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Chat: Abbreviation: Can you give me an overview of chat abbreviations?
Jul 23rd, 2005 13:55
Knud van Eeden,
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Chat: Abbreviation: Can you give me an overview of chat abbreviations?
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DATABASE: DATABASENAME: INTERNET: COMMUNICATION
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TABLE: TABLENAME: CHAT: ABBREVIATION
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TABLE: TYPE: ONE TO ONE
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| NR | CHAT: ABBREVIATION | CHAT: DESCRIPTION |
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001 2B or not 2B To Be Or Not To Be
002 2B || !2B To Be Or Not To Be
003 404 I Haven't A Clue
004 4ever Forever
005 ::POOF:: Goodbye (=leaving the room)
006 A/S/L? Age/Sex/Location?
007 AB A** Backwards
008 ADN Any Day Now
009 AFAIC As Far As I'm Concerned
010 AFAIK As Far As I Know
011 AFK Away From Keyboard
012 AIAMU And I'm A Monkey's Uncle
013 AISI As I See It
014 AKA Also Known As
015 AMBW All My Best Wishes
016 AN About Nothin'
017 AOTS All Of The Sudden
018 ARE Acronym-rich environment
019 ASAFP As Soon As "Friggin" Possible
020 ASAP As Soon As Possible
021 ATM At The Moment
022 ATST At The Same Time
023 AYSOS Are You Stupid Or Something
024 B4 Before
025 B4N Bye For Now
026 BAK Back At The Keyboard
027 BAS Big A** Smile
028 BAU Business As Usual
029 BBFBBM Body By Fisher, Brains by Mattel
030 BBIAB Be Back In A Bit
031 BBIAF Be Back In A Few
032 BBL Be Back Later
033 BBN Bye Bye Now
034 BBS Be Back Soon
035 BCNU Be Seeing You
036 BEG Big Evil Grin
037 BF Boyfriend
038 BF Basic Fact
039 BFD Big F***ing Deal
040 BFN Bye For Now
041 BG Big grin
042 BHOF Bald Headed Old Fart
043 BIBO Beer In, Beer Out
044 BIF Basis In Fact
045 BION Believe It Or Not
046 BIOYIOP Blow It Out Your I/O port
047 BITD Back In The Day
048 BL Belly Laughing
049 BM Byte Me
050 BMGWL Busting My Gut With Laughter
051 BMOTA Byte Me On The Ass
052 BNF Big Name Fan
053 BOHICA Bend Over Here It Comes Again
054 BOTEC Back-Of-The-Envelope Calculation
055 BR Bathroom
056 BRB Be Right Back
057 BRT Be Right There
058 BS Big Smile
059 BSU Be Seeing You
060 BT Byte This
061 BTA But Then Again...
062 BTDT Been There, Done That
063 BTSOOM Beats The S*** Out Of Me
064 BTW By The Way
065 BTWBO Be There With Bells On
066 BWDIK But What Do I Know?
067 BWL Bursting With Laughter
068 BWTHDIK But What The Heck Do I Know...?
069 C&G Chuckle and Grin
070 CIAO Goodbye (in Italian)
071 CICO Coffee In, Coffee Out
072 CID Consider It Done
073 CIO Check It Out
074 CIS CompuServe Information Service
075 CMF Count My Fingers
076 CND Crying In Disgrace
077 CNP Continued (in my) Next Post
078 Cof$ Church of Scientology
079 CP Chat Post (=a chat message)
080 CRAFT Can't Remember a F***ing Thing
081 CRAWS Can't Remember Anything Worth A S***
082 CRB Come Right Back
083 CRBT Crying Real Big Tears
084 CSG Chuckle Snicker Grin
085 CSL Can't Stop Laughing
086 CTC Choaking The Chicken
087 CU See You
088 CUL See you Later
089 CUL8ER See you Later
090 CUL8R See You Later
091 CWYL Chat With You Later
092 CYA See Ya
093 CYA Cover Your Ass
094 CYA See You
095 CYAL8R See You All Later
096 CYL See You Later
097 CYO See You Online
098 DBA Doing Business As
099 DBEYR Don't Believe Everything You Read
100 DD Due Diligence
101 DDD Direct Distance Dial
102 DETI Don't Even Think It
103 DFLA Disenhanced Four-Letter Acronym (that is,
a TLA)
104 DGT Don't Go There
105 DHYB Don't Hold Your Breath
106 DIKU Do I Know you?
107 DILLIGAD Do I Look Like I Give A Damn
108 DILLIGAS Do I Look Like I Give A S***
109 DITYID Did I Tell You I am Distressed?
110 DKDC Don't Know Don't Care
111 DL Dead Link
112 DLTBBB Don't Let The Bed Bugs Bite
113 DLTM Don't Lie To Me
114 DOM Dirty Old Man
115 DOS Dozing Off Soon
116 DQMOT Don't Quote Me On This
117 DQYDJ Don't Quit You're Day Job
118 DRIB Don't Read If Busy
119 DTRT Do The Right Thing
120 DWB Don't Write Back
121 DYSTSOTT Did You See The Size Of That Thing
122 EG Evil Grin
123 EMFBI Excuse Me For Butting In
124 EMSG Email Message
125 EOM End Of Message
126 EOT End Of Thread (meaning: end of discussion)
127 ESO Equipment Smarter Than Operator
128 ETLA Extended Three-Letter Acronym (that is,
an FLA)
129 F2F Face-to-Face
130 FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
131 FBKS Failure Between Keyboard and Seat
132 FC Fingers Crossed
133 FE Fatal Error
134 FF&PN Fresh Fields and Pastures New
135 FISH First In, Still Here
136 FLA Four-letter acronym
137 FMPOV From My Point Of View
138 FMTYEWTK Far More Than You Ever Wanted To Know
139 FO F*** Off
140 FOAF Friend Of A Friend
141 FOMCL Falling Off My Chair Laughing
142 FTASB Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
143 FTBOMH From The Bottom Of My Heart
144 FTL Faster Than Light
145 FTTB For The Time Being
146 FUBAR F***ed Up Beyond All Repair (or
Recognition)
147 FUBB F***ed Up Beyond Belief
148 FUBR F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition
149 FUD (spreading) Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
(or Disinformation)
150 FWIW For What It's Worth
151 FYA For Your Amusement
152 FYI For Your Information
153 FYM For Your Misinformation
154 G Grin
155 GA Go ahead
156 GAL Get A Life
157 GD&R Grinning, Ducking and Running (after
snide remark)
158 GF Girlfriend
159 GFN Gone For Now
160 GG Good Game or Gotta Go
161 GGP Gotta Go Pee
162 GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out
163 GIWIST Gee, I Wish I'd Said That
164 GL Good Luck
165 GLYASDI God Loves You And So Do I
166 GMAB Give Me A Break
167 GMBO Giggling My Butt Off
168 GMTA Great Minds Think Alike
169 GMTA Think Alike Grinning
170 GNBLFY Got Nothing But Love For You
171 GOL Giggling Out Loud
172 GR&D Grinning Running And Ducking
173 GR8 Great
174 GRD Running And Ducking
175 GRRRR Growling
176 GSOAS Go Sit On A Snake
177 GTG Got To Go (great minds)
178 GTGB Got To Go, Bye
179 GTGP Got To Go Pee
180 GTH Go To Hell
181 GTRM Going To Read Mail
182 GTSY Glad To See You (or Ya)
183 GWIST Gee, i Wish I had Said That
184 GYPO Get Your Pants Off
185 H&K Hug and kiss
186 HABUN Have A Better 'Un
187 HAGN Have A Good Night
188 HAGO Have A Good One
189 HAGUN Have A Good 'Un
190 HAK Hugs And Kisses
191 HAND Have A Nice Day
192 HB Hurry Back
193 HD Hold
194 HHIS Hanging Head In Shame
195 HHO1/2K Ha Ha, Only Half Kidding
196 HHOK Ha Ha, Only Kidding
197 HIG How's It Going
198 HIOOC Help! I'm Out of Coffee
199 HT Hi There
200 HTH Hope This (That) Helps
201 HUA Heads Up Ace
202 HUB Head Up Butt
203 HUYA Head Up Your A**
204 IAC In Any Case
205 IAE In Any Event
206 IANAC I Am Not A Crook
207 IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer (But...)
208 IBT In Between Technology
209 IBTD I Beg To Differ
210 IC In Character
211 IC I See
212 IDGAF I Don't Give A F***
213 IDGI I Don't Get It
214 IDK I Don't Know
215 IDKY I Don't Know You
216 IDST I Didn't Say That
217 IDTS I Don't Think So
218 IFAB I Found A Bug
219 IFU I F***ed Up
220 IGGP I Gotta Go Pee
221 IGP I Gotta Pee
222 IHA I Hate Acronyms
223 IHU I Hear You
224 IIIO Intel Inside, Idiot Outside
225 IIMAD If It Makes An(y) Difference
226 IIRC If I Recall (or Remember or Recollect)
Correctly
227 IIWM If It Were Me
228 ILU I Love you
229 ILY I Love You
230 IM Immediate Message
231 IMAO In My Arrogant Opinion
232 IMCO In My Considered Opinion
233 IMHO In My Humble Opinion
234 IMing Chatting with someone online usually
while doing other things such as playing trivia or other interactive
game
235 IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
236 IMO In My Opinion
237 IMOH I'm Outta Here
238 IMS I Am Sorry
239 INMP It's Not My Problem
240 INPO In No Particular Order
241 IOH I'm Outta Here
242 IOW In Other Words
243 IPN I'm Posting Naked
244 IRL In Real Life (that is, when not chatting)
245 ISS I Said So
246 ITIGBS I Think I'm Going To Be Sick
247 ITM In The Money
248 IWALU I Will Always Love You
249 IWALY I Will Always Love You
250 IYKWIM If You Know What I Mean
251 IYKWIMAITYD If You Know What I Mean And I Think You Do
252 IYSS If You Say So
253 IYSWIM If You See What I Mean
254 J/C Just Checking
255 J/K Just Kidding!
256 J/W Just Wondering
257 J4G Just for Grins
258 JAFO Just Another F***ing Onlooker
259 JBOD Just a Bunch Of Disks (like redundant
array of independent disks, etc.)
260 JIC Just In Case
261 JK Just Kidding
262 JMO Just My Opinion
263 JOOTT Just One Of Those Things
264 JTLYK Just To Let You Know
265 KFY Kiss For You
266 KISS Keep It Simple Stupid
267 KIT Keep In Touch
268 KMA Kiss My A**
269 KOC Kiss On Cheek
270 KOL Kiss On Lips
271 KOTC Kiss On The Cheek
272 KOTL Kiss On The Lips
273 KWIM Know What I Mean
274 KYPO Keep Your Pants On
275 L8R Later (see you later)
276 L8RG8R Later 'Gater
277 LD Later, Dude
278 LD Long Distance
279 LDR Long-Distance Relationship
280 LDTTWA Let's Do The Time Warp Again
281 LHO Laughing Head Off
282 LHU Lord Help Us
283 LLTA Lots And Lots Of Thunderous Applause
284 LMAO Laughing My A** Off
285 LMK Let Me Know
286 LMSO Laughing My Socks Off
287 LOL Laughing Out Loud
288 LOL Lots of Luck
289 LOL Lots of Love
290 LRF Little Rubber Feet (=the little pads on
the bottom of displays and other equipment)
291 LSHMBH Laughing So Hard My Belly Hurts
292 LTIC Laughing 'Til I Cry
293 LTM Laugh To Myself
294 LTNS Long Time No See
295 LTR Long-Term Relationship
296 LTS Laughing To Self
297 LULAB Love You Like A Brother
298 LULAS Love You Like A Sister
299 LUWAMH Love You With All My Heart
300 LY Love Ya
301 LY4E Love Ya Forever
302 LYL Love Ya Lots
303 LYLAS Love You Like A Sister
304 LYWAMH Love You With All My Heart
305 MHOTY My Hat's Off To You
306 MM Market Maker
307 MorF Male or Female?
308 MOSS Member Of The Same sex
309 MOTD Message Of The Day
310 MOTOS Member Of The Opposite Sex
311 MOTSS Members Of The Same Sex
312 MTF More To Follow
313 MTFBWY May The Force Be With You
314 MUSM Miss You So Much
315 MWBRL More Will Be Revealed Later
316 MYOB Mind Your Own Business
317 N/P No Problem
318 NADT Not A Darn Thing
319 NAK Nursing At Keyboard
320 NAZ Name, Address, Zip (also means Nasdaq)
321 NBD No Big Deal
322 NBIF No Basis In Fact
323 NFG No F***ing Good
324 NFI No F***ing Idea
325 NFW No Feasible (or F***ing) way
326 NG New Game
327 NIFOC Naked (or Nude) In Front Of Computer
328 NM Never Mind
329 NMP Not My Problem
330 NOYB None Of Your Business
331 NP No Problem
332 NQOCD Not Quite Our Class Dear
333 NRG Energy
334 NRN No Response (or Reply) Necessary
335 NYCFS New York City Finger Saluet
336 OAUS On An Unrelated Subject
337 OBTW Oh By The Way
338 OIC Oh, I see
339 OIS Oh, I See
340 OK OK
341 OL Old Lady (=significant other)
342 OLL Online Love
343 OM Old Man (=significant other)
344 OMDB Over My Dead Body
345 OMG Oh My God (or Gosh)
346 OMIK Open Mouth, Insert Keyboard
347 ONNA Oh No, Not Again
348 OOC Out Of Character
349 OOTB Out Of The Box (or Out Of The Blue)
350 OT Off Topic
351 OTF Off The Floor
352 OTOH On The Other Hand
353 OTTOMH Off The Top Of My Head
354 OWTTE Or Words To That Effect
355 OZ (stands for "Australia")
356 PANS Pretty Awesome New Stuff (as opposed
to "POTS")
357 PAW Parents Are Watching
358 PCMCIA People Can'T Master Computer Industry
Acronyms
359 PDA Public Display Of Affection
360 PDS Please Don't Shoot
361 PEBCAK Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard
362 PIBKAC Problem Is Between Keyboard And Chair
363 PIMP Peeing In My Pants
364 PITA Pain In The back (A***)
365 PLS Please
366 PM Private Message
367 PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In (another polite
way to get into a running discussion)
368 PMFJIB Pardon Me For Jumping In But...
369 PMJI Pardon My Jumping In (another polite way
to get into a running discussion)
370 PMP Peed My Pants
371 PO Piss Off
372 POAHF Put On A Happy Face
373 POTS Plain Old Telephone Service
374 POV Point Of View
375 PS Post Script
376 PU that stinks!
377 QSL Reply
378 QSO Conversation
379 QT Cutie
380 RBTL Read Between The Lines
381 RL Real Life (that is, when not chatting)
382 RLF Real Life Friend
383 RMLB Read My Lips Baby
384 RMMM Read My Mail Man!
385 RN Right Now!
386 ROR Raffing Out Roud (Engrish for "laughing
out loud")
387 ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A** Off
388 ROTFLMAOWPIMP Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A** Off
While Peeing In My Pants
389 ROTFLMBO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Butt Off
390 ROTM Right On The Money
391 RPG Role-playing games
392 RSN Real Soon Now
393 RT Real time
394 RTFM Read The Fine (or F***ing) Manual
395 RTK Return To Keyboard
396 RTM Read The Manual
397 RU Are You?
398 RYO Roll Your Own (write your own program;
derived from cigarettes rolled yourself with tobacco and paper)
399 S4L Spam for Life (what you may get when you
become someone's customer or client)
400 SBTA Sorry, Being Thick Again
401 SEG S***-Eating Grin
402 SETE Smiling Ear To Ear
403 SF Surfer-Friendly (=low-graphics Web site)
404 SH Stuff (or Sh**) Happens
405 SHCOON Shoot Hot Coffee Out Of Nose
406 SHID Slaps Head In Disgust
407 SITD Still In The Dark
408 SNAFU Situation Normal, All F***ed Up
409 SO Significant Other
410 SOHF Sense Of Humor Failure
411 SOL Smiling Out Loud (or Sh*t Out Of Luck)
412 SOMY Sick Of Me Yet?
413 SOT Short Of Time
414 SOTMG Short Of Time Must Go
415 SPAM Stupid Persons' AdvertiseMent
416 SSDD Same Sh** Different Day
417 STFU Shut The F*** Up
418 STFW Search The Fine (or F***ing) Web
419 STM Spank The Monkey
420 STW Search the Web
421 STYS Speak To You Soon
422 SU Shut Up
423 SUAKM Shut Up And Kiss Me
424 SUP What's Up? (=hello)
425 SUYF Shut Up You Fool
426 SWAG Stupid (or Scientific) Wild-A** guess
427 SWAK Sent (or Sealed) With A Kiss
428 SWALK Sealed With A Loving Kiss
429 SWDYT So What Do You Think?
430 SWL Screaming With Laughter
431 SYS See You Soon
432 S^ S'up (=what's up)
433 TA Thanks Again
434 TAFN That's All For Now
435 TAH Take A Hike
436 TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
(TANSTAAFL is credited to Robert Heinlein, science fiction writer)
437 TARFU Things Are Really F***ed Up
438 TCOY Take Care Of Yourself
439 TDTM Talk Dirty To Me
440 TEOTWAWKI The End Of The World As We Know It
441 TFH Thread From Hell (a discussion that just
won't die and is often irrelevant to the purpose of the forum or group)
442 TFN Thanks For Nothin'
443 TGIF Thank God It's Friday
444 THX Thanks
445 THKS Thanks
446 TIA Thanks In Advance (used if you post a
question and are expecting a helpful reply)
447 TIAIL Think I Am In Love
448 TIC Tongue in Cheek
449 TILII Tell It Like It Is
450 TLA Three Letter Acronym
451 TLGO The List Goes On
452 TLK2UL8R Talk To You Later
453 TM Trust Me
454 TMI Too Much Information
455 TMTOWTDI There's More Than One Way To Do It
456 TNT Till Next Time
457 TOPCA Til Our Paths Cross Again
458 TOY Thinking Of You
459 TPTB The Powers That Be
460 TSR Totally Stuck in RAM
461 TTFN Ta Ta For Now
462 TTT Thought That, Too (when someone types in
what you were about to type)
463 TTT That's The Ticket (or To The Top)
464 TTYL Talk To You Later
465 TU Thank you
466 TWHAB This Won't Hurt A Bit
467 TX Thanks
468 TY Thank You
469 TYVM Thank You Very Much
470 UAPITA You're A Pain In The A**
471 unPC unPolitically Correct
472 URYY4M You Are Too Wise For Me
473 UW You're Welcome
474 VBG Very Big Grin
475 VBSEG Very Big S***-Eating Grin
476 VFM Value For Money
477 WAG Wild-Assed Guess
478 WAI What An Idiot
479 WAYD What Are You Doing
480 WB Welcome Back
481 WBS Write back soon
482 WCA Who Cares Anyway
483 WDALYIC Who Died And Left You In Charge?
484 WDYS What Did You Say?
485 WDYT What Do You Think?
486 WE Whatever
487 WEG Wicked Evil Grin
488 WFM Works For Me
489 WG Wicked Grin
490 WGAFF Who Gives A Flying F***
491 WIBNI Wouldn't It Be Nice If
492 WIIFM What's In It For Me?
493 WIT Wordsmith In Training
494 WITFITS What In The F*** Is This Sh**
495 WOG Wise Old Guy
496 WRT With Respect (or Regard) To
497 WT? What/who the ?
498 WTF What The F***!
499 WTFO What the F***! Over!
500 WTG Way To Go!
501 WTGP? Want To Go Private?
502 WTH what the Hell (or Heck)
503 WTSDS Where The Sun Doesn't Shine
504 WU? What's Up?
505 WUF? Where are you From?
506 WYP What's Your Problem?
507 WYRN What's Your Real Name?
508 WYS Whatever You Say
509 WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
510 WYT Whatever You Think
511 YA Yet Another
512 YA yaya Yet Another Ya-Ya (as in yo-yo)
513 YAFIYGI You Asked For It You Got It
514 YBS You'll Be Sorry
515 YDKM You Don't Know Me
516 YG Young Gentleman
517 YGBK You Gotta Be Kiddin'
518 YGBSM You Gotta Be S***tin' Me!
519 YL Young Lady
520 YM Young Man
521 YMMV Your Mileage May Vary (or you may not
have the same luck I did)
522 YNK You Never Know
523 YOYO You're On Your Own
524 YR Yeah Right
525 YSYD Yeah, Sure You Do
526 YTTT You Telling The Truth?
527 YW You're Welcome
528 YWIA You Are Welcome In Advance
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chat abbreviations
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Acronyms
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