin
GLGH Good Luck and Good Hunting

11. 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 spa m - comp are MMF)
GRUIT Get Re al yoU Impudent Thing
GS Golden Show er
GTBOS Glad To Be Of S ervice
GTG Got To Go
GTGN Got To Go Now
GTP Got To Pe e
H
H&K Hugs & Kiss e s
H2 How To
HAK Hugs And Kiss e s
HAND Have A Nice Day
HCB Holy Cow Batm a n
HHGTTG Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy
HHIS Hanging Head In Sh a m e
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 Come s Again
HNG Horny Net Geek
HOMPR Hang On Mobile Phone' s Ringing
HOPR Hang On Phone' s Ringing
HOS Husb a n d Over Shoulder
HOUER Hanging On yoUr Every Word
HOYER Hanging On Your Every Word
HP Home Pa g e
HSF (variants: H-S- F, H*S*F) Hand- Staple- Foreh e a d (theatrical ang st)
HSIK How Should I Know
HSP Highly Se n sitive Person
HTH Hope This Helps (often used with HAND)
HTML HyperText Markup Langu a g e

12. HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol
HW HardWare
HWNINS He whos e name is not spoken
HWP Height and Weight Proportional (i.e.: quot;normalquot; build)
HWSNBN He Who Should Not Be Named
HWWNBN He Who Will Not Be Name d
I
IAAA I Am An Accountant
IAAD I Am A Doctor
IAAL I Am A Lawyer
IAC In Any Ca s e
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 Assign e d Numbers Authority
IANAA I Am Not An Accounta nt
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 S e cond
IAP Internet Acce s s Provider
IARTPFWTSIOWIM I Am Repe ating This Parrot Fa s hion Without The Slighte st Idea Of What
It Mean s
IAW In Accorda nc e With
IAWC In A While Crocodile [usually used to reply to SYLA(cf)]
IBC Inadeq u at e But Cute
IBM Inadeq u at e But Marketable
IBTD I Beg To Differ
IC I See
ICB I Care Bec a u s e
ICBW I Could Be Wrong
ICCL I Couldn't Care Les s
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 S e e yoU aRe
ICYWC In Ca s e You Were Curious
IDGI I Don't Get It
IDIC Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations (via Star Trek)

13. IDK I Don't Know
IDTS I Don't Think So
IDTT I'll Drink To That
IERS International Earth Rotation S ervice
IETF Internet Engine ering Task Force
IETGFTP It's Ea sier To Get Forgivene s s Than Permis sion
IHABICNRWTSF I Hate Abbreviations Bec a u s e I Can Never Reme m b er What They Stand
For :)
IHAFC I Haven't A Fucking Clue
IHNFC I hav e No Fucking Clue
IHNJ,IJLTS I Have No Joke, I Just Like To S a y... (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 Rec all/Rememb er Correctly
IITYWIMWYBMAD If I Tell You What It Mean s Will You Buy Me A Drink
IITYWITIWHTKY If I Tell You What It Mean s 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 S a ying
IK I Know
IKWUM I Know What yoU Mean
IKWYM I Know What You Mean
ILI I Like Ike
ILICISCOMK I Laug h e d; I Cried; I Spilled Coffee/Coke On My Keyboard
ILIWAPCT I Love It When A Plan Come s Together
ILTFP I Love This Place
ILU I Love yoU
ILY I Love You
IM Instant Mes s a g e
IMAO In My Arrogant Opinion
IMBO In My Bia s e d Opinion
IMCDO In My Conceited Dogm atic Opinion
IMCO In My Considered Opinion
IME In My Experience/Estimation
IMHO In My Humble/Hone st Opinion
IMMOR I Make My Own Rules
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
IMOBO In My Own Bia s e d Opinion
IMPE In My Person al/Previous Experienc e
IMPOV In My Point Of View
IMS I Must S a y
IMSLTHO In My Slightly/Somewh at Les s Than Humble Opinion
IMVHO In My Very Humble Opinion
IMX In My eXperience (perferred form: IME)

14. INGSI I'm Not Going To S a y It
INPO In No Particular Order
INT I'll Never Tell
IOTTMCO Intuitively Obvious To The Most Ca s u al Observer
IOU I Owe You
IOW In Other Words
IP Internet Protocol
IR Inter Racial
IRC Internet Relay Chat
IRL In Re al Life
IROOC I've Run Out Of Cigarettes
IRT In Reply To, In Reg ard To
ISBAB I Should Have Brought A Book
ISC I Stand Corrected
ISDN Integrated Service s Digital Network
ISO In S e arch Of
ISP Internet S ervice Provider
ISTM It S e e m s To Me
ISTR I S e e m To Rec all/Rememb er
IT Information Technology
ITAS It Take s 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 Re s p e ct 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 Fac e
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 Se e What I Mean
J
J/K Just Kidding
JAFO Just Another Fucking Observer
JAM Just A Moment/Minute
JAO Just Another Observer
JAPH Just A Perl Hacker

15. JAS Just A Se cond
JC Just Curious
JFF Just For Fun
JFTR Just For The Record
JFYI Just For Your Information
JIC Just In Ca s e
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 Photogra phic 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

16. K
KHYF Know How You Feel
KIA Know It All
KISS Keep It Simple Stupid
KIT Keep In Touch
KITA kick in the as s
KLB Known Lazy Ba st ard
KMWIH Kick Me Where It Hurts
KMYF Kiss Me You Fool
KNF kernel normal form
KOS Kids Over Shoulder
KOTC Kiss On The Che ek
KOTL Kiss On The Lips
KTCOOTN Keep This Crap Out Of This News group
KWIM Know What I Mean
KYHOOTW Keep Your Head Out Of The Water
KYHU Keep Your Head Up
L
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 Re a djustme nt Tool (a.k.a. Clue- by- Four)
LDR Long Distanc e Relations hip
LJBF Let's Just Be Friends
LLAP Live Long And Prosp er
LLD Leather Lifestyle Dork
LLTA Lots And Lots Of Thunderou s Applau s e
LMA Leav e Me Alone
LMAO Laughing My Ass Off
LMC Lost My Connection
LMCOA Lost My Connection Once Again

17. LMK Let Me Know
LMSO Laughing My Sock s 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 Pee d My Pant s
LSHIS Laugh e d So Hard I Shit
LSP Les s Se n sitive Person
LTBF Learn To Be Funny
LTIP Laughing 'Til I Puke
LTMS Laughing To MyS elf
LTMSH Laughing 'Til My Side s Hurt
LTNS Long Time No S e e
LTNT Long Time No Type
LTR Long Term Relations hip
LTUAE Life, The Univers e, And Everything [Hitch- Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy]
LUSER Loser US ER
LoTR Lord of The Ring s
M
MAY Mad About You
MAYB Mad About You Baby
MB Mes s a g e Board
MBR Master Boot Record
MCIBTY My Computer Is Better Than Yours
MEU (Henry Fowler's) Modern English Usa g e (OUP, ed. by R.W. Burchfield)
MFG More Friendly Garb a g e
MHBFY My Heart Bleed s For You
MHDC My Hard Drive Cra s h e d
MHM Members Helping Members
MHOTY My Hat's Off To You
MIL Mother In Law
MIPS Meaningle s s Information Per S e cond
ML More Later
MLA Multiple Letter Acronym
MMF Make Money Fa st (spa m)
MOF Matter Of Fact
MOMN Milk Out My Nose
MOOS Member Of Opposite S ex (us a g e at Brown U.)
MORF Male OR Fem al e
MOS Member of the Opposite Sex
MOSS Member Of S a m e S ex (usa g e at Brown U.)

18. MOTAS Member Of The Appropriate S ex
MOTD Mes s a g e Of The Day
MOTIS Member Of The Inappropriate S ex
MOTOPS Member of the Oppositely- Plumbe d S ex
MOTOS Member Of The Opposite S ex
MOTSS Member Of The S a m e S ex
MPD Multiple Person ality Disorder
MSCEA My South ern Comfort's Empty Again
MSS Member of the S a m e S ex
MTF More To Follow (or Male to Fem al e trans)
MTFBWY May The Force Be With You
MUNG Mung Until No Good (recursive acronym in fine old Unix tradition)
MYOB Mind Your Own Busine s s
N
N/M Never Mind
NAGI Not A Good Idea
NANAE news. admin.net- abu s e. e m ail [Usenet news group]
NANAU news. admin.net- abu s e.u s e n et [Usenet news group]
NAVY Never Again Volunteer Yours elf
NAYY Not Affiliated, Yada- Yad a [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- Cons e n s u al
NDM No Disre sp e ct Meant
NERD National Esta blishm e nt for Re al 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 Taxe s
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 Ass ociation
NLI Not Logg ed In

19. 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 Busine s s
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 Que stions Asked
NQOS Not Quite Our Sort
NRE New Relations hip Energy
NRFPT not ready for prime time
NRN No Reply Nece s s a ry
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 Les s/Never The Les s
NTYMI Now That You Mention It
NUI Network User Identification
NYCTMI Now You Come To Mention It
NYI Not Yet Impleme nted
NYM New York Minute
NYP Not Your Problem
NoCeM No Se e 'eM

20. O
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 OverDos e; Oh Dear
OFS One Finger S alute [the 'bird']
OIC Oh I S e e
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 Comme nt
OOTD One Of The s e Days
OOTQ Out Of The Que stion
OT Off-Topic
OT1H On The One Hand
OTBE OverTake n By Events
OTC Over The Counter
OTD Out The Door
OTF On The Floor [mad laughter]
OTGH On The Gripping Hand (via quot;The Mote in God's Eyequot;; 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

21. P
P&M Posted & Mailed
PABG Pa ck A Big Gun
PAW Parents Are Watching
PBM Play By Mail (game s)
PCB Ple a s e Call Back
PCF Puritanical Control Fre ak s
PCMCIA Person al Computer Memory Card International Associ ation (People Can't
Memorize Computer Industry Acronym s)
PD Public Domain
PDA Public Display of Affection
PDG Pretty Damn Good
PDN Public Data Network
PDQ Pretty Damned Quickly
PEM Privacy Enh a n c e d Mail
PEST Ple a s e Excus e Slow Typing
PFHOMW Printed, Frame d, and Hanging On My Wall
PFY pimply faced youth
PGP Pretty Good Privacy
PHB Pointy- Haired Bos s (Dilbert)
PIMP Pe e In My Pant s
PITA Pain In The Ass
PIV Penis- In-Vagina (type of sex)
PKB Pot [calling the] Kettle Black
PLMK Ple a s e Let Me Know
PLMKO Ple a s e Let Me Know Ok
PLOKTA Pre s s 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 Som e o n e Who Give s A
Damn
PNG Person a Non Grata
POA Power Of Attorney
POC Point Of Contact
POETS Pis s Off Early Tomorrow's S aturda y
POLA Principle Of Lea st Astonish m e nt
POM Ph a s e Of the Moon
POP Point Of Pre s e n c e; Post Office Protocol
POQADCB Pis s Off Quickly And Don't Come Back

22. POS Parents Over Shoulder
POS Piece of Shit
POSSLQ Person of the Opposite Sex Sh aring Living Quarters
POTS Plain Old Telephone Service/Sy ste m
POV Point Of View
ppl people
PPL Pretty Ple a s e
PPP Point- to-Point Protocol; Petty Pet Peev e
PPPP Previous Para gra p h was Polemical Position
PS Post Script
PSA Public S ervice Announc e m e nt
PTB Powers That Be
PTMM Ple a s e Tell Me More
PTMY Ple a s e d To Meet You
PTMYA Ple a s e d To Make Your Acquaintanc e
PVFS Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome
PW Pathetic Wanker; PowWow
PhD Piled Higher and Deeper
Q
QED Quid Erat Demonstrandum; Quite Ea sily Done
QEF Quod Erat Faciendum (which was to be done)
QPQ Quid Pro Quo
R
RE REg arding
RFC Reque st For Comment
RFD Reque st For Discu s sion
RFM Reply To Flag g e d Mes s a g e
RFT Reque st For Thinking
RHIP Rank Hath Its Privilege s
RHPS Rocky Horror Picture Show
RL Re al Life
RLC Rod Length Check
RLCO Re al Life COnferenc e
RNA Ring No Answer

23. ROFFNAR Rolling On the Floor For No Apparent Re a s o n
ROFL Rolling On Floor Laug hing
ROFLASTC Rolling On The Floor Laug hing And Sc aring The Cat
ROFLMAOPMP Rolling On Floor Laug hing My Ass Off Peeing My Pants
ROFLMHO Rolling On Floor Laug hing My Head Off
ROFLWPIMP Rolling On Floor Laug hing Whilst Peeing In My Pant s
ROTBA Re ality On The Blink Again
ROTF Rolling On The Floor
ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laug hing
ROTFLAS Rolling On The Floor Laug hing And Snorting
ROTFLMAAOBPO Rolling On The Floor Laug hing My Ass And Other Body Parts Off
ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laug hing My Ass Off
ROTFLMAOSTC Rolling On The Floor Laug hing My Ass Off And Sc aring The Cat
ROTFLPMP Rolling On The Floor Laug hing, Pe eing My Pant s
ROTFLSHISMC Rolling On The Floor Laug hing So Hard I Spilt My Coffee
ROTFLWM Rolling On The Floor Laug hing, Wetting Myself
ROTM Right On The Money
RP respon sible person
RPG Role Playing Game
RSN Re al Soon Now
RT Re al Time
RTFB Re a d The [Fucking|Fine] Book
RTFM Re a d The [Fucking|Fine] Manual
RTFMP Re a d The [Fucking|Fine] Man Pa g e
RTFS Re a d The [Fucking|Fine] Source
RTFSA Re a d the Fucking Stock Answer
RTS Re a d The Scre e n
RUMF aRe yoU Male or Fem al e
RUMORF aRe yoU Male Or Fem al e
RW Re al World
S
SAD S e a s o n al Affective Disorder
SAM Sm art Ass e d Masoc hist
SASS Short Attention Sp a n Society/Syndrome
SCA Society for Creative Anachronis m

24. SCFTHI Smiley Captioned for the Humor- Impaired
SCNR Sorry; Could Not Re sist
SD S en s ory Deprivation
SEC S EC ond (wait a second)
SEP Som e b ody Else's Problem
SFA Swe et Fuck All
SFAIAA So Far As I Am Aware
SFDH Shit Flows Down Hill
SFLA Stupid Four Letter Acronym
SFP S elf- Fulfulling Prophe cy
SGML Stand ardis e d Generalis e d Markup Langu a g e
SHAM Stay At Home Mom
SHID Slap s Head In Disgu st
SHTSI Som e b ody Had To S a y It
SIG Spe ci al Interest Group
SIIK Stuffed If I Know
SIK Society for Interactive Killing (LARP)
SIL Sister In Law
SITD Still In The Dark
SLIP S erial Line Interface Protocol
SM S a d o- Masoc his m, Sex Magick
SMLSFB So Many Losers, So Few Bullets
SMO S erious Mode On
SMOF S e cret Master Of Fandom (the people who *really* get things done)
SMOFF S erious Mode OFF
SMOP Simple Matter Of Progra mming
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNAFU Situation Normal, All Fucked Up
SNERT Snot- Nosed Egotistical Rude Teen a g er
SNR Sign al to Noise Ratio
SO Significant Other
SOB Son Of a Bitch
SOHB S en s e Of Humour Bypa s s
SOI Stink On Ice
SOL Shit Outta Luck
SOML Story Of My Life
SOP Stand ard Operating Procedure
SOP Standing Operational Proce e dure s
SOVS Som eOn e Very Spe cial
SOW Spe a king Of Which
SPAM S Pice d hAM [refers to unsolicited commercial email]
SQO Som e Quantity Of
SSC S afe, S a n e, Cons e n s u al
SSDD S a m e Shit, Different Day
ST Such That; Star Trek
STBY Suck s To Be You
STD S exu ally Trans mitted Dise a s e
STFU Shut The Fuck Up

25. STFW S e arch The [Fine|Fucking] Web
STI S exu ally Trans mitted Infection
STL Som eT hing Like
STR Spot The Referenc e
STS So To Spe a k
SUNOILTY Shut Up No One Is Listening To You
SUS stupid user syndrome
SUT Stupid User Tricks
SW SoftWare; So What; S a y s Who
SWAG Scientific Wild Ass Gue s s
SWAHBI Silly, Wild-Ass e d Hare- Brained Idea
SWAK S e al e d With A Kiss
SWALK S e al e d With A Loving Kiss
SWDYRTW Since When Do You Rule The Web
SWEIN So What Else Is New
SWMBO Sh e Who Must Be Obeyed
SWYP So What's Your Problem
SYSOP SY St e m OPerator
SYT Swe et Young Thing
T
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 S aid
TBC To Be Continued
TBD to be {decided,determined,done}
TBE To Be Expected
TBH To Be Hone st
TBYB Try Before You Buy
TC Telephone Call; Take Care
TCB Taking Care of Busine s s
TCD The Cat's Dead
TDD The Dog's Dead

26. TENS Trans cut a n e o u s Electrical Nerve Stimulator
TEOTWAWKI The End Of The World As We Know It
TFS Three Fingered S alute
TFTB Topping From The Bottom
TFTHAOT Thank s For The Help Ahe a d Of Time
TFTT Thank s For The Thought
TG Trans G e nd ere d
TGAL Think Globally Act Locally
TGIF Thank God It's Friday
TGTF Thank God Tomorrow's Friday
THOK Thundering Horde Of Kittens
TIA Thank s In Advanc e
TIATLG Truly I Am The Living God
TIC Tongue In Che ek
TIME Tears In My Eye s
TIMTOWTDI There Is More Than One Way To Do It
TINALO This Is Not A Leg al Opinion
TINAR This Is Not A Recomm e n d ation
TINC There Is No Cab al (in respon s e to any mention of the Cab al)
TINWIS That Is Not What I S aid
TIP To Insure Promptne s s
TIWTGLGG This Is Where The Goofy Little Grin Goe s
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 Les s I Understa nd
TMPTAWWTLO The Mission ary 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 Thank s
TOBAL There Oughta Be A Law
TOBG This Oughta Be Good
TOCOTOX TOo COmplicated TO eXplain
TOS Terms Of S ervice
TOTBAL There Ought To Be A Law
TPAE The Pos sibilities Are Endle s s
TPE Total Power Exch a n g e
TPTB The Powers That Be
TRDMC Tears Running Down My Cheek s
TS Top S e cret
TS Trans S e x u al
TSOHF Total S en s e Of Humour Failure

27. TSR Terminate and Stay Re sident (program); Totally Stupid Rule s
TTBE That's To Be Expected
TTBOMK To The Be st Of My Knowledg e
TTFN Ta Ta For Now
TTL4N That's The Lot For Now
TTM To The Moderator
TTSP This Too Sh all Pa s s
TTUL Talk/Type To yoU Later
TTYL Talk To You Later
TTYRS Talk To You Re al Soon
TTYS Talk To You Soon
TTYT Talk To You Tomorrow
TTYTT To Tell You The Truth
TV Transv e stite
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 S aid
TWYAS That's What You All S a y
TWYT That's What You Think
TY Thank You
TYVM Thank You Very Much
U
UALI Used, Abus e d, and Loving It
U/L UpLoad
UAE Unrecov era ble Application Error
UBE Unsolicited Bulk Email
UCE Unsolicited commercial e- mail (spa m)
UFLA Unidentified Four Letter Acronym
UL UpLoad
UOK yoU OK?
URL Uniform Re source Locator
URLCM yoU aRe weLCoMe
USU USU ally
UTC Under The Counter
UTSL Use The Source, Luke
UTT Under The Table
UUCP Unix-to-Unix CoPy

28. V
VBG Very Big Grin
VEG Very Evil Grin
VH Virtual Hug
VR Virtual Re ality
VRML Virtual Re ality Modelling Langu a g e
VT Virtual Time
W
W With
WO WithOut
W8 Wait
W8ING Waiting
WAB What Another Bill
WAEF When All Else Fails
WAG Wild-Ass Gue s s
WALOC What A Load Of Crap
WAN Wide Area Network
WB Welcome Back
WCAGA What Come s Around Goe s 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 Whatev er It Is That We Do
WIITWDH Whatev er It Is That We Do Here
WLOG without loss of generality
WMMOWS Wash My Mouth Out With So a p
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 Reg ard/Res p e ct To
WS Water Sports
WTF {What,Where,Who,Why} The Fuck

29. 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 S e e Before You Get It
WYSIWYG What You S e e Is What You Get
WYSOH Where's Your S e n s e Of Humour?
WYTYSYDG What You Thought You S aw, You Didn't Get
X
XYZ eXamine Your Zipper
Y
Y 2K The Year 2000
YABA Yet Another Bloody Acronym
YAFA Yet Another Fucking Abbreviation
YAFGE Yet Another Fucking Growth Experienc e
YAOTM Yet Another Off-Topic Mes s a g e
YAP Yet Another Ploy
YCLIU You Can Look It Up
YGGM Your Gue s s is as Good as Mine
YGLT You're Gonna Love This
YGTBK You've Got To Be Kidding
YHBW You Have Bee n Warned
YHB You Have Bee n
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

30. YKIOKIJNMK Your Kink Is OK, It's Just Not My Kink
YKMV Your Kilometrag e 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 Re a ding 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 [mea n|miss p elled] x (frequently followed by HTH HAND)
YMBJ You Must Be Joking
YMMV Your Mileag e May Vary
YOYO You're On Your Own
YOYOW You Own Your Own Words
YR Yea h Right
YT Yours Truly
YW You're Welcome
YWSYLS You Win Som e You Lose Som e
Z
ZN ZiffNet
eom End Of Mes s a g e (nearly alway s se e n in lower ca s e)
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