Ever wonder WTH some of those little abbreviations mean? Me too!

Some of these are commonly used, others are somewhat less well known. If you choose to use some of these be aware that many people will have no clue what you mean. They too will have to find a list like this one to translate. ;-)

Click a letter to go there:

1FTR One For The Road
2L8 Too Late
404 I have no clue (error message 404, address not found)
^5 High Five
AA Alcoholics Anonymous
AAA Any Advice Appreciated
AAAAA Travel club for alcoholics
AAMOF As A Matter Of Fact
ADGR All Donations Gratefully Received
ADN Any Day Now
AFAIAA As Far As I Am Aware
AFAIC As Far As I'm Concerned
AFAICS As Far As I Can See
AFAICT As Far As I Can Tell
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AFAIR As Far As I Recall
AFAIUI As Far As I Understand It
AFK Away From Keyboard
AGAN As Good As New
AI As If
AIC Ain't It Cool!!!
AISB As I Said Before
AISI As I See It
AIW As It Were
AKA Also Known As
ALOIA A Lot Of It Anyways
AMIGA A Merely Insignificant Game Addiction
ANAWFOS And Now A Word From Our Sponsor
APPLE Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ASWGAFF Ask Someone Who Gives A Flying F-!
A/S/L Age/Sex/ Location
ATM At The Moment
ATTN Attention!
ATS Across The Street
AWGTHTGTTA? Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again?
AWHFY Are We Having Fun Yet?
AWOL Absent Without Official Leave
AYT Are You There?

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B4 Before
B4N Bye for Now
BAK Back At Keyboard
BAMF Bad Assed Mother F-er
BAY Back At You
BAS Big Ass Smile
BASIC Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control
BAY Back At You
BBFN Bye Bye For Now
BBIAB Be Back in a Bit
BBIAF Be Back In A Few
BBL Be Back Later
BBN Bye Bye Now
BBR Burnt Beyond Repair
BBS Be Back Soon
BBS Bulletin Board System
B/C Because
BCC Blind Carbon Copy
BCNU (I'll) Be Seeing You
BEG Big Evil Grin
BF Boyfriend
BFI Brute Force and Ignorance
BFD Big F---in' Deal
BFMI Brute Force and Massive Ignorance
BFN Bye For Now
BFOG Blouse Full Of Goodies
BG Big Grin
BIBO Beer In Beer Out
BIF Basic In Fact
BION Believe It Or Not
BIOYA Blow It Out Your Ass
BIOYIOP Blow It Out Your I/O Port
BITD Beat It To Death
BKA Better Known As
BMOC Big Man On Campus
BOC But Of Course
BOF Birds Of a Feather
BOT Back On Topic
BRB Be Right Back
BRS Big Red Switch
BS Bullshit
BSF But Seriously Folks
BSG Big Silly Grin
BSOD Blue Screen Of Death
BTA But Then Again (in response to IOW)
BTAICBW But Then Again I Could Be Wrong
BTDT Been There Done That
BTDTGAS Been There Done That Got A Shirt
BTL Better Than Life
BTTH Boot To The Head
BTSOOM Beats The Shit Out Of Me
BTW By The Way
BWL Bursting With Laughter
BYKT But You Knew That
BYKTA But You Knew That Already
BYOB Bring Your Own Bottle (booze)

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C&G Chuckle And Grin
C See
CAB Cheap Ass Bastard/Bitch
CB Call Back
CCU Clueless Computer Users
CD-ROM Consumer Device - Rendered Obsolete in Months
CFD Call For Discussion
CFV Call For Votes
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CHUR See How You Are
CICO Coffee In, Coffee Out
CID Crying In Disgrace
CID Consider It Done
CIO Check It Out
CL Cross Link
CLAB Crying Like A Baby
CM Call Me
CMIIW Correct Me If I'm Wrong
CNP Continued (in my) Next Post
Cof$ Church of Scientology
CP Chat Post
CPU Central Processing Unit (The brains of your computer)
CRAFT Can't Remember A F-ing Thing
CRBT Crying Real Big Tears
CSG Chuckle, Snicker, Grin
CU See you
CUL8R See You Later
CYA See Ya!
CYAL8R See You Later
CYM Check Your Mail

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DAY Dreamed About You
DBL Don't Be Long
DDI Don't Do It
DEC Do Expect Cuts
DFG Devilish Fucking Grin
DGUTDJ Don't Give Up The Day Job!
DHB Don't Hurry Back
DIIK Damned If I Know
DILLIGAF? Does It Look Like I Give A F-?
DK Don't Know
DL or D/L Download, transmit to you
DLTBBB Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite
DOS Disk Operating System
DOS Defective Operating System
DQM Don't Quote Me
DQMOT Don't Quote Me On That/This
DTM Does That Mean
DTRT Do The Right Thing
DWBH Don't Worry Be Happy
DWISNWID Do What I Say, Not What I Do
DYJHIW Don't You Just Hate It When
DYSWIS Do You See What I See?

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EDP Emotionally Disturbed Person
EG Evil Grin
EMSG Email Message
EOD End Of Discussion
EOF End Of File
EOT End Of Thread (i.e., don't reply to this message)
ES&D or ESAD Eat S- and Die
ETA Estimated Time of Arrival
ETD Estimated Time of Departure
ETLA Extended Three Letter Acronym

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F2F Face To Face
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FC Fingers Crossed
FDB F-ing Disrespectful Bastard/Bitch
FEIYD For Ever In Your Debt
FFS For Foobars Sake, For F-'s Sake
FIGJAM Fudge I'm Good Just Ask Me (polite form)
FIM Foot In Mouth
FISH First In, Still Here
FITB Fill In The Blank_________
FOAD F- Off And Die
FOAF Friend Of A Friend
FOCL Falls Off Chair Laughing
FR For Real
FTBOMH From The Bottom Of My Heart
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FTG F- This/That Guy/Girl
FTL Follow The Link
FU F-'ed Up
FUBAR F-'ed Up Beyond All Repair (or Recognition)
FUD (Spreading) Fear, Uncertainty, and Disinformation
FWIW For What It's Worth
FYA For Your Amusement
FYDITM F- You Directly In The Mouth
FYEO For Your Eyes Only
FY&TSYRIO F- You And The Sysop You Rode In On
FYI For Your Information
FYM Fix/(F-)Your Mail

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<G> Grin (add <> for bigger grins)
<<<G>>> A BIG GRIN
G2G Got to Go
GA Go Ahead
GAC Get A Clue
GAFIA Get Away From It All
GAG Get A Grip
GAL Get A Life
GBH Great Big Hug or Grievous Bodily Harm
GDYMFAHGTH God Damn You Mother F-ing Ass Hole Go to Hell
GD&R Grinning, Ducking & Running
GF GirlFriend
GFN Gone For Now
GGL Giggle
GH Getting Hard (see GW)
GHM# Give Him/Her My Number
GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIWIST Gee, I Wish I'd Said That
GLGH Good Luck and Good Hunting
GM Good Move
GMTA Great Minds Think Alike
GMBO Giggling My Butt Off
GOLL Getting/Got One Long List
GR&D Grinning, Running & Ducking
GTG Got To Go
GTH Go To Hell
GTH Go To Him/Her
GTSY Glad To See You
GW Getting Wet (see GH)
GYPO Get Your Pants Off

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H&K Hugs & Kisses
<H > Hug
HABU Have A Better Un
HAGN Have A Good Night
HAGO Have A Good One
HAGU Have A Good 'Un
HAND Have A Nice Day
HAS Hip Ass Slang
HB Hurry Back or Hug Back
HHIS Hanging Head In Shame
HIWTH Hate It When That Happens
HSH Home Sweet Home
HTFSIKG How the F- Should I Know Girl/Guy??
HTH Hope This Helps
HYU Hook You Up
HUB Head Up Butt
HWISTKT How Was I Supposed To Know That?

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IA Important Acronym
IAE In Any Event
IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer
IBALD It's Been A Long Day
IBM Inadequate Business Management
IBM I Blame Microsoft
IC I See
ICBW I Could Be Wrong
ICQ I Seek You
ICYDK In Case You Didn't Know
IDK I Don't Know
IDTIW I Don't Think I'm Wrong
IDTT I'll Drink To That!
IFU I F'd Up
IGP I Gotta Pee
IIDKB If I Didn't Know Better
IIR If I Recall
IIRC If I Remember Correctly
IITYWIMIWHTKY If I Tell You What It Means, I Will Have To Kill You
IITYWIMWYBMAD If I Tell You What It Means, Will You Buy Me A Drink?
IIWY If I Were You
IKWYM I Know What You Mean
ILY I Love You
IM Instant Message
IMAO In My Arrogant Opinion
IMCO In My Considered Opinion
IMD14U I'm The One For You
IME In My Experience
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
IMOBO In My Own Biased Opinion
INPO In No Particular Order
IOH I'm Outta Here
IOW In Other Words
IRC Internet Relay Chat
IRL In Real Life
IRMC I Rest My Case
ISC I Stand Corrected
ISDN It Still Does Nothing
ISMW I Shot My Wad
ISP Internet Service Provider
ISTM It Seems To Me
ISTR I Seem To Recall
ISWYM I See What You Mean
ITRW In The Real World
IWALU I Will Always Love You
IWBNI It Would Be Nice If
IWFM It Works For Me
IWW?I Wonder Why?
IYDMMA If You Don't Mind Me Asking
IYFEG Insert Your Favorite Ethnic Group
IYKWIM If You Know What I Mean
IYO In Your Opinion

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JAM Just A Minute
JFTR Just For The Record
JK Just Kidding
JMO Just My Opinion
JMTCW Just My Two Cents Worth
JOKE Just One Kidding Everyone
JOT Just One Thought
JSNM Just Stark Naked Magic
JTFM Just The Facts, Mister/Madam
JTLYK Just To Let You Know
JTFM Just The Fact, Man/Mam

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K Okay
KISS Keep it Simple, Stupid
KIT Keep In Touch
KMA Kiss My Ass
KMYF Kiss Me You Fool
KOC Kiss On Cheek (also KOTC)
KOL Kiss On Lips (also KOTL)
KYPO Keep Your Pants On

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L Laugh
L8R Later
L8RG8R Later 'Gater
L&ML Lies and More Lies
LAB&TYD Life's A Bitch & Then You Die.
LAP Long Ass Posts/Pictures
LHM Lord Help Me
LHO Laughing Head Off
LHU Lord Help Us
LI Laughing Insanely
LIS Laughing In Silence
LLTA Lots and Lots of Thunderous Applause
LMAO Laughing My Ass Off
LMK Let Me Know
LMSO Laughing My Socks Off
LOL Laughing Out Loud
LSHMBB Laughing So Hard My Belly is Bouncing
LSHMBH Laughing So Hard My Belly Hurts
LSHMFIC Laughing So Hard My Face Is Crampin'
LSHTTARD Laughing So Hard The Tears Are Running Down
LTNS Long Time No See
LTS Laughing To Self
LUWAMH Love You With All My Heart
LY Love Ya
LYWAMH Love You With All My Heart

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MACINTOSH Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs
MD My Dope
MHOTY My Hat's Off To You
MHBFY My Heart Bleeds For You
MICROSOFT Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers
MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface
MIPS Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed
MorF (M/F) Male or Female
MOF Matter of Fact
MOTD Message Of The Day
MOTOS Member of the Opposite Sex
MOTSS Member of the Same Sex
MSG Message
MTBF Mean Time Between Failures
MTF More To Follow
MUD Multi-User Dungeon
MYOB Mind Your Own Business
MYW Makes You Wonder

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N/A Not Applicable
NA Narcotics Anonymous
NADT Not A Damn Thing
NBIF No Basis In Fact
NC No Comment
NFW No F-'ing Way
NIFOC Nude In Front Of The Computer
NIMBY Not In My Back Yard
NM Never Mind
NNTA No Need To Answer
NP No Problem
NPD No Problem Dude (Dudette)
NRN No Reply Necessary
NRP None Real-time Processor
NTOOT Nine Times Out Of Ten
NTW Not To Worry
NWIH No Way In Hell

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OAO Over And Out
OBTW Oh, By The Way
OFGS Oh, For Goodness (God's) Sake
OIAM One In A Million
OIC Oh, I See
OL Old Lady (significant other)
OM Old Man (significant other)
OMG Oh My God
OOFA One Other F-ing Acronym
OOTB Out Of The Blue or Out Of The Box
OOTC Obligatory On Topic Comment
OPM Other Peoples Money
OS Operating System
OS/2 Obsolete Soon, Too
OT Off Topic
OTF On The Floor
OTOH On The Other Hand
OTP On The Phone
OTT Off The Topic
OTTOMH Off The Top Of My Head
OYA On Your Ass

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PCYLIHOONL Please Cross Your Legs, I Have Only One Nail Left
PD Public Domain
PDA Public Display Of Attention
PDQ Pretty Damn Quick
PDS Please Don't Shoot
PEBCAK Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard
PEBKAC Problems Exist Between Keyboard And Chair
PENTIUM Produces Erroneous Numbers Thru Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics
PICNIC Problem In Chair Not In Computer
PIMP Peeing In My Pants
PITA Pain In The Ass
PM Private Message
PMFBI Pardon Me For Butting In
PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In
PMP Pee'd My Pants
POAHF Put On A Happy Face
POS People/Parent Over Shoulder (watching)
POS Point Of Sale
POS Pile/Piece Of S-
POSSLQ Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters
POV Point Of View
PPNE Please Post No Email
PPL People
PS Post Script

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Q Question
QSL Reply
QSO Conversation
QT Cutie
QTAB Cute As A Button
QTP Cutie Pie

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R Are
RCI Rectal-Cranial Inversion
RE Regarding
RHP Read His/Her Post
RISC Reduced Into Silly Code
RME Rolling My Eyes
ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing
ROTFLAHMS ROTFL And Holding My Side
ROTFLAPMP ROTFL And Peeing My Pants
ROTFLMAO ROTFL My Ass Off
ROTFLMAOAY ROTFL My Ass Off At You
ROTFLMAOWTIME ROTFL My Ass Off With Tears In My Eyes
ROTFLUTS ROTFL Unable To Speak
RPTS Repost That S-/Stuff
RSF Right Said Fred! (the Janitor :)
RSN Real Soon Now
RTFM Read The F-'ing Manual
RTM Read The Manual
RTI Real Time Interruption
RU Are You?
RU4R Are You For Real?
RUOK Are You OK?

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SARO Smart Ass Reply Only
SAYL Sorry About Your Luck
SBPH Should Be Posted Here
SCSI System Can't See It
SETE Smile Ear To Ear
Sh8 Shit
SHID Slaps Head In Disgust
SID So I Do/Did
SIS Smokin Is Smokin
SITD Still In The Dark
SMH Shaking My Head
SMO Serious Mode On or Safe Mode Only
SMOff Serious Mode Off
SNAFU Situation Normal; All F-'ed Up
SNERP Snot-Nosed Egotistical Rude Person
SNERT Snot-Nosed Egotistical Rude Teenager
SO Significant Other
SOB Son Of a B****h
SOHF Sense Of Humor Failure
SOL S**t Out of Luck (or Sooner Or Later)
SOMY Sick Of Me Yet?
SOS Same Old S**t/Stuff
SOT Short Of Time
SOTMG Short Of Time Must Go
SRHI So Rumor Has It
STB Simply The Best
ST-TNG Star Trek, The Next Generation
ST-TOS Star Trek, The Original Series
SWAG Scientific Wild Ass Guess
SWAK Sealed With A Kiss
SWGAS Someone Who Gives a S**t
SWL Screaming With Laughter
SWMBO She Who Must Be Obeyed
SYS See You Soon
SYSOP SYStem Operator

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TA The Acronoym or Thanks Again
TAFN That's All For Now
TAL Thanks A Lot
TANJ There Ain't No Justice
TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TARFU Things Are Really F'd Up
TAT Turnaround Time
TBIB The Bitch Is Back
TC Telephone Call
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
TCOY Take Care Of Yourself
TDM Too Damn Many
TEOFWAWKI The End of the World As We Know It
TFS Thanks For Sharing
TGIF Thank God It's Friday
TIA Thanks In Advance
TIAFI Tried It And F- It
TIATLG Truly, I Am The Living/Loving God
TIC Tongue In Cheek
TILII Tell It Like It Is
TITBTTHSF This Is The Best Thing That Happened So Far
TITC This Is The Crosslink
TGIF Thank God Its Friday
TLA Three Letter Acronym
TLG The Living God
TMBCU Till My Bowels Cramp Up
TMF To Much Fun
TMTT Too Much To Type
TNSTAAFL There's No Such Thing As Free Lunch
TNT Till Next Time
TNTL Trying Not To Laugh
TNX Thanks
TVHNTL Trying Very Hard Not To Laugh
TNTPIMP Trying Not To Pee In My Pants
TRRHNTPIMP Trying Really Really Hard Not To Pee In My Pants
TOY Thinking Of You
TPTB The Powers That Be
TTBOMK To The Best Of My Knowledge
TTFN Ta Ta For Now
TTFS Try This For Size
TTT Time To Twist
TTUL Talk (or Type) To You Later
TTYL Talk To You Later
TTYS Talk To You Soon
TW Two Weeks
TWBAR That Would Be A Riot
TWIS That's What I Said/Stated
TX Thanks
TYVM Thank You Very Much

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U You
UL or U/L Upload, send to the BBS
unPC unPolitically Correct
URL Universal Resource Locator

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VBG Very Big Grin
VBS Very Big Smile
VC Virtual Community
VEG Very Evil Grin
VGI Very Good Idea

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W Wink
WABOL What A Bunch Of Losers
WAIDW What Am I Doing Wrong?
WAG Wild Ass Guess
WB Welcome Back
WBS Write Back Soon
WDTM What Does That Mean
WEG Wicked Evil Grin
WFM Works For Me
WHYD What Have you Done?
WINDOWS Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
WTFRU Who The Fuck Are You?
W/O Without
WOB Waste Of Bandwith/Brainpower
WOB Without Boyfriend
WOBTAM Waste Of Both Time And Money
WOG Without Girlfriend
WOFTAM Waste Of Flaming Time And Money
WRT With Regard To
WTF What/Who the F-
WTG Way To Go
WTH? What/Who The Hell?
WTHDTM What The Hell Does That Mean?
WUASTC Wake Up And Smell The Coffee
WUF? Where are you From?
WYGIWYPF What You Get Is What You Pay For
WYMM? Will You Marry Me?
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get

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XHNS eXtra Hot'N Spicy

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YA Yet Another
YBS You'll Be Sorry
YG Young Gentleman
YGM You've Got Mail
YGWYPF You Get What You Pay For
YHBW You Had/Have Been Warned
YKYS You Know Your Sh8/Shit
YL Young Lady
YM Young Man
YMMV Your Mileage May Vary.
YOY Why Oh Why
YWSYLS You Win Some You Lose Some

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ZIAO Zoning In And Out

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Emoticons

:-) Smile, happy face, don't take me too seriously
:-D Big smile, laughing
:-( Frown, sad or angry face
;-) Wink (said tongue-in-cheek)
;-> Devilish Wink
:-& Angry
:' Crying
:'-( Crying Sadly
:'-) Crying with Joy
:-------) Viagra smile
:-# Lips are Sealed, Something shouldn't have said
:-& Tongue Tied
:-x Kiss
:-* Kiss
:-{} Blowing a Kiss
:*) Clowning or Drunk
:-@ Screaming
:-\ Undecided
:-| Ambivalent
:~/ Mixed Up
:-> Devilish
:-6 Exhausted, wiped out
:-9 Delicious, yummy
:-$ Sick, ill
:-c Bummed Out
:-I Indifferent
:-O Mouth Open (Surprised, Shocked, "Oh nooo!")
:-p Disgusted (sticking out tongue)
:-~ Drooling


@[_]~~ Mug of Hot Coffee or Tea
\_/ Glass (drink)
\~/ Full Glass
\-o Bored
^ Thumbs Up
^5 High Five
{\o/} Angel
o:-) Angelic
|C| Can of Coke
|P| Can of Pepsi
c[C] cup of coffee
c[T] cup of tea
|-I Asleep
|-O Yawning
<o> <o> Staring
<o>?~~ Wink
>:-( Angry
>^-^< Cats
&&&& Pretzels
**** Popcorn
(%> Pizza
(( )):** Hugs and Kisses
(((((name)))) Hug
(::) Bandaid
(_) Mug (coffee, beer)
(_\_)(_|_)(_/_) Dancing ass off
,l,, The Finger
<:-) Dumb questions
|-( Late night messages
...---... S.O.S.
(O--< A fishy message...

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Assicons (@sscons)

(_!_)   Regular a
(__!__)   Fat a
(!)   Tight a
(_._)   Flat a
(_^_)   Bubble a
(_*_)   Sore a
(_!__)   Lop-sided a
{_!_}   Swishy a
(_o_)   An a that's been around
(_O_)   An a that's been around even more
(_x_)   Kiss my a
(_X_)    Leave my a alone
(_zzz_)   Tired a
(_o^o_)   Wise a
(_E=mc2_)   Smart a
(_13_)   Unlucky a
(_$_)   Money coming out of his a
(_?_)   Dumb a

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