m

The bank reported a profit of $50m this year.


p

Meet me at 4:30pm.

She wrote her homework in her notebook: "read p 60 – 80".

This quote is from Moby Dick by Herman Melville (p119).


it

Information Technology, i.e. the use of computers.


A/C

AC is a short version of "air conditioning" (cooling).

He turned on the AC to help cool the room.

AC is also a short version of alternating current.


gal

Gal is an abbreviation for gallon, which is a unit of measurement for volume.


RAM

RAM is the acronym for random access memory.


AC

AC is a short version of "alternating current" (a kind of electricity).

The lamp uses AC.


Mr.

Mr. is a shortened form of mister. You use Mr. before a man's name, usually the last name or the full name.

Mr. Brakel, the doctor will see you now.

This is Mr. Terry McGinty.

You use Mr. before a man's title for certain titles, such as justice, mayor, president, etc.

Yes, we can do that Mr. Mayor.


Mr

Mr is a shortened form of mister. You use Mr before a man's name, usually the last name or the full name.

Mr Brakel, the doctor will see you now.

This is Mr Terry McGinty.

You use Mr before a man's title for certain titles, such as justice, mayor, president, etc.

Yes, we can do that Mr Mayor.


Mrs

Mrs is a shortened form of mistress. You use Mrs before a married woman's name, usually the last name or the full name.

Mrs Brakel, the doctor will see you now.

This is Mrs June Hagerty.

You call a woman Mrs when you don't know her name.

Excuse me, Mrs, I think you dropped this.


wed

Short for Wednesday, used only in writing.

Wed, January 13, at 5:00 pm


LMAO

/ɛlˌɛmˌeɪˈoʊ/

A short way to say "laughing my ass (arse) off" when you are talking on the internet.


FYI

A short way of saying "for your information".

We've updated our phone system, FYI.

FYI, I'm going to be out of the office next week.


TTYL

A shorter way of saying "talk to you later", usually used in texting or chatting over the Internet.


RP

A shortening of "Received Pronunciation".

A shortening of "roleplay" (both verb and noun)


RP

A shortening of Rhineland-Palatinate, a federal state of Germany.


WTF

A short way of saying "what the fuck", "where the fuck", "why the fuck", "when the fuck" or "who the fuck".

You weren't at the party like you said you would be--WTF?.


LOL

A short way to say "laugh out loud", "laughing out loud", or "lots of laughs" when you are talking on the internet.

Lol. You just got roasted by the reply above you.

A short way to write "Loyal Orange Lodge", a prefix that is given to all branches of the Loyal Orange Order.

LOL 1 is Portadown branch.


OMG

Object Management Group (who define CORBA).


ROFLMAO

A short way to say "rolling on the floor laughing my ass off"; it is a combination of ROFL ("rolling on the floor laughing") and LMAO ("laughing my ass off").


LA

Louisiana, a state of the United States of America.

I live in Baton Rouge, LA.

Lao People's Democratic Republic, a member state of the United Nations.


LA

Los Angeles, a city in the state of California in the United States.

We went to LA for the summer.

Lead arsenate, a pesticide introduced in the United States in 1892, mostly replaced by DDT in the late 1940s, and banned in 1988.


BS

A short, more polite way of saying "bullshit" or "bollocks".

That page should be deleted, it's nothing but BS.

Bahamas, a member state of the United Nations.

Bridgestone, a company that makes tires.


BS

Short for Bachelor of Science, a four year college or university degree.

I got my BS in psychology.


BOB

A short way of saying "battery-operated boyfriend"; slang for a vibrator.

A short way of saying "back-of-the-book"; refers to stamps in a catalog that are not used on mail and are displayed near the end of a catalog.

A short way of saying "bottom of basket", often used as a reminder to empty shopping carts.


DoS

"denial of service", a way of attacking a computer (hacking) in a network.


DOS

Any computer operating system that is stored on a disk and read into memory.

They began developing DOS's in the 1970's.

A group of operating systems that include PC-DOS, Microsoft DOS (MS-DOS), and others that look and work the same way.

Windows replaced DOS on most computers in the 1990s.

DR-DOS is real DOS with complete open-source code.


FTL

FTL is a short way of saying Faster Than Light (travel), the word "travel" is usually not needed to understand.

Though sci-fi uses it a lot, today's physics considers FTL impossible.


IPA

International Phonetic Alphabet, one of the writing systems used to transcribe every sound that exists in any known human language.


i.e.

This is a Latin abbreviation for id est (literally "that is"), and is used to explain something by saying it in a different way : in other words, which means are expressions having roughly the same meaning.

They are just liars, i.e. they never tell the truth.


Ex

Exodus, the second book of the Torah and the Christian Bible.


ESL

ESL is a short way of saying "English as a second language". This actually means English as a language that is not native. Usually this names a class to teach English.

I was sent to teach ESL students at work.


Dr.

Short for doctor. Used as a title before a doctor's name.

I went to see Dr. Smith for some medicine.

Dr. Schwarz has a Ph.D.


km

It is a about 100 km from here.

We were driving about 50 km/hour.


M.D.

A short way of saying medical doctor, the degree you must have to give medicine.


Ph.D.

A short way of saying doctor of philosophy, the highest degree you can get at a university.

The laboratory Erika worked at wanted her to work on their most important projects, but she did not have enough education, so they paid for her to get a Ph.D. in .


IV

Intravenous therapy; putting medicine or special food into the blood with a tube.


BC

A short way of saying Before Christ; before the Common Era (CE). Originally said to before the birth of Jesus, thus before AD.

A short way of saying British Columbia, a province of Canada.

A short way of saying Baja California, a state of Mexico.


sin

A SIN is a social insurance number, an identification number used by the government of Canada.

Sin is short for sine, a trigonometric function.

Cos75° is equal to sin15°.


ROFL

A short way to say "Rolling On the Floor, laughing" which is used to indicate great amusement at something.


gotcha

You thought you'd get away, but I gotcha!

You can say gotcha to show you know what someone means.


wikt

Wikt is the interwiki link to Wiktionary.


AKA

The royal ships of the United Kingdom are on His/Her Majesty's Service, AKA HMS.


STFU

STFU is an acronym for Shut the fuck up. It is used to tell somebody to stop writing about something on the Internet.


ISP

ISP is short for internet service provider.


USMC

USMC stands for the United States Marine Corps.


LMFAO

A short way of saying "laughing my fucking ass off" when you are talking on the internet.


IRC

I use the website IRC client.


bn

The country's GDP was $850bn.


NASA

NASA is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It is an American agency that explores and researches space.


EFL

EFL stands for "English as a foreign language".


lb

One lb refers to one pound (a unit of weight).


EBITDA

EBITDA stands for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, usually represents revenue before taxes and depreciation are considered.


IDK

David: Do you know who was the vice-captain on the Titanic?

Paul: Sorry, IDK.


NASCAR

NASCAR is the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. It is an American organization that organizes car races.

NASCAR runs 1500 car races each year at more than 100 tracks.


TBD

A shortening of to be determined or to be decided. Used to indicate something that is planned to happen.


AD

AD is short for the Latin words anno Domini, which means in the year of our Lord. You use AD to refer to a date after the year in which Jesus Christ is believed to have been born.

The Romans started building the Colosseum in 70 AD.


LGBT

An acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, especially as a united community, commonly used from around 1990, but it can refer to a community of people who are not heterosexual or cisgender.


DC

I'm going to DC.

DC is a short version of "Washington, D.C".

Our capital DC is nearby.

DC is a short version of "direct current".

The lamp uses DC.


Mrs.

Mrs is a shortened form of mistress. You use Mrs before a married woman's name, usually the last name or the full name.

Mrs. Brakel, the doctor will see you now.

This is Mrs. June Hagerty.


The NA population was wiped out.


ph

ph is a photometric unit of illuminance, or luminous flux through an area, the symbol is an abbreviation for phot.


IQ

Abbreviation for intelligence quotient, a measure of the amount of intelligence a person has.


T-rex

T-rex is a short version of "Tyrannosaurus rex" (a kind of dinosaur).


cm

I am 150 cm tall.


labs

The plural form of lab; more than one (kind of) lab.


yd

The race was only 110 yd.


ch

I have read up to ch 5.


hq

Meet me back at team hq tomorrow.


GP

A GP is a doctor who treats minor conditions in a surgery.

I went to the GP because I had a sore throat.


CEO

CEO is a short way of saying "chief executive officer".

The CEO runs the company.


MVP

MVP is short for saying "most valuable player".

He was named the MVP of the team.


fl oz

fl oz is an abbreviation for fluid ounce.


px

"px" is an abbreviation for pixels, usually used to show that a widget (such as an image) on the computer is a number of pixels long.

We need an image that is 400px long to place into this program.


CPI

CPI is abbreviation for consumer price index

CPI is abbreviation for Corruption Perceptions index.


sniper

Sniper is a common abbreviation of sniper rifle.


i18n is the abbreviation of internationalization/internationalisation.


TBA

A shortening of to be announced. Used to indicate something that is will be announced at a later time.


TBC

A shortening of to be confirmed. Used to indicate something that is will be confirmed at a later time.


n/a is an abbreviation of not applicable.

n/a is an abbreviation of not available.


yds

The race was only 110 yds.


ft

I am 6 ft tall.


ms

The abbreviation ms is short for manuscript.

The abbreviation ms is short for millisecond.


PSA

PSA is an initialism of public service announcement.


TLDR

TLDR is an initialism of too long; didn't read. People use it to say that some block of text or other message is too long and that they don't want to read all of it.


QoL

QoL is an initialism of quality of life.


qol

qol is an initialism of quality of life.


META

META is an initialism of most effective tactic available.


meta

meta is an initialism of most effective tactic available.


tldr

tldr is an initialism of too long; didn't read. People use it to say that some block of text or other message is too long and that they don't want to read all of it.


TL;DR

TL;DR is an initialism of too long; didn't read. People use it to say that some block of text or other message is too long and that they don't want to read all of it.


tl;dr

tl;dr is an initialism of too long; didn't read. People use it to say that some block of text or other message is too long and that they don't want to read all of it.


WWJD

WWJD is an initialism of "what would Jesus do?". This is a question that Christians will sometimes ask themselves (or other people) as a way of deciding what the right thing to do is in a specific situation.


ROM

ROM is the acronym for read-only memory.


mph

mph is an initialism of mile(s) per hour.


LOD

LOD is an initialism of level of detail.


RPM

One RPM is one revolution per minute, the speed of spin.


Ms.

Ms is a shortened form of mistress. You use Ms before a woman's name, regardless of her marital status, usually the last name or the full name.

Ms. Brakel, the doctor will see you now.

This is Ms. June Hagerty.


IDEK

IDEK is an initialism of I don't even know.


UFO

UFO is an abbreviation for unidentified flying object, any object flying in the sky which cannot be identified by the person who sees it.


IIRC

A short way of saying if I recall/remember correctly.

IIRC, his name is Damian.


1,000th is an abbreviation of thousandth.