A

a/s/l Age/Sex/Location - (used to ask a chatter their personal information)

AAMOF As A Matter Of Fact

AAYF As always, your friend

ADN Any Day Now

ADR Address

AFAIC As Far As I Can...

AFAIC As Far As I'm Concerned

AFAIK As far as I know

AFK Away from keyboard

AFN that's All For Now

AISI As I See It

AKA Also Known As

AML All My Love

ANFSCD And Now For Something Completely Different

ASAP As Soon As Possible

ASL Age, sex, location?

ATM At The Moment

AV Avatar - Graphical representaion of a person chatting.

AWA As well as

AWOL Absent Without Leave

B/C Because

B4 Before

B4N Bye for now

BAC Back at computer

BAK Back At Keyboard

BBFN Bye Bye For Now

BBIAB Be back in a bit

BBL Be Back Later

BBS Be Back Soon

BBSL Be Back Soon or Later

BC Be cool

BCNU Be Seeing You

BF Boyfriend

BFN Bye For Now

BIL Brother in law

BKA Better Known As

BOT Back on topic

BR Best Regards

BRB Be Right Back

BRH Be Right Here

BRT Be Right There

BTDT Been there, done that

BTW By The Way

BYKT But You Knew That

BYTM Better you than me

C

CMIIW Correct Me If I'm Wrong

CU See You

CUL Catch you later

CUL8R See You Later

CUOL See You On Line

CUS See you soon

CWOT Complete waste of time

CYA See ya

DIS Did I Say

DIY Do it yourself

DL -or d/l Download... or downloading.

DOD We could tell you but then we'd have to kil you

DUCT Did You See That?

DWD Dude

EAK Eating at keyboard

EG Evil Grin

EL Evil Laugh

EOD End of discussion

EOL End Of Lecture

EOR End of rant

EOT End Of Thread (meaning end of discussion)

F Female

F2F Face To Face

FAQ Frequently Asked Question

FAWC For Anyone Who Cares

FCOL For crying out loud

FIL Father in law

FISH First In Still Here (someone who is on line TOO much)

FITB Fill In The Blank

FNB Football and beer

FOAF Friend Of A Friend

FOCL Falling off the chair laughing

FOFL Falling on the floor laughing

FTASB Faster Than A Speeding Bullet

FTF Face To Face

FTL Faster Than Light

FUBAR Fouled Up Beyond All Repair / Recognition

FUD Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

FWIW For What It's Worth

FYI For Your Information

G2G Gotta go

GA Go Ahead

GA Good afternoon

GAL Get A Life

GALGAL Give A Little Get A Little

GAS Greetings and salutations

GBH Great Big Hug

GBU God Bless You

GE Good evening

gest Gesture - a combination text / audio / video file played in VP Chat rooms

GF Girlfriend

GFN Gone for now

GG Good game

GGN Gotta Go Now

GJ Good job

GL Good luck

GM Good morning / Good move/match

GMTA Great Minds Think Alike

GN Good night

GR Gotta Run

GR8 Great

GTRM Going To Read Mail (leaving chat room to check email)

H&K Hugs and Kisses

HAGD Have a good day

HCIT How cool is that

HF Have fun

HIH Hope It Helps

HOAS Hold on a second

HTH Hope This Helps

IANAL I'm Am Not A Lawyer (expect an uninformed opinion)

IAC In Any Case

IAE In Any Event

IAG It's all good

IAGW In a good way

IAT I Am Tired

IC I See

ICBW I Could Be Wrong

ICL In Christian Love

IDGI I don't get it

IGTP I Get The Point

IHNO I Have No Opinion

IIR If I Recall

IIRC If I remember correctly

IIRC If I Recall Correctly

IK I know

IKWUM I know what you mean

ILU or ILY I Love You

IM Instant Message

IMAO In my arrogant opinion

IMCO In My Considered Opinion

IMHO In My Humble Opinion

IMNSHO In my not so humble opinion

IMO In My Opinion

INPO In No Particular Order

IOH I'm Out of Here

IOW In Other Words

IRL In Real Life

IRSTBO It really sucks the big one

IS I'm sorry

ISWYM I see what you mean

IYKWIM If You Know What I Mean

IYKWIMAITYD If You Know What I Mean And I Think You Do

J/K Just kidding

J/P Just playing

JIC Just In Case

JM2C Just My 2 Cents

JMHO Just my humble opinion

JT Just Teasing

JTLYK Just to let you know

K OK

KIR Keepin' it real

KIT Keep in touch

KOTC Kiss On The Cheeck

KOTFL Kiss On The Lips

KWIM Know what I mean?

L8R Later

LMAO Laughing my ass off

LMK Let me know

LOL Laughing Out Loud / Lots Of Laughter

LOLA Laugh Out Loud Again

LTNS Long time no see

LTR Long term relationship

LWR Launch When Ready

LYK Let you know

LYLAS Love You Like a Sister

M Male

MGB May God Bless

MHOTY My Hat's Off To You

MIL Mother in law

MOTAS Member Of The Appropriate Sex

MOTOS Member Of The Opposite Sex

MOTSS Member Of The Same Sex

MSG Message

MTBF Mean Time Between Failure

MTFBWY May The Force Be With You

mug Person chatting in VP rooms using their browser (IE, Netscape)... instead of the download client program.

MYOB Mind your own business

N In

N/A Not Acceptable

N/C Not cool

N1 Nice One

N2M Not too much

NE1 Anyone

NFW No Feasible Way

NM Nevermind, Not much

NMH Not much here

NMJC Nothing much, just chillin'

NNITO Not necessarily in that order

NO1 No one

NOTTOMH Not off the top of my head

NOYB None of your business

NP No Problem

NRN No Reply Necessary

NTK Nice To Know

OB Obligatory

OBJOKE Obligatory Joke

OIC Oh, I See

OJ or OK Only Joking or Only Kidding

OMG Oh my gosh

ONNA Oh NO, Not Again

OOC Out of character

OOI Out Of Interest

OS Operating System

OT Off topic / Other topic

OTMH Off the Top of My Head ...

OTOH On The Other Hand

OTW On The Way (used when someone is sending a file)

OUSU Oh, You Shut Up

PANS Pretty Awsome New Stuff (often refering to computer technology)

PCMCIA People Can't Master Computer Industry Acronyms (slang)

PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Cards International Association

PD Public Domain

PDA Public Display of Affection

PEBCAK Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard

PITA Pain In The Ass

PLS / PLZ Please

PM Personal Message

PMJI Pardon My Jumping In

POTS Plain Old Telephone Service

POV Point Of view

PPL People

PS Post Script

PTL Praise The Lord

QL Quit Laughing!

QS Quit Scrolling

QT Cutie

RFC Request for comment

RFD Request For Discussion

RFI Request For Information

ROF Rolling On the Floor

ROFL Rolling On Floor, Laughing

ROFL Rolling On the Floor Laughing

ROFLMAO Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Arse Off

ROFLOL Rolling On Floor Laughing Out Loud

ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing

ROTFLABIC Rolling On The Floor Laughing And Biting Into Carpet

ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor, Laughing My Ass Off

ROTFLOL Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud

RSN Real Soon Now

RTFAQ Read The FAQ

RTFM Read The Flippin Manual (response to beginner question on net, chat, newsgroups, etc.)

S2R Send to receive

SCNR Sorry, could not resist

SED Said Enough Darling

SEG Shit Eating Grin

SF Science Fiction

SFETE Smiling From Ear To Ear

SIL Sister in law

SITD Still In The Dark

SMAIM Send Me An Instant Message

SNAFU Situation Normal, All Fouled Up

SNAILMAIL Postal Mail Service

SO Significant Other(e.g., spouse, boy/girlfriend)

SOHF Sense Of Humor Failure

SOL Shit Out Of Luck

SOTA State Of The Art (latest technology)

SPAM Stupid Persons Advertisement

SSEWBA Someday Soon, Everything Will Be Acronyms

SU Shut Up

SWAK Sealed with a kiss

SWALK Sealed With A Loving Kiss

SY Sincerely Yours

SYL See You Later

SYSOP System Operator

TAFN That's All For Now

TAS Taking a Shower

TCO Taken care of

TFDS That's For Darn Sure

TFH Thread From Hell (a topic or discussion that won't stop - esp. newsgrps)

TGIF Thank Goodness It's Friday

THANX Thanks

THX Thanks

TIA Thanks in advance

TIC Tongue In Cheek

TMA Take my advice

TMI Too much information

TNC Tongue In Cheek

TNT Til Next Time

TNX Thanks

TOH The other half

TPTB The Powers That Be

TTFN Ta-Ta For Now

TTYL Talk To You Later

TWIMC To Whom It May Concern

TY Thank You

TYVM Thank you very much

U You

U2 You too

UR Your
V

VBG Very big grin

VBS Very Big Smile

VEG Very Evil Grin

VSF Very Sad Face

W/ With

W/B Write Back

W/O Without

W8 Wait

W8AM Wait a minute

WAD Without a Doubt

WB Welcome back OR Write back

WBS Write Back Soon

WC Welcome... as in You are Welcome

WE Whatever

WEU What's Eating You?

WFM Works For Me

WISP Winning Is So Pleasureable

WNDITWB We never did it this way before

WNOHGB Where No One Has Gone Before

WRT With Regard To

WRT With Respect To

WT Without Thinking

WT? What The ...? or Who the ...?

WTG Way to go!

WTGP? Want To Go Private? (move to a private chat room)

WTH What The Heck

WTTM Without Thinking To Much

WYSIWYG What you See Is What You Get

WYWH Wish You Were Here

XM Excuse Me

XOXOXO Hugs and kisses

Y Why?

YMMV Your Mileage May Vary

YW You're welcome

YWIA You're Welcome In Advance

ZZZ Sleeping, Bored, Tired

Other
10X Thanks

2U2 To you too

4EVR Forever

4GM Forgive me

<G> Grinning

<J> Joking

<L> Laughing

<S> Smiling

<Y> Yawning

>U! Screw you!

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