Ever wonder “what is an acronym” or “what does an acronym mean”? AITA. BDE. IG. FW. They’re not just letters. They’re acronyms that are all over the Internet. Acronyms can be words formed by the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word. Think NASA or SCUBA or FOMO. Then again, acronyms can be a set of initials representing a name, organization, or the like, with each letter pronounced separately. Think BDE or BBC. So what do all those acronyms mean? We’ve got acronym definitions to help make sense of all those jumbled up strings of letters!
AITA stands for Am I the Asshole? On…
COVID-19 is a highly infectious respiratory disease caused…
BDE is an acronym. We all pretty much…
Short for fear of missing out, FOMO is…
Sure, DW can stand for everything from devil…
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Often used by people who are sharing their…
In email, FW typically refers to forwarding a message. In…
CTE stands for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative…
Frequently found in chat rooms of massively multiplayer…
CBH is an acronym for child-bearing hips, a reference…
Slide into...this definition. DM stands for direct message,…
Karen is a mocking slang term for an…
Simp is a slang insult for men who…
A variation on rest in peace, rest in…
Cancel culture refers to the popular practice of withdrawing…