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List of Interet abbreviations

I have (hopefully) used the fairly standard notation of capitalizing the letters in the "definitions" to indicate which letters correspond to the letters in the acronyms.

Jump to acronyms beginning with:

numbers and symbols, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z.
 
$0.02 Throwing in your two cents worth Back to Top
<eg> evil grin
<g> grin
<veg> very evil grin
1FTR One for the road
24/7 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
4U2 For You Too
 
AA Alcoholics Anonymous; Travel club - Automobile Association Back to Top
AAA Travel club - American/Australian Automobile Association
AAAAA Travel club for alcoholics, American Association Against Acronym Abuse
AAMOF As A Matter Of Fact
ACRONYM Abbreviated Coded Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning
ADN Any Day Now
AFAIC As Far As I'm Concerned
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AFAIUI As Far As I Understand It
AFAYC As Far As You're Concerned
AFK Away From Keyboard (person is away, example: AFKnick, or nickAFK)
AISB As I Said Before
AISI As I See It
AIW As It Were/Was
AKA Also Known As
AMAP As Much/Many As Possible
AMF Adios Mother Fucker; Adios My Friend
ANFAWFOS A Now For A Word From Our Sponsor
ANFSCD And Now For Something Completely Different ...
APAC All Praise And Credit
ASAFP As Soon As Fucking Possible
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ATB All The Best
ATM At The Moment; Asynchronous Transfer Mode; Automated Teller Machine
ATLA Another Three Letter Acronym
ATTN Attention
ATTYOB Anything That Turns You On Baby
AWCIGO And Where Can I Get One
AWGTHTGTATA Are We Going To Have To Go Through All This Again?
AWGTHTGTTA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again?
AWHFY Are We Having Fun Yet?
AYT Are You There?
 
B/C BeCause Back to Top
B4 Before
B4N Bye for Now
BAC By Any Chance
BAD Broken As Designed
BAMF Bad Assed Mother Fucker
BBFN Bye Bye For Now
BBIAB Be Back In A Bit
BBIAF Be Back In A Few
BBL Be Back Later
BBR Burnt Beyond Repair
BBS Bulletin Board System
BC Basket Case
BCC Blind Carbon Copy
BCNU Be seein' you! (saying goodbye)
BIOYA Blow It Out Your Ass
BF BoyFriend or Best Friend (make sure the other person knows which one)
BFD Big Fucking Deal
BFG Big Friendly Giant
BFI Brute Force and Ignorance; Bunch of Fucking Idiots
BFMI Brute Force and Massive Ignorance
BFN Bye For Now
BIOS Basic I/O System
BION Believe It Or Not
BIOYIOP Blow It Out Your I/O Port
BITD Beaten It To Death
BK Because
BMF Bad Mother Fucker
BMOC Big Man On Campus
BMTIPG Brilliant Minds Think In Parallel Gutters
BNF Big Name Fan
BOC But Of Course
BOF Birds Of a Feather
BOFH Bastard [system] Operator From Hell; Big Ordnance, Fucking Heavy
BOHICA Bend Over, Here It Comes Again!
BOL Bursts Out Laughing
BOS Big Orange Switch
BOT Back On Topic
BOTEC Back Of The Envelope Calculation
BRB Be Right Back
BRS Big Red Switch
BS Bull Shit (Bachelor Degree)
BSEG Big Shit Eating Grin
BSG Broad Sweeping Generalization; Big Smiling Grin
BSOD Blue Screen Of Death (a kind of error message reported by Windows NT, at which point the computer either locks up or is automatically rebooted; nasty)
BTA But Then Again (in response to IOW)
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
BTSOOM Beats The Shit Out Of Me
BTW By The Way
BUAF Butt Ugly ASCII Font
BUAG Butt Ugly ASCII Graphic
BWQ Buzz Word Quotient
BY BusY
BYKT But You Knew That
BYKTA But You Knew That Already
BYOB Bring Your Own Booze/Bottle
 
C/O in Care Of (for sending mail) Back to Top
CADET Cant Add, Doesn't Even Try
CB Call Back
CC Carbon Copy
CE Creative Editing
CF Charlie Foxtrot; Cluster Fuck (meaning similar to SNAFU)
CFD Call For Discussion
CFV Call For Vote
CHOWUR See HOW yoU aRe
CHUR See How yoU aRe
CIC Christ, I'm Confused
CIO Cut It Out
CIS CompuServe Information Service
CLAB Crying Like A Baby
CLI Command Line Interface
CMIIW Correct Me If I'm Wrong
CO COnference
COD Cash On Delivery (when receiving mail)
COTFLGOHAHA Crawling On The Floor Laughing Guts Out and Having A Heart Attack
CPF Can Pigs Fly?
CRAFT Cant Remember A Fucking Thing
CRPG Character (or computer) Role Playing Game
CRS Can't Remember Shit
CS Cop Shop (police station)
CTTD Cute Things They Do
CTTS Cute Things They Say
CU See yoU (good bye)
CUA Commonly Used Acronym(s); Common User Access
CUL See yoU Later
CUL8ER See yoU LatER
CUL8R See yoU LateR
CUL8TR See yoU LateR
CWYL Chat With You Later
CYA Cover Your Ass
CYL See You Later
 
D&C Duck and Cover - a popular 1950s song in dedication to the atomic bomb (and its possible attack) Back to Top
D/L Download, transmit to you
DAP Parents Against Dyslexia
DARCFC Ducking And Running For Cover
DBA Doing Business As
DBN Doing Business, NOT
DETLA Double Extended Three Letter Acronym
DH Dear Husband (also Dear Hubby, Duh Hubby, Dick Head)
DIIK Damned If I Know
DIIN Damned If I kNow
DILLIGAF Does It Look Like I Give A Fuck?
DILLIGAFF Do I Look Like I Give a Flying Fuck?
DITUIHIBMSL? Did I Tell yoU I Hate IBM'S Lately?
DITUILIBMSL? Did I Tell yoU I Love IBM'S Lately?
DK Don't Know
DKU Drop Kick Ugly
DL or D/L Download
DLG Devilish Little Grin
DMA Direct Memory Access (allows devices to read/write RAM without asking the processor first)
DNA Did Not Answer
DNPM Darn Near Pissed Myself
DOA Dead On Arrival
DOB Date/Day Of Birth
DOM Dirty Old Man
DRA Don't Recognize Acronyms
DTD Document Type Definition
DTOKAB Drop To One Knee And Blow
DTP DeskTop Publishing
DTRT Do The Right Thing
DUCWIC Do You See What I See
DUK Dead Upon Keyboard
DVD Digital Versatile Disc (formerly: Digital Video Disc)
DWIM Do What I Mean
DWIMC Do What I Mean, Correctly
DWIMNWIS Do What I Mean, Not What I Say
DYE Damn Your Eyes!
DYHWIH Do You Hear What I Hear
DYSWIS Do You See What I See
 
E2EG Ear to Ear Grin Back to Top
ED Emotionally Disturbed
EDP Emotionally Disturbed Person
EIDE Extended IDE (which doesn't really make much sense; the successor to IDE allowing bigger drives)
EISA Extended Industry Standard Architecture
EOB End Of Business
EOD End Of Discussion
EOF End Of File
EOL End Of Lecture
EOT End Of Thread (i.e., don't reply to this message)
ES&D Eat Shit & Die
ESAD Eat Shit And Die
ESADMF Eat Shit And Die, Mother Fucker
ESAL Eat Shit And Live
ESOSL Endless Snorts of Stupid Laughter
ESP ESPecially
ETA Estimated Time of Arrival
ETLA Extended Three Letter Acronym
 
F2F Face To Face Back to Top
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FAQL Frequently Asked Questions List
FART Fathers Against Radical Teenagers
FATT Funny At The Time
FCFS First Come, First Served
FCOL For Crying Out Loud
FDROTFL Falling Down Rolling On The Floor Laughing
FFRD Flying Fuck in a Rolling Donut (I don't give a....)
FHS Friendly HandShake
FIGJAM Fuck I'm Good, Just Ask Me
FIGMO Fuck It, Got My Orders
FIIK Fucked If I Know!
FIIN Fucked If I kNow!
FISH First In, Still Here
FITB Fill In The Blank
FLA Four/Five Letter Acronym (ETLA or DETLA are preferred because FLA isn't an FLA)
FMH Fuck Me Harder (usually an exclamation of disgust)
FOAD Fuck Off And Die (use of this is generally OTT)
FOAF Friend Of A Friend
FOAFOAG Father Of A Friend Of A Girlfriend
FOAG Father Of A Girlfriend
FOCL *clunk* Fell Off Chair Laughing
FOD Finger Of Death
FOOBAR Variant of FUBAR
FOS Freedom Of Speech; Full Of Shit
FOT Full Of Tripe
FOTCL Falling Off The Chair Laughing
FRED Fucking Ridiculous Electronic Device
FRZ Fruitin' Religious Zealot
FTASB Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
FTF Face To Face
FTL Faster Than Light
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FTS Fixin' To Start
FU Fucked Up, Fuck yoU
FUBAB Fucked Up Beyond All Belief
FUBAR Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition
FUD Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
FUMTU Fucked Up More Than Usual
FURTB Full Up Ready To Burst (about hard disk drives!)
FWIW For What It's Worth
FY&TSYRIO Fuck You & The Sysop You Rode In On
FYA For Your Amusement
FYDITM Fuck You Directly In The Mouth
FYI For Your Information
 
G Grin Back to Top
GA Go Ahead (used when two people try to type simultaneously)
GAC Get A Clue
GAFIA Get Away From It All (as in drop out of ILink for a bit)
GAFL Get A Fucking Life
GAL Get A Life
GD&R Grinning, Ducking & Running (after snide remark)
GD&RF Grinning, Ducking & Running Fast!
GD&RVVF Grinning, Ducking & Running Very Very Fast!
GD&W Grinning, Ducking & Weaving
GF GirlFriend or Good Friend
GFR Grim File Reaper (pervasive data destroyer)
GFU General Fuck Up
GGC Goo Goo Cluster (cause zits & intestinal blockage)
GGN Gotta Go Now
GH Getting Hard (male)
GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out; Garbage In, Gospel Out (people accepting blindly what the computer says)
GIWIST Gee, I Wish Id Said That
GLG Goofy Little Grin
GLGH Good Luck and Good Hunting
GMTA Great Minds Think Alike (used when people type a similar thing at the same time)
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; Go Puke, Fast!
GRMBL Grumble
GRUIT Get Real yoU Impudent Thing
GTBOS Glad To Be Of Service
GTFOOMF Get The Fuck Out Of My Face
GTP Gone To Pee
GUI Graphical User Interface
GW Getting Wet (female)
GYHTBT Guess You Had To Be There
 
H2 How To Back to Top
HAND Have A Nice Day
HCB Holy Cow, Batman!
HHGTTG HitchHikers Guide To The Galaxy
HHO1/2K Ha Ha Only Half Kidding
HHOJ Ha Ha Only Joking
HHOK Ha Ha Only Kidding
HHOS Ha Ha Only Serious
HIB_ Have I Been ______?
HNG Horny Net Geek
HOMPR Hang On, Mobile Phones Ringing
HP Home Page
HSIK How Should I Know
HTFSIK How The Fuck Should I Know
HTH Hope This Helps!
HTML Hyper Text Mark-up Language
HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol
HUA Head Up Ass
HW HardWare
HWS(PEST) Husband Wants Sex (Please Excuse Slow Typing)
HWUA Head Way Up Ass
 
IAAA I Am An Accountant Back to Top
IAAL I Am A Lawyer
IAC In Any Case
IAE In Any Event
IANAA I Am Not An Accountant
IANAC I Am Not A Crook
IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer (But...)
IANALBIPOOTV I Am Not A Lawyer, But I Play One On TV
IARTPFWTSIOWIM I Am Repeating This Parrot-Fashion Without The Slightest Idea Of What It Means.
IASH I Am So Horny
IBC Inadequate, But Cute
IBM Inadequate, but Marketable
IC I See, Integrated Circuit
ICB I Care Because?
ICBM InterContinental Ballistic Missile
ICBW I Could Be Wrong
ICTYBTIHTKY I Could Tell You But Then I'd Have To Kill You
ICUR I See You Are
IDE Integrated Drive Electronics
IDGAD I Don't Give A Damn
IDGAS I Don't Give A Shit
IDGI I Don't Get It
IDK I Don't Know
IDTS I Don't Think So
IDTT I'll Drink To That!
IH2SNMFAGH I Have To Stop Now, My Fingers Are Getting Hoarse
IHATCFYB I Have A Terrible Craving For Your Body!
IHTFP I Hate This Fucking Place; I Have Truly Found Paradise
IIABDFI If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It
IIRC If I Recall Correctly
IITYWIMIWHTKY If I Tell You What It Means, I Will Have To Kill You
IITYWIMWYBMAD If I Tell You What It Means, Will You Buy Me A Drink?
IITYWTMWYKM If I Tell You What This Means Will You Kiss Me?
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
ILI I Like Ike
ILICISCOMK I Laughed, I Cried, I Spat Coffee/Coke/Cadmium On My Keyboard
ILIWTPCT I Love It When The Plan Comes Together.
ILSHIBAMF I Laughed So Hard I Broke All My Furniture!
ILU I Love yoU
ILY I Love You
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
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMMOR I Make My Own Rules
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
IMOBO In My Own Biased Opinion
IMPOV In My Point Of View
IMVHO In My Very Humble Opinion
INGSI I'm Not Gonna Say It
INPO In No Particular Order
INT Ill Never Tell
I/O Input/Output
IOU I Owe You
IOW In Other Words
IRL In Real Life
IRQ Interrupt ReQuest
IROOC I've Run Out Of Cigarettes
ISA Industry Standard Architecture
ISP Internet Service Provider
ISTR I Seem To Remember/Recall
ISWYM I See What You Mean
ITFA In The Final Analysis
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
IWSN I Want Sex Now
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
 
JAFO Just Another Fucking Observer Back to Top
JAFU Just Another Fuck Up
JAM Just A Moment; Just A Minute
JANFU Joint Army-Navy Fuck Up.  (When American troops get shelled by their own side, in this case involving the Navy and Army)
JAS Just A Second
JAWS Just Another Windows Shell
JFF Just For Fun
JIC Just In Case
JIT Just In Time
JK or J/K Just Kidding
JSNM Just Stark Naked Magic
JTYWTK Just Thought You Wanted To Know
 
K OK, okay Back to Top
KBD KeyBoarD
KCBIWIYWI Keep Coming Back, It Works If You Work It
KIBO Knowledge In, Bullshit Out
KISS Keep It Simple Stupid
KITA Kick In The Ass (type of therapy)
KMA Kiss My Ass
KMYF Kiss Me You Fool
KOTC Kiss On The Cheek
KotL Keeper of the List
KOTL Kiss On The Lips
KTCOOTN Keep This Crap Out Of This Newsgroup
KWIM Know What I Mean?
 
L8R Later, see you later Back to Top
LAB&TYD Life's A Bitch & Then You Die
LAGNAF Lets All Get Naked And Fuck
LART Luser Attitude Re-adjustment Tool [Clue by four]; Light Armament, Recoil Type
LD Long Distance
LJBF Lets Just Be Friends
LKOM Light Kiss On Mouth
LLTA Lots and Lots of Thunderous (Thundering) Applause
LMA Leave Me Alone
LMAO Laughing My Ass Off
LMAOROTF Laughing My Ass Off Rolling On The Floor
LMC Lost My Connection
LMCOA Lost My Connection Once Again
LMFAO Laughing My Fucking Ass Off
LMK Let Me Know
LMTFA Leave Me The Fuck Alone
LMWIS Lick Me Where I Sweat
LOL Laughing Out Loud; Little Old Lady
LSFIAB Like Shooting Fish In A Barrel
LSHIPMP Laughing So Hard I Peed My Pants
LTBF Learn To Be Funny
LTIP Laughing 'Til I Puke
LTMSH Laughing 'Til My sides Hurt
LTNS Long Time No See
LUSER Loser USER
 
M$ Micro$oft Back to Top
MADD Midgets Against Desk Drawers
MAY Mad About You
MAYB Mad About You, Baby
MCIBTY(SN) My Computer Is Better Than Yours (So Nyerrr)
MD More Dirt (Physician)
MFG More Friendly Garbage!
MFIC Mother Fucker In Charge
MFWIC Mother Fucker What's In Charge
MGD My Gameboy Died
MHBFY My Heart Bleeds For You
MHOTY My Hat's Off To You
MHDC(A) My Hard Drive crashed (again)
MIN Just a minute
MIPS Meaningless Information Per Second
ML More Later
MLA Multiple Letter Acronym
MMIF My Mouth Is Full
MOF Matter Of Fact
MOMPL one MOMent PLease...
MOO Multi-user dungeon Object-Oriented
MORF Male or Female?
MOS Member of the Opposite Sex
MOTAS Member Of The Appropriate Sex
MOTD Message Of The Day
MOTH Humorous Collectibles Forum variation on Member of the Month
MOTM Member Of The Month
MOTOS Member Of The Opposite Sex
MOTSS Member Of The Same Sex
MS More Shit; More of the Same; (Masters Degree)
MSCEA My Southern Comforts Empty Again
MSS Member of the Same Sex
MTBF Mean Time Between Failure
MTFBWY May The Force Be With You
MUD Multi User Domain (or Dungeon)
MUNG Mash/Mung Until No Good
MUSH Multi User Shared Hallucination
MYOB Mind Your Own Business
 
N/A Not Acceptable/Applicable Back to Top
NAGI Not A Good Idea
NAVY Never Again Volunteer Yourself
NBD No Big Deal
NBL Not Bloody Likely
NBTD Nothing Better To Do
NE1469 Anyone for 69? (very naughty, best followed by a GD&R)
NERD National Establishment for Real Dorks
NFG No Fucking Good
NFI No Fucking Idea
NFW No Fucking Way
NFY No Fuck You
NHOH Never Heard Of Him/Her
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
NLI Not Logged In
NMI No Middle Initial
NOYB None Of Your Business
NP No Problem
NP No Problem
NPF No Problem Found
NPLU Not People Like Us
NQA No Questions Asked
NQOS Not Quite Our Sort
NRN No Reply Necessary
NSS No Shit, Shylock/Sherlock (to which my response is "Dig deeper, Watson")
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
NTK Nice To Know
NTL NeverTheLess / NoneTheLess
NUI Network User Identification
NYCTMI Now You Come To Mention It
NYP Not Your Problem
 
O Over (to you) Back to Top
OATUS On A Totally Unrelated Subject
OAUS On An Unrelated Subject
Ob- [as a prefix] obligatory, thus OBjoke is "obligatory joke"
OBTW Oh, By the Way
OD OverDose; Oh Dear
OIC Oh, I See
OK abbreviation of Oll Korrect, corruption of all correct
OMFG Oh My Fucking God!
OMG Oh My God!
ONNA Oh No, Not Again
ONNTA Oh No, Not This Again
OO Over and Out
OOI Out Of Interest
OOSOOM Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind
OOTB Out Of The Box (i.e. brand new)
OOTC Obligatory On Topic Comment
OS Operating System
OSIM Oh Shoot It's Monday
OSU Officially Sanctioned User
OTC Over The Counter
OTD Out The Door
OTF On The Floor
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
OTTOMHAROOB Off The Top of My Head And Rolling Out Of Bounds
OTW On The Whole
OW Oh Well
OWTTE Or Words To That Effect
 
P.S. Post Scriptum Back to Top
PABG Pack A Big Gun
PB4UGO2BED Pee Before You Go To Bed
PBD Programmer Brain Damage
PBM Play By Mail (Games)
PCB Please Call Back
PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCMCIA People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms; Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (now called PC Cards)
PCYLIHOONL Please Cross Your Legs, I Have Only One Nail Left
PD Public Domain
PDA Public Display of Affection
PDN Public Data Network
PDQ Pretty Damn(ed) Quick(ly)
PEBCAK Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard
PF&HOMW Printed, Framed & Hanging On My Wall
PGY Post Graduate Year (as in PGY-1, PGY-2 etc. used in PGY Med)
PhD Piled Higher and Deeper (as in BS, MS, PhD, though unfortunately this doesn't work outside the States)
PIMP Pee In My Pants (often in combination)
PITA Pain In The Ass
PKB Pot, Kettle, Black!
PKOL Passionate Kiss On Lips
PLBKAC Problem Lies Between Keyboard And Chair
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 (a polite way to get into a running discussion)
PMFJIH Pardon Me For Jumping In Here.
PMIGBOM Put Mind In Gear Before Opening Mouth
PMJI Pardon My Jumping In (another polite way to get into a running discussion)
PMYMHMMFSWGAD Pardon Me, You Must Have Mistaken Me For Someone Who Gives A Damn
PMYMHMMFSWGAS Pardon Me, You Must Have Mistaken Me For Someone Who Gives A Shit
PnP Plug 'n' Play; Plug 'n' Pray (stick in your cards and watch your computer fail to work)
POC Prisoner Of Chat; Peeping Other Chatters
POETS Piss On Everything, Tomorrow's Saturday
POITS Piss On It, Tomorrow's Saturday
POM Phase Of the Moon