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1 *S* *Smile*
2 10Q Thank You
3 1FTR One For The Road
4 24/7 24 hours a day; 7 days a week
5 A/S/L? Age/Sex/Location?
6 A/S? Age/Sex?
7 AAMOF As A Matter Of Fact
8 ACK Acknowledgement
9 ACRONYM Abbreviated Coded Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning
10 ADD Attention Deficit Disorder
11 ADHD Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
12 ADN Any Day Now
13 AFAIAC As Far As I Am Concerned
14 AFAICR As Far As I Can Recall
15 AFAICT As Far As I Can Tell
16 AFAIK As Far As I Know
17 AFAIR As Far As I Remember/Recall
18 AFAIUI As Far As I Understand It
19 AFJ April Fools' Joke
20 AFK Away From The Keyboard; Away For A Kwickie
21 AFL AbsoFreakinLutely
22 AFOG Another Fucking Opportunity for Growth
23 AHPF All Hail Pass Fail (via MIT)
24 YA x AICMFP You are x and I claim my five pounds (Britishism; via old newspaper promo)
25 AISB As I Said Before
26 AISE As I Said Earlier
27 AISI As I See It
28 AIUI As I Understand It
29 AIW As It Were/Was
30 AKA Also Known As
31 AMAP As Much/Many As Possible
32 ANFAWFOS And Now For A Word From Our Sponsor
33 ANSI American National Standards Institute
34 AOB Any Other Business
35 AP Age Play
36 APAC All Praise And Credit
37 API Application Program Interface
38 ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency
39 AS Another Subject
40 ASAP As Soon As Possible
41 ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
42 ASL Age-Sex-Location
43 ASNWS A Simple No Would Suffice
44 ATB All The Best
45 ATK At The Keyboard
46 ATLA Another Three Letter Acronym
47 ATM At The Moment
48 ATSL Along The Same Lines
49 ATTN Attention
50 ATTYOB Anything That Turns You On Baby
51 AUP Acceptable Use Policy
52 AWCIGO And Where Can I Get One
53 AWGTHTGTATA Are We Going To Have To Go Through All This/That Again
54 AWGTHTGTTA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This/That Again
55 AWHFY Are We Having Fun Yet
56 AWOL Absent Without Official Leave
57 AYBABTU All Your Base Are Belong To Us
58 AYMK As You May Know
59 AYT Are You There
60 B&D Bondage and Discipline
61 B/C Because
62 B4 Before
63 B4N Bye For Now
64 BAC By Any Chance
65 BAD Broken As Designed
66 BAG Busting A Gut
67 BAGL Busting A Gut Laughing
68 BAK Back At Keyboard
69 BBB Busy Beyond Belief
70 BBFN Bye Bye For Now
71 BBIAB Be Back In A Bit
72 BBIAS Be Back In A Sec
73 BBL [I'll] Be Back Later
74 BBM Big Beautiful Man
75 BBR Burnt Beyond Repair
76 BBS Bulletin Board System / Be Back Soon
77 BBT Be Back Tomorrow
78 BBW Big Beautiful Woman
79 BC Basket Case
80 BCC Blind Carbon Copy
81 BCNU Be Seein' You
82 BDSM Bondage & Discipline, Dominance & Submission, Sado-Masochism
83 BDSMLMNOP BDSM and whatever else we might do
84 BEG Big Evil Grin
85 BF Boy Friend
86 BFD Big Fucking Deal
87 BFH Bastard From Hell
88 BFMI Brute Force and Massive Ignorance
89 BFN Bye For Now
90 BFNN Bizarre Format with No Name (document format)
91 BG Big Grin
92 BI Breidbart Index [the SPAM index of a Usenet post]
93 BIAB Back In A Bit
94 BIAF Back In A Few
95 BIALW back in a little while
96 BIAS Back In A Second
97 BIAW Back In A While
98 BIC Best In Class
99 BIL Brother In Law
100 BION Believe It Or Not
101 BIOYIOP Blow It Out Your Input Output Port
102 BITD Back In The Day
103 BITD Beaten It To Death
104 BK Because
105 BMHATK Banging My Head Against The Keyboard
106 BMHATW Banging My Head Against The Wall
107 BMOC Big Man On Campus
108 BMTA Brilliant Minds Think Alike
109 BMTIPG Brilliant Minds Think In Parallel Gutters
110 BNF Big Name Fan
111 BOC But Of Course
112 BOF Birds Of a Feather
113 BOFH Bastard Operator From Hell
114 BOHICA Bend Over, Here It Comes Again
115 BOHOF Back Of Hand On Forehead
116 BOS Big Orange Switch
117 BOT Back On Topic
118 BOTEC Back Of The Envelope Calculation
119 BPD Borderline Personality Disorder
120 BRB [I'll] Be Right Back
121 BRS Big Red Switch
122 BRT Be Right There
123 BSG Big Smiling Grin; Broad Sweeping Generalisation
124 BSOD Blue Screen of Death (Windows NT, et al.)
125 BSTS Better Safe Than Sorry
126 BTA But Then Again
127 BTAICBW But Then Again I Could Be Wrong
128 BTAIM Be That As It May
129 BTDT Been There, Done That
130 BTDTGTTS Been There, Done That, Got The T-Shirt
131 BTOBD Be There Or Be Dead
132 BTOBS Be There Or Be Square
133 BTSOOM Beats The Shit Out Of Me
134 BTTH Butt To The Head
135 BTTP Back To The Point
136 BTW By The Way
137 BWG Big Wide Grin
138 BWQ Buzz Word Quotient
139 BY BusY
140 BYKT But You Know/Knew That
141 BYKTA But You Know/Knew That Already
142 BYOB Bring Your Own Bottle/Booze
143 C&P Copy & Paste
144 C/O Care Of
145 CADET Can't Add Doesn't Even Try
146 CB Call Back
147 CB Chastity Belt
148 CBT Cock and Ball Torture/Training
149 CC Carbon Copy
150 CCWC Can't Cook Won't Cook
151 CD Cross Dresser
152 CE Creative Editing
153 CERT Computer Emergency Response Team
154 CFD Call For Discussion
155 CFV Call For Votes
156 CG Cute Grin
157 CGI Common Gateway Interface
158 CHOWUR See HOW yoU aRe
159 CHUR See How yoU aRe
160 CIAC Computer Incident Advisory Capability
161 CIAO goodbye [pronounced Chow]
162 CIC Christ I'm Confused
163 CIO Cut It Out
164 CIS Complete and Irrevocable Submission
165 CLAB Crying Like A Baby
166 CLM Career Limiting Move
167 CMIIW Correct Me If I'm Wrong
168 CNC Consensual Non Consent
169 CNP Continued [In My] Next Post
170 CO Clothing Optional
171 COD Cash On Delivery
172 COTFLGUOAHAHA Crawling On The Floor Laughing Guts Out And Having A Heart Attack
173 COTS Commercial Off The Shelf
174 CP Corporal Punishment
175 CPF Can Pigs Fly
176 CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check
177 CS Cop Shop
178 CTS Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
179 CTTD Cute Things They Do
180 CTTOI Come To Think Of It
181 CTTS Cute Things They Say
182 CU See You
183 CUL See You Later
184 CUL8R See yoU LateR
185 CW Continuous Wave (the carrier type used for Morse code communications)
186 CW Conventional Wisdom
187 CWYL Chat With You Later
188 CYA Cover Your Ass
189 CYA See Ya
190 CYA See You Around
191 CYL See You Later
192 CYT Cute Young Thing
193 C|N>K "Coffee (piped through) Nose, (redirected to) Keyboard"
194 D&W Ducking And Weaving
195 D/L Download
196 D/S or D/s Dominance and Submission
197 DADT Don't Ask, Don't Tell
198 DAP Parents Against Dyslexia :)
199 DARFC Ducking And Running For Cover
200 DBA Doing Business As
201 DBT Dialectical Behavior Therapy
202 DEB Don't Even Bother
203 DFM Don't Flame Me
204 DFU Don't Forget Units
205 DGT Don't Go There
206 DID Dissociative Identity Disorder (used to be MPD)
207 DIIK Damned If I Know
208 DIIN Damned If I kNow
209 DILLIGAFF Do I Look Like I Give A Flying Fuck
210 DIM Do It Myself
211 DIY Do It Yourself
212 DK Don't Know
213 DKF Dreaded Koosh Flogger
214 DL DownLoad
215 DLG Devilish Little Grin
216 DLTDHYITAOYWO Dont Let The Door Hit You In The Ass On Your Way Out
217 DMQ Do-Me Queen
218 DNA Did Not Answer
219 DNDK Don't Know, Don't Care
220 DNO Do Not Open [used in the subject line of a test post or email]
221 DNPM Damn Near Pissed Myself
222 DNS Domain Name System
223 DOA Dead On Arrival
224 DOB Date Of Birth
225 DOM Dirty Old Man
226 DOS Disk Operating System
227 DOYC Deity Of Your Choice
228 DOYKB Down On Your Knees, Bitch
229 DQOTD Dumb Question Of The Day
230 DSW Dick Size War
231 DTA Don't Trust Anybody
232 DTOKAB Drop To One Knee And Bow
233 DTP DeskTop Publishing
234 DTRT Do The Right Thing (contrast with DTWT)
235 DTTAH Don't Try This At Home
236 DTWT Do The Wrong Thing (contrast with DTRT)
237 DTYD Drink Till You Drop (party at MIT)
238 DUCWIC Do YoU See What I See
239 DUK Dead Upon Keyboard
240 DWAI Don't Worry About It
241 DWIM Do What I Mean
242 DWIMC Do What I Mean Correctly
243 DWIMNWIS Do What I Mean Not What I Say
244 DWISNWID Do What I Say Not What I Do
245 DWIW Do What I Want
246 DWYW Do What You Want
247 DYE Damn Your Eyes
248 DYHWIH Do You Hear What I Hear
249 DYSWIS Do You See What I See
250 DoS Denial of Service
251 E&OE Errors And Omissions Excepted
252 E2EG Ear to Ear Grin
253 EANAB Equally Attractive Non-Alcoholic Beverage
254 ECP Excessive Cross Posting
255 ED Emotionally Disturbed
256 EDP Emotionally Disturbed Person
257 EG Evil Grin
258 EGBOK Everything is Going to Be OK
259 EIF Exercise In Futility
260 EIP Everything Is Permissible
261 EMFBI Excuse Me For Butting In
262 EMSG email message
263 EOB End Of Business
264 EOD End Of Discussion
265 EOD Explosive Ordnance Disposal
266 EOF End Of File
267 EOL End Of Lecture
268 EOM End Of Message
269 EOT End Of Thread
270 EPID Every Person Is Different
271 ESOSL Endless Snorts Of Stupid Laughter
272 ESP ESPecially
273 ETA Estimated Time Of Arrival
274 ETLA Extended Three Letter Acronym
275 ETOPS Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim (powerboats)
276 EWAG Experienced Wild-Ass Guess
277 F2F Face To Face
278 FA Fat Admirer, one who prefers a fat sexual/romantic partner
279 FAIK For All I Know
280 FAQ Frequently Asked Question(s)
281 FCFS First Come First Served
282 FCOL For Crying Out Loud
283 FDROTFL Falling Down Rolling On The Floor Laughing
284 FF Fist Fucking
285 FFR For Future Reference
286 FGM Female Genital Mutilation
287 FIAWOL Fandom Is A Way Of Life
288 FICCL Frankly I Couldn't Care Less
289 FIIK Fuck[ed] If I Know
290 FIIR fuck[ed] If I Remember
291 FIL Father In Law
292 FIOFY Figure It Out For Yourself
293 FIRST Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams
294 FISH First In Still Here
295 FITB Fill In The Blank
296 FLEA Four Letter Extended Acronym
297 FLT Fermat's Last Theorem
298 FM Fibromyalgia
299 FMTYEWTK Far More Than You Ever Wanted To Know
300 FOAD Fuck Off And Die
301 FOAF Friend Of A Friend
302 FOAFOAG Father Of A Friend Of A Girlfriend
303 FOAG Father Of A Girlfriend
304 FOD Finger Of Death
305 FOS Freedom Of Speech
306 FOT Full Of Tripe
307 FOTCL Falling Off The Chair Laughing
308 FRZ Fruitin' Religious Zealot
309 FSD Fools Seldom Differ
310 FSDO For Some Definition Of
311 FSVO For Some Value Of
312 FTASB Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
313 FTF Face To Face
314 FTL Faster Than Light
315 FTM For That Matter (or Female To Male trans)
316 FTMP For The Most Part
317 FTP File Transfer Protocol
318 FTR For The Record
319 FTS Fixin' To Start
320 FTSO Fuck The Skull Of
321 FUBAR Fucked Up Beyond All [Repair|Recognition ]
322 FUD Fear, Uncertainty, And Doubt
323 FURTB Full Up Ready To Burst
324 FWIW For What It's Worth
325 FYA For Your Amusement
326 FYI For Your Information
327 FYIV Fuck You, I'm Vested
328 G Grin
329 GA Go Ahead
330 GAC Get A Clue
331 GAFIA Get Away From It All
332 GAFIATe (to) Get Away From It All
333 GAL Get A Life
334 GBH&K Great Big Hugs & Kisses
335 GBH&KB Great Big Hugs & Kisses Back
336 GCD Greatest Common Divisor
337 GD&R Grinning, Ducking, and Running (after a smart-ass comment)
338 GD&RF Grinning Ducking And Running Fast
339 GD&RVVF Grinning Ducking And Running Very Very Fast
340 GD&W Grinning Ducking And Weaving
341 GF Girlfriend
342 GFR Grim File Reaper
343 GG Genetic Girl
344 GGN Gotta Go Now
345 GGP Gotta Go Pee
346 GHOD General Heuristic Organizing Device
347 GIF Graphical Interchange Format
348 GIGO Garbage In Garbage Out; Garbage In Gospel Out
349 GIWIST Gee I Wish I'd Said That
350 GJP Good Job Partner
351 GL good luck
352 GLBT Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Trans
353 GLG Goofy Little Grin
354 GLGH Good Luck and Good Hunting
355 GMT Greenwich Mean Time [UK Time]
356 GMTA Great Minds Think Alike
357 GOAT Go Away, Troll
358 GOK God Only Knows
359 GOOML Get Out Of My Life
360 GOTFIA Groaning On The Floor In Agony
361 GOWI Get On With It
362 GPF General Protection Fault
363 GRQ Get Rich Quick (a type of spam - compare MMF)
364 GRUIT Get Real yoU Impudent Thing
365 GS Golden Shower
366 GTBOS Glad To Be Of Service
367 GTG Got To Go
368 GTGN Got To Go Now
369 GTP Got To Pee
370 H&K Hugs & Kisses
371 H2 How To
372 HAK Hugs And Kisses
373 HAND Have A Nice Day
374 HCB Holy Cow Batman
375 HHGTTG Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy
376 HHIS Hanging Head In Shame
377 HHO1/2K Ha Ha Only Half Kidding
378 HHOJ Ha Ha Only Joking
379 HHOK Ha Ha, Only Kidding
380 HHOS Ha Ha, Only Serious
381 HHVF Ha Ha, Very Funny
382 HIB__ Have I Been ___________
383 HICA Here It Comes Again
384 HNG Horny Net Geek
385 HOMPR Hang On Mobile Phone's Ringing
386 HOPR Hang On Phone's Ringing
387 HOS Husband Over Shoulder
388 HOUER Hanging On yoUr Every Word
389 HOYER Hanging On Your Every Word
390 HP Home Page
391 HSF (variants: H-S-F, H*S*F) Hand-Staple- Forehead (theatrical angst)
392 HSIK How Should I Know
393 HSP Highly Sensitive Person
394 HTH Hope This Helps (often used with HAND)
395 HTML HyperText Markup Language
396 HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol
397 HW HardWare
398 HWNINS He whose name is not spoken
399 HWP Height and Weight Proportional (i.e.: "normal" build)
400 HWSNBN He Who Should Not Be Named
401 HWWNBN He Who Will Not Be Named
402 IAAA I Am An Accountant
403 IAAD I Am A Doctor
404 IAAL I Am A Lawyer
405 IAC In Any Case
406 IAE In Any Event
407 IAGFII It's All Good Fun Isn't It
408 IAMFI I Ask Merely For Information
409 IAMTA I Ask Merely To Annoy
410 IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
411 IANAA I Am Not An Accountant
412 IANAC I Am Not A Crook
413 IANAD I Am Not A Doctor
414 IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer
415 IANALBIPOOTV I Am Not A Lawyer But I Play One On TV
416 IANYM In A New York Minute
417 IANYS In A New York Second
418 IAP Internet Access Provider
419 IARTPFWTSIOWIM I Am Repeating This Parrot Fashion Without The Slightest Idea Of What It M
420 IAW In Accordance With
421 IAWC In A While Crocodile [usually used to reply to SYLA(cf)]
422 IBC Inadequate But Cute
423 IBM Inadequate But Marketable
424 IBTD I Beg To Differ
425 IC I See
426 ICB I Care Because
427 ICBW I Could Be Wrong
428 ICCL I Couldn't Care Less
429 ICOCBW I Could Of Course Be Wrong
430 ICP Internet Content Provider
431 ICTYBTIHTKY I Could Tell You But Then I'd Have To Kill You
432 ICUR I See yoU aRe
433 ICYWC In Case You Were Curious
434 IDGI I Don't Get It
435 IDIC Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations (via Star Trek)
436 IDK I Don't Know
437 IDTS I Don't Think So

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