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 Airline And Travel Related Acronyms

2BM/3BM - 2/3 Browser Method
AA - American Airlines or Adverse Action
A/A - (Chase) Adverse Action
AAMOF - As a matter of fact
AAOA - Average age of accounts
AC- Aishes Chayil
AF - Annual fee, Air France
AFAF - Asking For A Friend
AFAIC - As far as I'm concerned
AFAIK - As far as I know
AFAICR - As far as I can remember
AFAICT - As far as I can tell
Aka - Also Known As
ALOL - Actually laughed/laughing out loud
AO - Add On (Amazon)
AOR - App-o-Rama
AP - Amazon Payments
APFR - As Per Forum Rules
AU - Authorized User (Additional Card on a CC account)
AWS - Amazon Web Services
AYLOR - Ask Your Local Orthodox Rabbi
B&M - Brick & Mortar (physical store, not online)
BBB - Better Business Bureau / Buy Buy Baby
BBD - Bed Bath & Beyond
BC - Amex Blue Cash card
BD- Bottle Deposit /BirthDay
BOA - Bank of America
BOFA - Bank of America
BOGO - Buy one get one
BOTOH - But on the other hand
BRG - Best rate guaranteed
BTDT - Been there done that
BTL - Bachelor of Talmudic Law
BTW - By the way
BUMP - Bring Up My Post
CA - Cash Advance
CAPTCHA - Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
CB - Credit bureau, Cash back
CC - Credit Card
CDW - Collision Damage Waiver
CEOA - Cheapest Ever On Amazon
CHFFGM - CHFF's Grand Mehalech
CTEOA - Cheaper Than Ever On Amazon
CL - Credit line
CLI - Credit Line Increase
CMIIW - Correct Me If I'm Wrong
CO - Continental (Airlines)
CP - Companion Pass
CR - Credit Report
CSP - Chase Sapphire Preferred card
CSR - Customer Service Representative
CSR - CHASE Sapphire Reserve
CTLMS - Comments That Leave Me Speechless
CX - Cathay Pacific
CYBYW - Correcting You Because You're Wrong
DACOTYA - Dumb a** comment of the year award
DAOTYA - Dumb a** of the year award
DD – Dansdeals.com
DE – Not Cholov Yisroel
DDF - Dans Deals Forums
DDFB - Dans Deals Facebook (Group)
DDFBW - DDF Be Wary
DDMS - Dans Deals Main Site
DH- Dear Husband
DL - Delta
DMPGS - Doesn't Meet Price Guide Standards (or DavidMal's Price Guide Standard)
DO - Day Out/ Day Off
DP - Data Point
DR - Deal Request
DROC - Don't Rely On Cashier
DROPR - Don't Rely On Phone Reps
DSU - Diamond Suite Upgrade
DTC: Due to COVID
DW- Dear Wife
E's - Experian + Equifax
ECCA - End Chat, Chat Again
EECB - Executive Email Carpet Bomb
EF - Expert Flyer
Eq - Equifax
ETA - Edited To Add
Exp - Experian
FAR - Free After Rebate
FFN - Frequent Flyer Number
FIL - Father-in-Law
FMPE - From My Personal Experience
FOMO - Fear Of Missing Out
FR - (Amex) Financial Review/ Freddy rocks!
FT - flyertalk.com
FTFM - Fixed That For Myself/Me
FTFY - Fixed That For You
FTT - Follow The Thread
FTW - For The Win
FTR - For The Record
FU - CHASE Freedom Unlimited
FWIR- From What I Remember/ Read
FWIU - From What I Understand
FWIW - For What It's Worth
FYI - For your information
GC - Gift Card
GD - General Discussion
GIYF - Google is your friend
HT - Hat Tip
Hn - Henche
HUCA - Hang up & call again
HP- Hard Pull
IB - Ink Bold (Chase credit card), Iberia
ICBW- It Could Be Wrong
IINM - If I'm Not Mistaken
IIUC - if I understand correctly
IIRC - If I recall correctly
IKR - I Know, Right?
IME - In my experience
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
IMO - In my opinion
IMNSHO - In My Not So Humble Opinion
IRROP - Irregular Operation
ISO - In Search Of
IOW - in other words
KSML - Kosher Meal
JS - Just Shmooze
LD- Lightening Deal (Amazon)
LLTG- Long Live the Game
LMAO - Laugh my aspargus off
LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You
LMS - Last Man Standing
LCR - Local Conservative Rabbi
LOIDH - Link Or It Didn't Happen
LOL - Laugh out loud
LOR - Local Orthodox Rabbi
LSAT - Law School Admission Test
MB - Mercedes Benz (Amex Platinum card)
MBM - Multi Browser Method
MO - Money Order; Modern Orthodox; Method of Operating
MIL - Mother In-Law
MIR - Mail-in Rebate
MPM - Marco Polo Method
MPX - Mileage Plus X (United Mobile App)
MS - Manufactured Spend
MVD - My Vanilla Debit
n00b - New user (Newbie)
NPSL - No preset spending limit
NSFW - Not Safe For Work (foul language, etc)
OBO - Or Better Offer
OOS - Out of stock
OP - Original post/er
OT- Off/on topic
OTD - Off the Derech (On the Derech)
OTOH - On the Other Hand
OV- One Vanilla
OW - One way
OWB - Overwater Bungalow
PBMS - Please Be More Specific
PEBKAC - Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair
PIF - Paid In Full
PITA - Pain In The ...
PGFHGS - Pigs Get Fat, Hogs Get Slaughtered
PGGP - Pretty good game plan
PGS - Price Guide Standard
PL - Priceline
PM - Private Message/Price Mistake
PNR - Passenger Name Record
POIDH - Pics or it didn't happen
PP - PayPal
PPD - Points Per Dollar
PPK - PayPal Key
PPR - PayPal reload
PRG - Premier Rewards Gold (AMEX)
PSA - Public service announcement
PUOSU - Put up or shut up
PUTPAC: Pick up the phone and call
PUTPACA: Pick up the phone and call again
RS - Refuah shelema
RTM - Report to moderator
ROFL - Rolling on the floor laughing
ROTB - Rolling On The Belly
SBS - Small business Saturday
SDC - Same day confirmed/change
SEO - Search engine optimization
SIYF - Search is your friend
SM - Secure Message
SMH - Shaking my head, (slap my head, something's missing here)
SO - Significant Other
SP - Sapphire Preferred (Chase CC)
T&C - Terms & Conditions
TALUK - Try and let us know
TARB - Try And Report Back
TGTBT - Too good to be true
TIA - Thanks In Advance
TBH - To Be Honest
TBS - That being said
TFS - Thanks For Sharing
TIL - Today I learned
TLDR - Too long, didn't read
TLS - TLS TopLawSchools.com
TMLT - Tofasta Meruba Lo Tofasta
TMTC - Too many to count
TOFTT - Take One For The Team
TOT - Tuchis Oifen Tish
TR - Trip Report
TRU - Toys R' Us
TU - Transunion
TWTCSIN - The worse they could say is no
TY - Thank you
TYVM - Thank You Very Much
UA - United Airlines
UPS - United Postal Service, Unknown Possibly Something
UR - Ultimate Rewards (Chase)
UTWP - Use The Wiki People!!
VGC - Visa/Vanilla Gift Cards
VOIDH - Video or it didn't happen
VR - Vanilla Reload
YMMV- Your mileage might vary
YSYL- You Snooze You Lose (i.e. the deal is dead)
YQ - fuel surcharges
YW - You're Welcome
WIYF - WIKI Is Your Friend
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
WATBATA - Walk Around the Block and Try Again

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Author Topic: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated  (Read 600965 times)

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #1160 on: December 12, 2016, 10:26:46 AM »
Twas a joke. (JTZ's post, not the RAT)
I know. just thought id answer anyways  ;)
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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #1161 on: December 12, 2016, 10:27:08 AM »
I thought it was R' Aaron Teitelbaum, CM's spiritual advisor

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #1163 on: January 04, 2017, 11:52:55 PM »
are LEOA & CEOA interchangeable?
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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #1164 on: January 05, 2017, 12:07:49 AM »
are LEOA & CEOA interchangeable?
Yes
LEOA=Lowest Ever On Amazon

I don't suggest that, Dan got mad when I added that to the wiki, as you can see if you look for yourself my edit and his edit after me, he pointed out to me there's one in Abbreviated form ; CEOA- Cheapest Ever On Amazon.

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #1165 on: January 12, 2017, 09:20:01 AM »
SSA's

"that Orthodox men and women with SSAs have a contribution to make to the Orthodox community"
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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #1166 on: January 12, 2017, 09:36:37 AM »


SSA's

"that Orthodox men and women with SSAs have a contribution to make to the Orthodox community"
same sex attraction.


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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #1167 on: January 12, 2017, 01:14:23 PM »

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #1168 on: January 12, 2017, 01:19:39 PM »
Don't wait for the perfect moment; take the moment and make it perfect.

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #1169 on: January 12, 2017, 01:22:53 PM »
I might be mistaken
Thanks. Even google had a hard time with that one.

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #1170 on: January 12, 2017, 01:38:11 PM »
Thanks. Even TimT had a hard time with that one.
FTFY

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #1171 on: January 15, 2017, 02:10:51 PM »
TC?

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #1172 on: January 15, 2017, 02:11:03 PM »
Ahhh, DW had the card for two years, got the TC for 2017, downgraded to reg Marriott, should get back the full AF and a yearly night in Marriott/SPG going forward... Onto my card!

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #1173 on: January 15, 2017, 02:12:47 PM »
Ahhh, DW had the card for two years, got the TC for 2017, downgraded to reg Marriott, should get back the full AF and a yearly night in Marriott/SPG going forward... Onto my card!
Huh?
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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #1174 on: January 15, 2017, 02:16:16 PM »
Memories last forever, make them while you can.

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #1175 on: January 15, 2017, 02:17:13 PM »

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #1176 on: January 15, 2017, 02:57:30 PM »
+1 lol
Was trying to quote a post from another thread, but it just copied the text
Huh?

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #1177 on: January 15, 2017, 02:57:47 PM »
+1 lol
Was trying to quote a post from another thread, but it just copied the text
Huh?

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #1178 on: January 15, 2017, 02:58:06 PM »

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #1179 on: January 16, 2017, 11:23:45 PM »
OOT (from FT)
Don't wait for the perfect moment; take the moment and make it perfect.