Acronyms Dictionary

Acronyms

Dictionary

Rossy Haber

A ASAP As Soon As Possible (pronounced: A-­‐sap) An acronym used primarily in texting, online chat, instant messaging, e-­‐mail, blogs, and newsgroup postings, it is also considered a form of online jargon or text message shorthand.

artificial life a.k.a. a-­‐life -­‐or-­‐ alife From the field of artificial intelligence, "artificial life" is the modeling of complex, lifelike behaviors in computer programs. Artificial life forms can supposedly evolve and produce behaviors not contained within the rules set by the programmers.

AOL America Online, Inc., a division of AOL Time Warner Founded in 1985, America Online, based in Dulles, Virginia, has become the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies, and e-­‐commerce services. It operates AOL, with more than 30 million members; CompuServe, with more than 3 million members; several leading Internet brands, including ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger; the Netscape products, including Netscape Navigator; AOL Moviefone; and a bevy of other products. It has built alliances with leading technology companies, expanded overseas, and merged with media giant Time Warner, which operates HBO, Time, Turner Broadcasting, Warner Brothers, and other major entities.

ADL

All Day Long

Astroview

The view of the sky with stars at night.

B banana problem Business slang for a project that does not require a great deal of technical expertise; that is, a big dumb gorilla could handle it. Commonly used in the industry in increments of "one banana" for very easy and "two banana" for easy. For example: "What's taking him so long to get your e-­‐mail set up? It's a two banana problem at most."

bang Slang for an exclamation point (!). "Bang" is used to signify surprise in an online forum. Users type out "bang" to emphasize what they've just said.

BITCH Basically In The Clear Homey

Banana Boat

A dessert such as banana split without splitting.

BTBW

Born To Be Wild

C click here A common phrase on the World Wide Web, used to encourage a user to click on hypertext or a clickable graphic (such as an ad banner) that links to another Web page.

Cookies a.k.a. a cookie -­‐or-­‐ cookie technology A funny name for a noun that describes a small piece of information about you (about your computer, actually). It is a small file that a Web server automatically sends to your PC when you browse certain Web sites. Cookies are stored as text files on your hard drive so servers can access them when you return to Web sites you've visited before.

critical mess A play on the phrase critical mass, this refers to an unstable stage in a software project's life when any single change or bug fix can result in two or more new bugs.

Cranberry face

Someone whose face is excessively red and circled

CD

Count Down

D deja moo The feeling that you've heard this particular bullsh*t before.

deselect If you change your mind after clicking a check box or radio button to select an item, you can deselect the item by clicking the box or button again.

docs a.k.a. html_docs Located in the home directory on a Web server, the docs directory is the folder that contains a Web site's HTML and image files.

DAJLY

Dogs Act Just Like You

DanCinDrain

Dancing in the Rain

E EMA E-­‐Mail Address

emo emotional hardcore (pronounced: ee-­‐moh) Contrary to popular belief, "emo" is not short for "emotional" and it doesn't necessarily imply that someone is sensitive, shy, or introverted, even though the term has morphed and is now used in this way. For example, my friend's dog is overly sensitive so they nicknamed him emo.

eye candy Slang for extra graphics (or images) included on a Web page with the intent of making it look better. It turns out, however, that too much eye candy on a Web site usually makes it look worse. As in, "that site has way too much eye candy going on."

The auditory equivalent is "ear candy."

Elemeno

The way little children pronounce “L, M, N, O” while singing the ABC.

Einstein’s child

Slang used to refer to very bright and intelligent people.

F failure a.k.a. attending the "pink-­‐slip party" "blood loss" "lossage" "lossity" "the big zero" In the industry, failure is when a business becomes unsuccessful, ceases to function, or declares chapter 11. Entrepreneurs do not look at failure as totally negative.

Instead, when they hear your first business failed, they'll say, "Welcome to the club."

Many successful business people will tell you they've gone through dozens of failures before getting it right. So then, failure is not always lack of success, it is when you know something is wrong but you choose to do it anyway. Take petstore.com for example, where did they fail in that, in listening to experts and following a dream?

Unless it is based on poor management or the like, a business failure is better thought of as a life lesson.

facebooking Based on a popular social networking site, the term "facebooking" has emerged as a verb to describe the activity of logging in to Facebook in order to create a profile, share personal information, and meet other members.

face time Employees tend to strive for "face time" with the boss, salesmen work for face time with their customers. Now, with many employees telecommuting face time takes on the meaning of physically meeting co-­‐workers through e-­‐mail, chat or video-­‐ conferencing. "Next week I'll be in the office, so we can get in a little face time."

Fantasound

Word used to refer to an amazing sound made by someone external to the place where it’s heard.

Fairytail

Having such a nice ass that it’s considered to be like a tail of a fairy.

G GAB Getting A Beer

GAS Got A Second?

GBTW Get Back To Work

GOOHN

Get Out Of Here Now

Going orange

Eating so much carrot that the person actually starts getting orange colored.

H H&K Hugs and Kisses Text message shorthand used primarily in online chat, IM, e-­‐mail, blogs, or newsgroup postings.

HBASTD Hitting Bottom And Starting To Dig

Hi 5 HIgh Five

Handibrained

Special, different abilities of thinking.

Hugo Boss

Fabulous men clothing brand and fashion icon.

I I 1-­‐D-­‐R I Wonder An acronym or text message used in online chat, IM, e-­‐mail, blogs, or newsgroup postings

ILU I Love You

IMA I Might Add

Text message shorthand used primarily in online chat, IM, e-­‐mail, blogs, or newsgroup postings

ITM

In The Mood

Illness of the cow

Someone who’s considered crazy as a cow

J JSU Just Shut Up An acronym or text message used in online chat, IM, e-­‐mail, blogs, or newsgroup postings.

JK Just Kidding An acronym or text message used in online chat, IM, e-­‐mail, blogs, or newsgroup postings.

JAM Just A Minute (pronounced as a new word: jam) An acronym used in online chat, IM, e-­‐mail, blogs, or newsgroup postings.

J4DRecord

Just For The Record

JIC

Just In Case

K K OK An acronym or text message used in online chat, IM, e-­‐mail, blogs, or newsgroup postings.

KOK

Knock An acronym or text message used in online chat, IM, e-­‐mail, blogs, or newsgroup postings.

kitty code word for vagina

koala jumping

The act of jumping from one tree to another.

KISS

Kissing Is Simple and Stupid

L L8R Later

L?^ Let's hook up

LH6 Let’s Have Sex

Lava-­‐girl Extremely hot girl with red hair, freckles, and can get anyone to make eruption.

L8@nite Late at night

M Mac The beloved nickname for a Macintosh, "Mac" is actually a brand name and trademark for a line of computers from Apple Inc.

MEGO My Eyes Glaze Over (pronounced: me-­‐go) An acronym used in online chat, IM, e-­‐mail, blogs, or newsgroup postings.

melissa The name of a virus distributed as an e-­‐mail attachment. When opened, it disables numerous safeguards in Microsoft Word (a word processor) and causes Microsoft Outlook (an e-­‐mail program) to send the virus to the first fifty people in each of the user's address books. Melissa wreaked havoc one day in March of 1999, when it forced Microsoft to shut down all of its incoming e-­‐mail servers.

Mr. trash

Nickname for someone who’s too wasted.

MOLL

My Outfit Looks Lazy

N N2M Not To Mention -­‐or-­‐ Not Too Much An acronym or text message used in online chat, IM, e-­‐mail, blogs, or newsgroup postings.

NEWS North, East, West, South Did you realize that the term "news" actually started as an acronym!? It is an acronym for "North, East, West, South" and this implies that news is what happens all around us, whether it is local, national, or international. Interesting!

nine-­‐to-­‐five code Slang for plain, ordinary software with no real innovation. It just gets the job done.

NOSTALGIA No Owl Seems To Attack Leila’s Grandma In Algeria

NMCBH No Money Can Buy Happiness

O OMFG Oh My F***ing God Text message shorthand used in online chat, IM, e-­‐mail, blogs, or newsgroup postings.

on the fly a.k.a. Internet on the go An expression used to describe the way a Web page or an HTML page is both "built" and shown or "served" to a user. Pages built "on the fly" usually contain dynamic content (information that changes frequently), Sometimes as much as each time the page is requested by a user and loaded into a browser.

O Over and Out Text message shorthand used primarily in online chat, IM, e-­‐mail, blogs, or newsgroup postings, it means end of communication.

Ohlala Expression made by men when they are impressed by a woman’s aspect.

OMDB Over My Death Body

P password a.k.a. passcode A combination of letters and other symbols needed to login to a computer system or program. It is a good idea to make your passwords as cryptic as possible to keep unauthorized users out of your personal or business files. It is also a good idea to change your passwords at least every six of months.

phat Pretty Hot And Tempting (pronounced: fat)

PICNIC

Problem In Chair, Not In Computer (pronounced: pick-­‐nick) An acronym used primarily in texting, online chat, instant messaging, e-­‐mail, blogs, and newsgroup postings, it is also considered a form of online jargon or text message shorthand.

PRINiCE Painting rainbows is nice

princilicious a gorgeous prince or princess

Q Q2C Quick To Cum

QT Cutie

QLS

Reply

Qcumber

Cucumber

Quotazing

The act of analyzing a quote to the grade of getting involved on it.

R r are

Red Book Another name for the CD-­‐DA audio CD format introduced by Sony and Philips, the Red Book standard defines the number of tracks on the disc that contain digital audio data and the error correction routines that save sound from minor data loss.

The format allows for a total of 74 minutes of digital sound to be transferred at a rate of 150 kilobytes per second (K/sec).

ROS Run-­‐Of-­‐Site The option for an online advertiser to purchase ad space on any page of a particular Web site, regardless of whether or not the site is part of an ad network.

Rockage

Rock and roll music in a Stone Age scenario.

Rolling in the deep

Phrase used by teenagers when they are very depressed and don’t find any solutions.

S S4L Spam For Life

sec wait a second

SEX Sun Users' Group & elsewhere A technique invented by the blue-­‐green algae hundreds of millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had been terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties are popular among hackers and others (of course, these are no longer limited to exchanges of genetic software). In general, SEX parties are a Good Thing, but unprotected SEX can propagate a virus. See also pubic directory. 2. The rather Freudian mnemonic often used for Sign EXtend, a machine instruction found in the PDP-­‐11 and many other architectures. The RCA 1802 chip used in the early Elf and SuperElf personal computers had a `SEt X register' SEX instruction, but this seems to have had little folkloric impact.

Spoop

The sound of bubbles when they split up.

Sound of heaven

The sound that can be heard when it’s all quiet and you can feel tranquility in the air.

T tag In Web programming languages, it is the code that describes a command or instruction so that a Web browser will be able to interpret and display it. In order to link an image or word on a Web page, you must put specific tags around the image or word in the code. This is known as basic HTML and it's pretty easy. Look up the HTML definition for more info.

T2UT Talk To You Tomorrow

texting a.k.a. texting, text message, person-­‐to-­‐person messaging, p2p messaging, SMS The act of typing and sending a brief, electronic message (less than 160 characters) via a wireless network to another person so that they can view the short message on any number of mobile or handheld devices, such as a Blackberry, a cell phone, a PDA, a handy, or a pager.

TTTKA

Time to totally kick ass

TLK

True Love’s Kiss

U u You

U2 You Too

unzip To decompress and open up a ZIP file using WinZip or another type of file compression program.

UKULM

You Know You Love Me

Unbound

A computer with no limits on its capacity.

V VR Virtual Reality

virtual reality a.k.a. VR A term coined by Jaron Lanier to describe an artificial, computer-­‐generated, simulated environment that actually feels real by presenting you with lifelike images and immersing at least three of your five senses within it. It is created with computer hardware and software, and in order to enter a virtual reality, users need special goggles, earphones, and gloves that feed sensory input to you from a computer.

These devices also track and monitor your actions. Virtual reality systems are expensive and primarily only used in research laboratories, but you might be able to try one out at a [[cybercafe|cybercaf]].

voice mail a.k.a. voicemail, voice-­‐mail, vmail, VMS, voice message, messagebank Voice mail is the modern equivalent of an answering machine, as in "I left you a message on your voice mail."

Virtual lab

Laboratory practices made through the computer and the Internet.

VVVA

Very Very Very Annoying

W W3 short for: World Wide Web The World Wide Web is the universe of network-­‐accessible information viewed through a browser.

w's^ what's up?

WB

Welcome Back -­‐or-­‐ Write Back

won-­‐ton!

Expression used to tell someone there is a Chinese in the room without him noticing that he is being the subject.

Will work for candy

What babies say to convince their parents they are willing to get what they want.

X X It means "times" (as in multiplication) or "times as big as." For example, "We're going to be 3X Amazon.com if we ever get this idea off the ground."

xmas Christmas

X-­‐I-­‐10

Exciting

Xsaint

Croissant

Xuberant

Exuberant

Y Y Why? -­‐or-­‐ Yes

YA Yet Another (pronounced: yah) An acronym used primarily in texting, online chat, instant messaging, e-­‐mail, blogs, and newsgroup postings, it is also considered a form of online jargon or text message shorthand.

Yerk An object-­‐oriented language based on a Forth Kernel with some major modifications. It was originally known as Neon, developed and sold as a product by Kriya Systems from 1985 to 1989. Several people at The University of Chicago have maintained Yerk since its demise as a product. Because of possible trademark conflict they named it Yerk, which is not an acronym for anything, but rather stands for Yerkes Observatory, part of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at U of C.

YMCA

Dance known by almost everyone on Earth.

Yakma

Wayacama Unknown type of fruit.

Z ZZZ Sleeping, Bored, Tired

ZMG or ZOMG Oh My God A variation on OMG, it is a more enthusiastic and sarcastic way of saying OMG. The Z doesn't stand for anything, but rather is added onto the O, making it pronounced as "ZOH MY GOD!! It is online jargon, also known as text message shorthand, used primarily in texting, online chat, instant messaging, email, blogs, and newsgroup postings; these types of abbreviations are also referred to as chat acronyms.

zapping

Considered to be the lowest form of software programming known to mankind, it involves altering the assembly code in hex format after it has been output from a complier or assembler. Typically done when there is a compiler bug, the proper data is not being generated, or the original source code was lost.

Zonedance

A place exclusively used for dancing.

Zzzip

Expression used to interrupt and shut up someone else.