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.
| $0.02 |
Throwing in your two cents worth |
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| <eg> |
evil grin |
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| <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 |
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| AA |
Alcoholics Anonymous; Travel club - Automobile Association |
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| AAA |
Travel club - American/Australian Automobile Association |
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| 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? |
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| B/C |
BeCause |
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| B4 |
Before |
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| B4N |
Bye for Now |
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| BAC |
By Any Chance |
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| BAD |
Broken As Designed |
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| BAMF |
Bad Assed Mother Fucker |
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| BBFN |
Bye Bye For Now |
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| BBIAB |
Be Back In A Bit |
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| BBIAF |
Be Back In A Few |
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| BBL |
Be Back Later |
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| BBR |
Burnt Beyond Repair |
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| BBS |
Bulletin Board System |
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| BC |
Basket Case |
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| BCC |
Blind Carbon Copy |
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| BCNU |
Be seein' you! (saying goodbye) |
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| BIOYA |
Blow It Out Your Ass |
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| BF |
BoyFriend or Best Friend (make sure the other person knows which one) |
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| BFD |
Big Fucking Deal |
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| BFG |
Big Friendly Giant |
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| BFI |
Brute Force and Ignorance; Bunch of Fucking Idiots |
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| BFMI |
Brute Force and Massive Ignorance |
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| BFN |
Bye For Now |
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| BIOS |
Basic I/O System |
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| BION |
Believe It Or Not |
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| BIOYIOP |
Blow It Out Your I/O Port |
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| BITD |
Beaten It To Death |
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| BK |
Because |
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| BMF |
Bad Mother Fucker |
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| BMOC |
Big Man On Campus |
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| BMTIPG |
Brilliant Minds Think In Parallel Gutters |
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| BNF |
Big Name Fan |
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| BOC |
But Of Course |
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| BOF |
Birds Of a Feather |
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| BOFH |
Bastard [system] Operator From Hell; Big Ordnance, Fucking Heavy |
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| BOHICA |
Bend Over, Here It Comes Again! |
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| BOL |
Bursts Out Laughing |
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| BOS |
Big Orange Switch |
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| BOT |
Back On Topic |
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| BOTEC |
Back Of The Envelope Calculation |
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| BRB |
Be Right Back |
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| BRS |
Big Red Switch |
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| BS |
Bull Shit (Bachelor Degree) |
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| BSEG |
Big Shit Eating Grin |
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| BSG |
Broad Sweeping Generalization; Big Smiling Grin |
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| 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) |
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| BTA |
But Then Again (in response to IOW) |
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| BTAICBW |
But Then Again I could Be Wrong |
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| BTAIM |
Be That As It May |
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| BTDT |
Been There, Done That |
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| BTDTGTTS |
Been There, Done That, Got The T-Shirt |
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| BTOBD |
Be There Or Be Dead |
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| BTSOOM |
Beats The Shit Out Of Me |
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| BTW |
By The Way |
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| BUAF |
Butt Ugly ASCII Font |
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| BUAG |
Butt Ugly ASCII Graphic |
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| BWQ |
Buzz Word Quotient |
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| BY |
BusY |
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| BYKT |
But You Knew That |
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| BYKTA |
But You Knew That Already |
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| BYOB |
Bring Your Own Booze/Bottle |
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| C/O |
in Care Of (for sending mail) |
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| CADET |
Cant Add, Doesn't Even Try |
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| CB |
Call Back |
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| CC |
Carbon Copy |
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| CE |
Creative Editing |
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| CF |
Charlie Foxtrot; Cluster Fuck (meaning similar to SNAFU) |
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| CFD |
Call For Discussion |
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| CFV |
Call For Vote |
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| CHOWUR |
See HOW yoU aRe |
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| CHUR |
See How yoU aRe |
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| CIC |
Christ, I'm Confused |
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| CIO |
Cut It Out |
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| CIS |
CompuServe Information Service |
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| CLAB |
Crying Like A Baby |
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| CLI |
Command Line Interface |
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| CMIIW |
Correct Me If I'm Wrong |
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| CO |
COnference |
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| COD |
Cash On Delivery (when receiving mail) |
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| COTFLGOHAHA |
Crawling On The Floor Laughing Guts Out and Having A Heart Attack |
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| CPF |
Can Pigs Fly? |
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| CRAFT |
Cant Remember A Fucking Thing |
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| CRPG |
Character (or computer) Role Playing Game |
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| CRS |
Can't Remember Shit |
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| CS |
Cop Shop (police station) |
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| CTTD |
Cute Things They Do |
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| CTTS |
Cute Things They Say |
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| CU |
See yoU (good bye) |
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| CUA |
Commonly Used Acronym(s); Common User Access |
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| CUL |
See yoU Later |
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| CUL8ER |
See yoU LatER |
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| CUL8R |
See yoU LateR |
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| CUL8TR |
See yoU LateR |
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| CWYL |
Chat With You Later |
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| CYA |
Cover Your Ass |
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| CYL |
See You Later |
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| D&C |
Duck and Cover - a popular 1950s song in dedication to the atomic bomb (and its possible attack) |
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| D/L |
Download, transmit to you |
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| DAP |
Parents Against Dyslexia |
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| DARCFC |
Ducking And Running For Cover |
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| DBA |
Doing Business As |
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| DBN |
Doing Business, NOT |
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| DETLA |
Double Extended Three Letter Acronym |
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| DH |
Dear Husband (also Dear Hubby, Duh Hubby, Dick Head) |
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| DIIK |
Damned If I Know |
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| DIIN |
Damned If I kNow |
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| DILLIGAF |
Does It Look Like I Give A Fuck? |
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| DILLIGAFF |
Do I Look Like I Give a Flying Fuck? |
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| DITUIHIBMSL? |
Did I Tell yoU I Hate IBM'S Lately? |
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| DITUILIBMSL? |
Did I Tell yoU I Love IBM'S Lately? |
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| DK |
Don't Know |
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| DKU |
Drop Kick Ugly |
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| DL |
or D/L Download |
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| DLG |
Devilish Little Grin |
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| DMA |
Direct Memory Access (allows devices to read/write RAM without asking the processor first) |
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| DNA |
Did Not Answer |
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| DNPM |
Darn Near Pissed Myself |
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| DOA |
Dead On Arrival |
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| DOB |
Date/Day Of Birth |
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| DOM |
Dirty Old Man |
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| DRA |
Don't Recognize Acronyms |
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| DTD |
Document Type Definition |
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| DTOKAB |
Drop To One Knee And Blow |
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| DTP |
DeskTop Publishing |
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| DTRT |
Do The Right Thing |
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| DUCWIC |
Do You See What I See |
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| DUK |
Dead Upon Keyboard |
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| DVD |
Digital Versatile Disc (formerly: Digital Video Disc) |
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| DWIM |
Do What I Mean |
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| DWIMC |
Do What I Mean, Correctly |
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| DWIMNWIS |
Do What I Mean, Not What I Say |
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| DYE |
Damn Your Eyes! |
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| DYHWIH |
Do You Hear What I Hear |
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| DYSWIS |
Do You See What I See |
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| E2EG |
Ear to Ear Grin |
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| ED |
Emotionally Disturbed |
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| EDP |
Emotionally Disturbed Person |
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| EIDE |
Extended IDE (which doesn't really make much sense; the successor to IDE allowing bigger drives) |
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| EISA |
Extended Industry Standard Architecture |
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| EOB |
End Of Business |
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| EOD |
End Of Discussion |
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| EOF |
End Of File |
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| EOL |
End Of Lecture |
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| EOT |
End Of Thread (i.e., don't reply to this message) |
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| ES&D |
Eat Shit & Die |
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| ESAD |
Eat Shit And Die |
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| ESADMF |
Eat Shit And Die, Mother Fucker |
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| ESAL |
Eat Shit And Live |
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| ESOSL |
Endless Snorts of Stupid Laughter |
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| ESP |
ESPecially |
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| ETA |
Estimated Time of Arrival |
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| ETLA |
Extended Three Letter Acronym |
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| F2F |
Face To Face |
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| FAQ |
Frequently Asked Questions |
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| FAQL |
Frequently Asked Questions List |
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| FART |
Fathers Against Radical Teenagers |
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| FATT |
Funny At The Time |
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| FCFS |
First Come, First Served |
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| FCOL |
For Crying Out Loud |
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| FDROTFL |
Falling Down Rolling On The Floor Laughing |
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| FFRD |
Flying Fuck in a Rolling Donut (I don't give a....) |
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| FHS |
Friendly HandShake |
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| FIGJAM |
Fuck I'm Good, Just Ask Me |
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| FIGMO |
Fuck It, Got My Orders |
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| FIIK |
Fucked If I Know! |
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| FIIN |
Fucked If I kNow! |
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| FISH |
First In, Still Here |
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| FITB |
Fill In The Blank |
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| FLA |
Four/Five Letter Acronym (ETLA or DETLA are preferred because FLA isn't an FLA) |
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| FMH |
Fuck Me Harder (usually an exclamation of disgust) |
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| FOAD |
Fuck Off And Die (use of this is generally OTT) |
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| FOAF |
Friend Of A Friend |
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| FOAFOAG |
Father Of A Friend Of A Girlfriend |
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| FOAG |
Father Of A Girlfriend |
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| FOCL |
*clunk* Fell Off Chair Laughing |
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| FOD |
Finger Of Death |
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| FOOBAR |
Variant of FUBAR |
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| FOS |
Freedom Of Speech; Full Of Shit |
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| FOT |
Full Of Tripe |
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| FOTCL |
Falling Off The Chair Laughing |
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| FRED |
Fucking Ridiculous Electronic Device |
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| FRZ |
Fruitin' Religious Zealot |
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| FTASB |
Faster Than A Speeding Bullet |
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| FTF |
Face To Face |
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| FTL |
Faster Than Light |
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| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
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| FTS |
Fixin' To Start |
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| FU |
Fucked Up, Fuck yoU |
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| FUBAB |
Fucked Up Beyond All Belief |
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| FUBAR |
Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition |
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| FUD |
Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt |
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| FUMTU |
Fucked Up More Than Usual |
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| FURTB |
Full Up Ready To Burst (about hard disk drives!) |
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| FWIW |
For What It's Worth |
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| FY&TSYRIO |
Fuck You & The Sysop You Rode In On |
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| FYA |
For Your Amusement |
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| FYDITM |
Fuck You Directly In The Mouth |
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| FYI |
For Your Information |
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| G |
Grin |
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| GA |
Go Ahead (used when two people try to type simultaneously) |
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| GAC |
Get A Clue |
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| GAFIA |
Get Away From It All (as in drop out of ILink for a bit) |
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| GAFL |
Get A Fucking Life |
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| GAL |
Get A Life |
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| GD&R |
Grinning, Ducking & Running (after snide remark) |
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| GD&RF |
Grinning, Ducking & Running Fast! |
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| GD&RVVF |
Grinning, Ducking & Running Very Very Fast! |
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| GD&W |
Grinning, Ducking & Weaving |
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| GF |
GirlFriend or Good Friend |
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| GFR |
Grim File Reaper (pervasive data destroyer) |
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| GFU |
General Fuck Up |
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| GGC |
Goo Goo Cluster (cause zits & intestinal blockage) |
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| GGN |
Gotta Go Now |
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| GH |
Getting Hard (male) |
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| GIGO |
Garbage In, Garbage Out; Garbage In, Gospel Out (people accepting blindly what the computer says) |
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| GIWIST |
Gee, I Wish Id Said That |
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| GLG |
Goofy Little Grin |
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| GLGH |
Good Luck and Good Hunting |
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| GMTA |
Great Minds Think Alike (used when people type a similar thing at the same time) |
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| GOK |
God Only Knows |
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| GOOML |
Get Out Of My Life |
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| GOTFIA |
Groaning On The Floor In Agony |
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| GOWI |
Get On With It |
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| GPF |
General Protection Fault; Go Puke, Fast! |
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| GRMBL |
Grumble |
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| GRUIT |
Get Real yoU Impudent Thing |
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| GTBOS |
Glad To Be Of Service |
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| GTFOOMF |
Get The Fuck Out Of My Face |
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| GTP |
Gone To Pee |
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| GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
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| GW |
Getting Wet (female) |
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| GYHTBT |
Guess You Had To Be There |
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| H2 |
How To |
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| HAND |
Have A Nice Day |
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| HCB |
Holy Cow, Batman! |
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| HHGTTG |
HitchHikers Guide To The Galaxy |
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| HHO1/2K |
Ha Ha Only Half Kidding |
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| HHOJ |
Ha Ha Only Joking |
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| HHOK |
Ha Ha Only Kidding |
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| HHOS |
Ha Ha Only Serious |
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| HIB_ |
Have I Been ______? |
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| HNG |
Horny Net Geek |
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| HOMPR |
Hang On, Mobile Phones Ringing |
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| HP |
Home Page |
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| HSIK |
How Should I Know |
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| HTFSIK |
How The Fuck Should I Know |
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| HTH |
Hope This Helps! |
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| HTML |
Hyper Text Mark-up Language |
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| HTTP |
HyperText Transfer Protocol |
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| HUA |
Head Up Ass |
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| HW |
HardWare |
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| HWS(PEST) |
Husband Wants Sex (Please Excuse Slow Typing) |
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| HWUA |
Head Way Up Ass |
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| IAAA |
I Am An Accountant |
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| IAAL |
I Am A Lawyer |
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| IAC |
In Any Case |
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| IAE |
In Any Event |
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| IANAA |
I Am Not An Accountant |
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| IANAC |
I Am Not A Crook |
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| IANAL |
I Am Not A Lawyer (But...) |
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| IANALBIPOOTV |
I Am Not A Lawyer, But I Play One On TV |
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| IARTPFWTSIOWIM |
I Am Repeating This Parrot-Fashion Without The Slightest Idea Of What It Means. |
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| IASH |
I Am So Horny |
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| IBC |
Inadequate, But Cute |
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| IBM |
Inadequate, but Marketable |
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| IC |
I See, Integrated Circuit |
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| ICB |
I Care Because? |
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| ICBM |
InterContinental Ballistic Missile |
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| ICBW |
I Could Be Wrong |
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| ICTYBTIHTKY |
I Could Tell You But Then I'd Have To Kill You |
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| ICUR |
I See You Are |
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| IDE |
Integrated Drive Electronics |
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| IDGAD |
I Don't Give A Damn |
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| IDGAS |
I Don't Give A Shit |
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| IDGI |
I Don't Get It |
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| IDK |
I Don't Know |
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| IDTS |
I Don't Think So |
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| IDTT |
I'll Drink To That! |
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| IH2SNMFAGH |
I Have To Stop Now, My Fingers Are Getting Hoarse |
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| IHATCFYB |
I Have A Terrible Craving For Your Body! |
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| IHTFP |
I Hate This Fucking Place; I Have Truly Found Paradise |
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| IIABDFI |
If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It |
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| IIRC |
If I Recall Correctly |
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| IITYWIMIWHTKY |
If I Tell You What It Means, I Will Have To Kill You |
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| IITYWIMWYBMAD |
If I Tell You What It Means, Will You Buy Me A Drink? |
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| IITYWTMWYKM |
If I Tell You What This Means Will You Kiss Me? |
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| IITYWYBAD |
If I Tell You, Will You Buy Another Drink |
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| IITYWYBMAB |
If I Tell You, Will You Buy Me A Beer |
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| IJLS |
I Just Like Saying |
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| IK |
I Know |
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| ILI |
I Like Ike |
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| ILICISCOMK |
I Laughed, I Cried, I Spat Coffee/Coke/Cadmium On My Keyboard |
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| ILIWTPCT |
I Love It When The Plan Comes Together. |
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| ILSHIBAMF |
I Laughed So Hard I Broke All My Furniture! |
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| ILU |
I Love yoU |
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| ILY |
I Love You |
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| IMAO |
In My Arrogant Opinion |
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| IMBO |
In My Biased Opinion |
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| IMCDO |
In My Conceited Dogmatic Opinion |
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| IMCO |
In My Considered Opinion |
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| IME |
In My Experience |
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| IMHO |
In My Humble Opinion |
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| IMMOR |
I Make My Own Rules |
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| IMNSHO |
In My Not So Humble Opinion |
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| IMO |
In My Opinion |
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| IMOBO |
In My Own Biased Opinion |
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| IMPOV |
In My Point Of View |
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| IMVHO |
In My Very Humble Opinion |
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| INGSI |
I'm Not Gonna Say It |
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| INPO |
In No Particular Order |
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| INT |
Ill Never Tell |
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| I/O |
Input/Output |
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| IOU |
I Owe You |
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| IOW |
In Other Words |
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| IRL |
In Real Life |
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| IRQ |
Interrupt ReQuest |
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| IROOC |
I've Run Out Of Cigarettes |
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| ISA |
Industry Standard Architecture |
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| ISP |
Internet Service Provider |
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| ISTR |
I Seem To Remember/Recall |
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| ISWYM |
I See What You Mean |
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| ITFA |
In The Final Analysis |
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| ITYM |
I Think You Mean |
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| IUTHALORFH |
I Used To Have A Lot Of Respect For Him/Her |
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| IUTKATS |
I Used To Know All That Stuff |
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| IWBNI |
It Would Be Nice If |
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| IWIK |
I Wish I Knew |
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| IWSN |
I Want Sex Now |
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| IYFEG |
Insert Your Favourite Ethnic Group |
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| IYKWIM |
If You Know What I Mean |
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| IYKWIMAITYD |
If You Know What I Mean And I Think You Do |
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| IYSWIM |
If You See What I Mean |
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| JAFO |
Just Another Fucking Observer |
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| JAFU |
Just Another Fuck Up |
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| JAM |
Just A Moment; Just A Minute |
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| JANFU |
Joint Army-Navy Fuck Up. (When American troops get shelled by their own side, in this case involving the Navy and Army) |
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| JAS |
Just A Second |
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| JAWS |
Just Another Windows Shell |
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| JFF |
Just For Fun |
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| JIC |
Just In Case |
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| JIT |
Just In Time |
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| JK |
or J/K Just Kidding |
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| JSNM |
Just Stark Naked Magic |
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| JTYWTK |
Just Thought You Wanted To Know |
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| K |
OK, okay |
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| KBD |
KeyBoarD |
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| KCBIWIYWI |
Keep Coming Back, It Works If You Work It |
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| KIBO |
Knowledge In, Bullshit Out |
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| KISS |
Keep It Simple Stupid |
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| KITA |
Kick In The Ass (type of therapy) |
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| KMA |
Kiss My Ass |
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| KMYF |
Kiss Me You Fool |
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| KOTC |
Kiss On The Cheek |
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| KotL |
Keeper of the List |
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| KOTL |
Kiss On The Lips |
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| KTCOOTN |
Keep This Crap Out Of This Newsgroup |
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| KWIM |
Know What I Mean? |
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| L8R |
Later, see you later |
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| LAB&TYD |
Life's A Bitch & Then You Die |
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| LAGNAF |
Lets All Get Naked And Fuck |
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| LART |
Luser Attitude Re-adjustment Tool [Clue by four]; Light Armament, Recoil Type |
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| LD |
Long Distance |
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| LJBF |
Lets Just Be Friends |
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| LKOM |
Light Kiss On Mouth |
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| LLTA |
Lots and Lots of Thunderous (Thundering) Applause |
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| LMA |
Leave Me Alone |
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| LMAO |
Laughing My Ass Off |
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| LMAOROTF |
Laughing My Ass Off Rolling On The Floor |
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| LMC |
Lost My Connection |
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| LMCOA |
Lost My Connection Once Again |
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| LMFAO |
Laughing My Fucking Ass Off |
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| LMK |
Let Me Know |
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| LMTFA |
Leave Me The Fuck Alone |
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| LMWIS |
Lick Me Where I Sweat |
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| LOL |
Laughing Out Loud; Little Old Lady |
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| LSFIAB |
Like Shooting Fish In A Barrel |
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| LSHIPMP |
Laughing So Hard I Peed My Pants |
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| LTBF |
Learn To Be Funny |
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| LTIP |
Laughing 'Til I Puke |
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| LTMSH |
Laughing 'Til My sides Hurt |
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| LTNS |
Long Time No See |
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| LUSER |
Loser USER |
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| M$ |
Micro$oft |
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| MADD |
Midgets Against Desk Drawers |
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| MAY |
Mad About You |
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| MAYB |
Mad About You, Baby |
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| MCIBTY(SN) |
My Computer Is Better Than Yours (So Nyerrr) |
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| MD |
More Dirt (Physician) |
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| MFG |
More Friendly Garbage! |
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| MFIC |
Mother Fucker In Charge |
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| MFWIC |
Mother Fucker What's In Charge |
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| MGD |
My Gameboy Died |
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| MHBFY |
My Heart Bleeds For You |
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| MHOTY |
My Hat's Off To You |
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| MHDC(A) |
My Hard Drive crashed (again) |
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| MIN |
Just a minute |
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| MIPS |
Meaningless Information Per Second |
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| ML |
More Later |
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| MLA |
Multiple Letter Acronym |
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| MMIF |
My Mouth Is Full |
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| MOF |
Matter Of Fact |
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| MOMPL |
one MOMent PLease... |
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| MOO |
Multi-user dungeon Object-Oriented |
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| MORF |
Male or Female? |
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| MOS |
Member of the Opposite Sex |
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| MOTAS |
Member Of The Appropriate Sex |
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| MOTD |
Message Of The Day |
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| MOTH |
Humorous Collectibles Forum variation on Member of the Month |
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| MOTM |
Member Of The Month |
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| MOTOS |
Member Of The Opposite Sex |
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| MOTSS |
Member Of The Same Sex |
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| MS |
More Shit; More of the Same; (Masters Degree) |
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| MSCEA |
My Southern Comforts Empty Again |
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| MSS |
Member of the Same Sex |
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| MTBF |
Mean Time Between Failure |
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| MTFBWY |
May The Force Be With You |
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| MUD |
Multi User Domain (or Dungeon) |
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| MUNG |
Mash/Mung Until No Good |
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| MUSH |
Multi User Shared Hallucination |
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| MYOB |
Mind Your Own Business |
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| N/A |
Not Acceptable/Applicable |
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| NAGI |
Not A Good Idea |
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| NAVY |
Never Again Volunteer Yourself |
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| NBD |
No Big Deal |
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| NBL |
Not Bloody Likely |
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| NBTD |
Nothing Better To Do |
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| NE1469 |
Anyone for 69? (very naughty, best followed by a GD&R) |
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| NERD |
National Establishment for Real Dorks |
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| NFG |
No Fucking Good |
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| NFI |
No Fucking Idea |
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| NFW |
No Fucking Way |
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| NFY |
No Fuck You |
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| NHOH |
Never Heard Of Him/Her |
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| NICBDAT |
Nothing Is Certain But Death And Taxes |
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| NIDWTC |
No I Don't Want To Chat |
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| NIH |
Not Invented Here |
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| NIMBY |
Not In My Back Yard |
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| NIMTO |
Not In My Term of Office |
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| NINO |
Nothing In, Nothing Out |
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| NIT |
Not In Therapy |
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| NLI |
Not Logged In |
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| NMI |
No Middle Initial |
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| NOYB |
None Of Your Business |
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| NP |
No Problem |
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| NP |
No Problem |
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| NPF |
No Problem Found |
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| NPLU |
Not People Like Us |
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| NQA |
No Questions Asked |
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| NQOS |
Not Quite Our Sort |
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| NRN |
No Reply Necessary |
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| NSS |
No Shit, Shylock/Sherlock (to which my response is "Dig deeper, Watson") |
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| NTG |
Not Too Good |
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| NTH |
No Therapy Helpful |
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| NTIBOA |
Not That I'm Bitter Or Anything |
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| NTIM |
Not That It Matters |
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| NTIMM |
Not That It Matters Much |
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| NTK |
Nice To Know |
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| NTL |
NeverTheLess / NoneTheLess |
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| NUI |
Network User Identification |
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| NYCTMI |
Now You Come To Mention It |
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| NYP |
Not Your Problem |
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| O |
Over (to you) |
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| OATUS |
On A Totally Unrelated Subject |
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| OAUS |
On An Unrelated Subject |
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| Ob- |
[as a prefix] obligatory, thus OBjoke is "obligatory joke" |
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| OBTW |
Oh, By the Way |
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| OD |
OverDose; Oh Dear |
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| OIC |
Oh, I See |
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| OK |
abbreviation of Oll Korrect, corruption of all correct |
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| OMFG |
Oh My Fucking God! |
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| OMG |
Oh My God! |
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| ONNA |
Oh No, Not Again |
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| ONNTA |
Oh No, Not This Again |
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| OO |
Over and Out |
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| OOI |
Out Of Interest |
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| OOSOOM |
Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind |
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| OOTB |
Out Of The Box (i.e. brand new) |
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| OOTC |
Obligatory On Topic Comment |
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| OS |
Operating System |
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| OSIM |
Oh Shoot It's Monday |
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| OSU |
Officially Sanctioned User |
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| OTC |
Over The Counter |
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| OTD |
Out The Door |
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| OTF |
On The Floor |
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| OTL |
Out To Lunch |
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| OTOH |
On The Other Hand |
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| OTOOH |
On The Other Other Hand |
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| OTT |
Over The Top |
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| OTTH |
On The Third Hand |
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| OTTOMH |
Off The Top Of My Head |
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| OTTOMHAROOB |
Off The Top of My Head And Rolling Out Of Bounds |
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| OTW |
On The Whole |
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| OW |
Oh Well |
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| OWTTE |
Or Words To That Effect |
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| P.S. |
Post Scriptum |
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| PABG |
Pack A Big Gun |
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| PB4UGO2BED |
Pee Before You Go To Bed |
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| PBD |
Programmer Brain Damage |
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| PBM |
Play By Mail (Games) |
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| PCB |
Please Call Back |
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| PCI |
Peripheral Component Interconnect |
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| PCMCIA |
People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms; Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (now called PC Cards) |
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| PCYLIHOONL |
Please Cross Your Legs, I Have Only One Nail Left |
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| PD |
Public Domain |
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| PDA |
Public Display of Affection |
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| PDN |
Public Data Network |
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| PDQ |
Pretty Damn(ed) Quick(ly) |
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| PEBCAK |
Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard |
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| PF&HOMW |
Printed, Framed & Hanging On My Wall |
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| PGY |
Post Graduate Year (as in PGY-1, PGY-2 etc. used in PGY Med) |
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| PhD |
Piled Higher and Deeper (as in BS, MS, PhD, though unfortunately this doesn't work outside the States) |
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| PIMP |
Pee In My Pants (often in combination) |
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| PITA |
Pain In The Ass |
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| PKB |
Pot, Kettle, Black! |
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| PKOL |
Passionate Kiss On Lips |
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| PLBKAC |
Problem Lies Between Keyboard And Chair |
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| PLMKO |
Please Let Me Know, Ok? |
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| PLOKTA |
Press Lots Of Keys To Abort |
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| PMBI |
Pardon My Butting In |
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| PMETC |
Pardon Me ETC. |
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| PMFBI |
Pardon Me For Butting In |
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| PMFJI |
Pardon Me For Jumping In (a polite way to get into a running discussion) |
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| PMFJIH |
Pardon Me For Jumping In Here. |
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| PMIGBOM |
Put Mind In Gear Before Opening Mouth |
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| PMJI |
Pardon My Jumping In (another polite way to get into a running discussion) |
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| PMYMHMMFSWGAD |
Pardon Me, You Must Have Mistaken Me For Someone Who Gives A Damn |
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| PMYMHMMFSWGAS |
Pardon Me, You Must Have Mistaken Me For Someone Who Gives A Shit |
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| PnP |
Plug 'n' Play; Plug 'n' Pray (stick in your cards and watch your computer fail to work) |
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| POC |
Prisoner Of Chat; Peeping Other Chatters |
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| POETS |
Piss On Everything, Tomorrow's Saturday |
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| POITS |
Piss On It, Tomorrow's Saturday |
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| POM |
Phase Of the Moon |
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| POP |
Point Of Presence; Post Office Protocol |
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| POQ |
Piss Off Quickly |
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| POQADCB |
Piss Off Quickly and Don't Come Back! |
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| POSSLQ |
Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters |
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| POV |
Point Of View |
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| PPL |
PeoPLe |
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| PPN |
Programmer Project Number (currently known as UserID) |
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| PPP |
Petty Pet Peeve; Point to Point Protocol |
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| PPPP |
Previous Paragraph was Polemical Position |
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| PS |
Post Scriptum |
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| PS |
PostScript |
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| PS/2 |
Personal System/2 (a series of IBM PC models; now refers to the round connectors that they used for their mice and keyboards, which are now used on most new PCs) |
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| PT |
Physical Training |
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| PTB |
Powers That Be |
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| PTO |
Patent and Trademark Office (US Govt); Please Turn Over |
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| PW |
Pathetic Wanker; PowWow |
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| QED |
Quod Erat Demonstrandum; Quite Easily Done |
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| RAID |
Redundant Array of Independent Disks (formerly: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) |
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| RE |
REgarding |
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| RE |
Returned |
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| RFC |
Request For Comments |
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| RFD |
Request For Discussion |
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| RFI |
Request For Information |
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| RFT |
Request For Thinking |
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| RHIP |
Rank Has Its Privileges |
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| RL |
Real Life |
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| RLCO |
Real Life COnference |
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| RNA |
Ring, No Answer |
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| ROFFNAR |
Rolling On the Floor For No Apparent Reason |
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| ROFL |
Rolling On the Floor Laughing |
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| ROFLAHMSL |
Rolling On the Floor Laughing And Holding My Sides Laughing |
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| ROFLASC |
Rolling On the Floor Laughing And Scaring the Cat |
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| ROFLASTC |
Rolling On the Floor Laughing And Scaring The Cat |
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| ROFLGO |
Rolling On Floor Laughing Guts Out! |
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| ROFLMAO |
Rolling On the Floor Laughing My ASCII Off |
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| ROFLMAOOL |
Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Ass Off Out Loud |
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| ROFLOL |
Rolling On the Floor Laughing Out Loud |
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| ROFLOLVH |
Rolling On the Floor Laughing Out Loud Very Hard |
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| ROFLWMK |
Rolling On the Floor Laughing; Wet My Knickers |
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| ROFPML |
Roll On Floor Pissing Myself Laughing. |
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| ROFTTPOF |
Rolling On the Floor Trying To Put Out Flames |
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| ROTBA |
Reality On The Blink Again |
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| ROTF |
Rolling On The Floor |
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| ROTFL |
Rolling On The Floor Laughing |
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| ROTFLABIC |
Rolling On The Floor Laughing and biting into carpet |
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| ROTFLAHMS |
Rolling On The Floor Laughing And Holding My Side |
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| ROTFLMAAOBPO |
Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass And Other Body Parts Off |
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| ROTFLMAO |
Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off |
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| ROTFSTCLMAAOBPO |
Rolling On The Floor Scaring The Cat Laughing My Ass And Other Body Parts Off |
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| ROTM |
Right On The Money |
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| RPG |
Role Playing Games |
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| RSN |
Real Soon Now |
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| RT |
Real Time |
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| RTFAQ |
Read The FAQ |
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| RTFFAQ |
Read The Fucking FAQ |
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| RTFI |
Read The Fucking Instructions |
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| RTFM |
Read The Fucking Manual |
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| RTFQ |
Read The Fucking Question |
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| RTFS |
Read The Fucking Source |
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| RTI |
Real Time Interruption |
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| RTS |
Read The Screen |
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| RUMF |
aRe yoU Male or Female? |
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| S2BX |
Soon To Be eX |
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| SAMFU |
Self-Adjusting Military Fuck Up |
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| SAMFUTU |
Situation Abnormal, More Fucked Up Than Usual |
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| SAPFU |
Surpassing All Previous Fuck Ups |
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| SAR |
Smart Ass Remark |
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| SBCN |
Sitting Behind the Computer, Naked |
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| SCNR |
Sorry CouldN't Resist |
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| SCSI |
Small Computer Systems Interface |
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| SCUD |
Sure Could Use Directions |
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| SEC |
SECond, e.g. Wait a sec |
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| SEG |
Shit Eating Grin |
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| SEP |
Somebody Else's Problem |
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| SF |
Science Fiction |
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| SFAIAA |
So Far As I Am Aware |
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| SFLA |
Stupid Four Letter Acronym |
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| SGML |
Standardized General Mark-up Language |
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| SH |
Shit Happens |
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| SHTSI |
Somebody Had To Say It |
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| SICS |
Sitting In Chair Snickering |
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| SIG |
Special Interest Group |
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| SIIN |
Stuffed If I Know! |
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| SITD |
Still In The Dark |
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| SLIP |
Single Line In Protocol; Serial Line Internet Protocol |
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| SMAR |
Suck My Ass Raw |
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| SMO |
Serious Mode On |
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| SMOFF |
Serious Mode OFF |
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| SMOP |
Small Matter Of Programming |
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| SMTP |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
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| SNAFU |
Situation Normal, All Fucked Up |
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| SnailMail |
Postal Mail Service |
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| SNERT |
Snot-Nosed Egotistical Rude Teenager |
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| SNR |
Signal to Noise Ratio |
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| SO |
Significant Other (spouse, boy/girlfriend...) |
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| SOHF |
Sense Of Humour Failure |
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| SOI |
Stink On Ice |
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| SOL |
Shit Out of Luck |
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| SOP |
Standing Operational Procedures; Standard Operating Procedure |
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| SOS |
Same Old Shit |
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| SOVS |
SomeOne Very Special |
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| SPAM |
SPiced hAM (Hormels canned meat); Stupid Person's AdvertiseMent |
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| SSDD |
Same Shit, Different Day |
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| ST |
Star Trek; Such That |
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| ST-DS9 |
Star Trek, Deep Space 9 |
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| STFU |
Shut The Fuck Up |
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| STI/ST-TMP |
Star Trek, first movie / The Motion Picture |
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| STIFF |
Stiff, said loudly. |
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| STII/ST-WOK |
Star Trek, second movie / Wrath Of Khan |
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| STIII/ST-SFS |
Star Trek, third movie / Search For Spock |
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| STIV/ST-TVH |
Star Trek, fourth movie / The Voyage Home |
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| STS |
So To Speak |
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| ST-TNG |
Star Trek, The Next Generation |
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| ST-TOS |
Star Trek, The Original Series |
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| STV/ST-TFF |
Star Trek, fifth movie / The Final Frontier |
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| STVI/ST-TUC |
Star Trek, sixth movie / The Undiscovered Country |
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| ST-VOY |
Star Trek, Voyager |
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| SUCDIC |
Situation Under Control, Dickheads In Charge |
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| SUFID |
Screwing Up Face In Disgust |
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| SUNOILTY |
Shut Up, No One Is Listening To You |
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| SUP |
What's Up |
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| SUSFU |
Situation Unchanged, Still Fucked Up |
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| SUYP |
Shut Up You Pervert |
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| SW |
SoftWare; So What?; Says Whom? |
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| SWAG |
Simple Wild Ass Guess; Scientific Wild Ass Guess |
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| SWAK |
Sealed With A Kiss |
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| SWALK |
Sealed With A Loving Kiss |
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| SWDYRTW |
Since When Do You Rule The Web? |
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| SWMBO |
She Who Must Be Obeyed |
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| SWYP |
So What's Your Problem? |
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| SYSOP |
SYStem OPerator |
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| SYT |
Sweet Young Thing |
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| TAF |
That's All, Folks! |
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| TAFN |
That's All For Now |
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| TANJ |
There Ain't No Justice |
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| TANSTAAFL |
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch |
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| TARFU |
Things Are Really Fucked Up |
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| TBC |
To Be Continued |
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| TBE |
To Be Expected |
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| TBYB |
Try Before You Buy |
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| TC |
Telephone Call; Take Care |
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| TCB |
Taking Care of Business |
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| TCBY |
Taking Care of Business, Y'all |
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| TCD |
The Cat's Dead |
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| TDD |
The Dog's Dead |
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| TDM |
Too Damn Many |
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| TFB |
Too Fucking Bad |
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| TFE |
Too Fucking Easy |
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| TFM |
The Fucking Manual |
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| TFS |
Three Finger Salute (Ctrl-Alt-Del) |
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| TFTT |
Thanks For The Thought |
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| TGAL |
Think Globally, Act Locally |
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| TGIF |
Thank God It's Friday |
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| TGTF |
Thank God Tomorrow's Friday |
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| THANX |
Thanks |
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| THO |
Titty Hard On |
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| THX |
THanX |
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| TIA |
Thanks In Advance |
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| TIATLG |
Truly, I Am The Living God |
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| TIC |
Tongue In Cheek |
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| TIME |
Tears In My Eyes (often in combination) |
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| TINALO |
This Is Not A Legal Opinion |
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| TINAR |
This Is Not A Recommendation |
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| TINSTAAFL |
There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch |
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| TINWIS |
That Is Not What I Said |
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| TIP |
To Insure Promptness |
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| TIWTGLGG |
This Is Where The Goofy Little Grin Goes |
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| TJATAW |
Truth, Justice, And The American Way |
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| TLA |
Three Letter Acronym |
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| TLC |
Tender Loving Care |
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| TLG |
The Living God |
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| TM |
Thread Mangler |
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| TMI |
Too Much Information |
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| TN |
TelNet |
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| TNOTVS |
There's Nothing On Television, So ... |
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| TNSO |
Temptingly Naked Significant Other |
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| TNX 1.0E6 |
Thanks a million |
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| TNX |
Thanks (as in ThaNX) |
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| TPAE |
The Possibilities Are Endless |
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| TPS(S) |
This Program Sucks (Severely) |
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| TPTB |
The Powers That Be |
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| TRDMC |
Tears Running Down My Cheeks |
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| TS |
Tough Shit |
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| TSJD |
Texas Size Jelly Donut -- official food of Texas sysops |
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| TSOHF |
Total Sense Of Humour Failure |
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| TSR |
Terminate and Stay Resident [program]; Totally Stupid Rules |
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| TTBE |
That's To Be Expected |
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| TTBOMK |
To The Best Of My Knowledge |
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| TTFN |
Ta-Ta For Now |
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| TTL4N |
That's The Lot For Now |
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| TTM |
To The Moderator |
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| TTUL |
Talk (or Type) To you Later |
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| TTYRS |
Talk To You Real Soon? |
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| TUFD |
The User File Died |
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| TWAIN |
Tool Without An Interesting Name (a standard interface for scanners, digital cameras etc. to give images to other programs) |
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| TWIMC |
To Whom It May Concern |
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| TWYAS |
That's What You All Say |
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| TWYT |
That's What You Think |
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| TYVM |
Thank You Very Much |
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| U/L |
Upload, send to the BBS |
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| UAE |
Unrecoverable Application Error (Bane of Windows 3 users, now superseded by the GPF in Windows 3.1x & Windows 9x, and the BSOD in Windows NT) |
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| UBD |
User Brain Damage |
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| UCE |
Unsolicited Commercial E-mail |
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| UL |
Upload, send to the BBS |
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| UNCLE |
Unified Nuclear Coalition of Latvian Emigrants |
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| UOK |
yoU OK? |
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| URL |
Universal Resource Locator |
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| URLCM |
yoU aRe weLCoMe |
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| USU |
USUally |
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| UTC |
Under The Counter |
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| UTT |
Under The Table |
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| VETLA |
Very Enhanced TLA |
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| VR |
Virtual Reality |
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| VT |
Virtual Time |
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| W/ |
With |
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| W/O |
WithOut |
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| W8 |
Wait |
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| W8ING |
WaitING |
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| WAB? |
What, Another Bill? |
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| WAEF |
When All Else Fails |
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| WAG |
Wild-Assed Guess |
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| WALOC |
What A Load of Crap |
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| WAMKSAM |
Why Are My Kids (or Kitties) Staring At Me? |
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| WB |
Welcome Back |
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| WCAGA |
What Comes Around, Goes Around |
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| WCTYBTWHTKY |
We Could Tell You, But Then Wed Have To Kill You |
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| WDYMBT |
What Do (or Did) You Mean By That? |
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| WEFT |
Wrong Every Fucking Time |
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| WFHIT |
What Fresh Hell Is This? (from the writings of Dorothy Parker) |
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| WFM |
Works For Me |
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| WGAS |
Who Gives A Shit |
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| WIBAMU |
Well I'll Be A Monkeys Uncle |
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| WIBNIF |
Wouldn't It Be Nice IF... |
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| WIMP |
Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointing |
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| WITWAY |
Where In The World Are You? |
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| WIZOP |
Wizard Sysop (the primary forum administrator of a forum) |
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| WMMOWS |
Wash My Mouth Out With Soap |
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| WNOHGB |
Were No One Has Gone Before |
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| WOA |
Work Of Art |
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| WOFTAM |
Waste Of Flaming Time And Money |
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| WOLF |
Witless One Line Follow-up |
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| WOM |
Word Of Mouth |
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| WOMBAT |
Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time |
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| WOWF |
Witless One Word Follow-up |
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| WRATGAS |
Who Really And Truly Gives A Shit |
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| WRT |
With Regard To; With Respect To |
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| WT |
Without Thinking |
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| WTF |
What/Why/Who/Where/When The Fuck |
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| WTFDIC |
What The Fuck Do I Care |
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| WTFDIK |
What The Fuck Do I Know |
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| WTFDYTYA |
Who The Fuck Do You Think You Are |
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| WTFIIWT_A |
What The Fuck Is It With These _____ Anyway? |
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| WTFO |
What The Fuck, Over (Reply) |
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| WTFWT |
What The Fuck Was That? (Mayor of Hiroshima) |
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| WTG |
Way To Go |
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| WTH |
What The Hell (or Heck) |
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| WTTM |
Without Thinking To Much |
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| WWS |
Wife Wants Sex (please wait a tic) |
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| WWW |
World Wide Web |
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| WYSIAYG |
What You See Is All You Get |
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| WYGIWYD |
What You Got Is What You Deserved |
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| WYGIWYG |
What You Got Is What You Get |
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| WYGIWYPF |
What You Get Is What You Pay For |
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| WYLABOCTGWTR |
Would You Like A Bowl Of Cream To Go With That Remark? |
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| WYLASOMWTC |
Would You Like A Saucer Of Milk With That Comment? |
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| WYP |
What's Your Point? |
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| WYSBANRTWYG |
What You See Bears Absolutely No Relation To What You Get |
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| WYSBYGI |
What You See Before You Get It |
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| WYSIWYG |
What You See Is What You Get |
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| WYSOH |
Where's Your Sense Of Humour? |
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| WYTYSYDG |
What You Thought You Saw, You Didn't Get |
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| XYZ |
eXamine Your Zipper |
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| YABA |
Yet Another Bloody Acronym |
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| YABSA |
Yet Another Bloody Stupid Acronym |
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| YADS |
Yet Another DOS Shell |
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| YAFA |
Yet Another Fine Acronym |
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| YAFIYGI |
You Asked For It, You Got It |
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| YAOTM |
Yet Another Off-Topic Message |
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| YAP |
Yet Another Ploy |
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| YCDBSOYA |
You Can't Do Business Sitting On Your Ass! |
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| YGTBK |
You've Got To Be Kidding |
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| YGTBSM |
You've Got To Be Shitting Me! |
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| YHB_ |
You Have Been ______ |
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| YHBW |
You Have Been Warned |
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| YHGASPL |
You Have Got A Serious Problem, Lad! |
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| YHGMTPO_ |
You Have Greatly Misunderstood The Purpose Of ______ |
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| YHL |
You Have Lost |
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| YHTBT |
You Had To Be There |
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| YKIYEI |
You Killed It, You Eat It |
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| YKWIM |
You Know What I Mean |
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| YKYB |
You Know You've Been |
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| YKYB_TLW |
You Know You've Been ______ing Too Long When ... |
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| YM |
You Mean |
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| YMMV |
Your Mileage May Vary; literally, your experience may differ. |
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| YOYO |
You're On Your Own |
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| YR |
Yeah Right |
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| YSS |
You Suck Severely |
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| YWHOL |
Yelling WooHoo Out Loud (as in LOL) |
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| YWIA |
You're Welcome In Advance |
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| YWSYLS |
You Win Some, You Lose Some |
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| ZNT |
ZiffNeT |
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