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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


Author Topic: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated  (Read 538671 times)

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #440 on: May 27, 2014, 12:12:57 PM »
What the face?   ;D
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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #441 on: May 27, 2014, 12:16:03 PM »

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #442 on: May 27, 2014, 12:17:52 PM »
Nicer substitute out there?
I worded my question wrong.  I guess I can go for 'What the heck' as a cleanish explanation of WTH, but I meant to ask if there is a different acronym-for-popular-idiom out there that we can use in place of WTH.

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #443 on: May 27, 2014, 12:20:19 PM »
I worded my question wrong.  I guess I can go for 'What the heck' as a cleanish explanation of WTH, but I meant to ask if there is a different acronym-for-popular-idiom out there that we can use in place of WTH.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #444 on: May 27, 2014, 12:33:31 PM »
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

I actually like WTF as
  Why the face
That is great for the literal 'Why the face' for not understanding the reason for an emoticon.

I would not use something like WTH since people could read my words not as 'what the heck".
w/e...not important.  Thanks for the responses (I'm working on updating this wiki.)

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #445 on: May 27, 2014, 12:33:58 PM »
What On Earth? (WOE)
Workflowy. You won't know what you're missing until you try it.

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #446 on: May 27, 2014, 12:34:41 PM »

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #447 on: May 27, 2014, 12:41:54 PM »
and don't forget Oh My Heavens!
Workflowy. You won't know what you're missing until you try it.

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #448 on: May 27, 2014, 12:45:33 PM »
and don't forget Oh My Heavens!
Be happy to add it once people start using OMH in their posts!

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #449 on: May 27, 2014, 01:56:13 PM »
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
Victor Echo Robert Yankee
Nancy India Charlie Echo!

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #450 on: May 27, 2014, 04:39:18 PM »
Nicer substitute out there?

 What the challa ?
כפרות על כפרה

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #451 on: May 27, 2014, 04:55:15 PM »
Victor Echo Romeo Yankee
November India Charlie Echo!
ftfy :P

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #452 on: May 27, 2014, 05:14:16 PM »

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #453 on: May 27, 2014, 08:15:48 PM »
SMH- slap my head. Used to express frustration when dealing with an idiot
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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #454 on: May 28, 2014, 12:02:28 PM »
SMH- slap my head. Used to express frustration when dealing with an idiot
Or shaking my head

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #455 on: May 28, 2014, 12:07:18 PM »
or "something's missing here"
Workflowy. You won't know what you're missing until you try it.

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #456 on: May 28, 2014, 12:20:33 PM »
You guys are good!  Does SMH really exist or did all of you just invent something?

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #457 on: May 28, 2014, 01:01:52 PM »
You guys are good!  Does SMH really exist or did all of you just invent something?
mine's a new invention
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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #458 on: May 28, 2014, 01:45:39 PM »
You guys are good!  Does SMH really exist or did all of you just invent something?
It really does
HT Google

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Re: Acronyms Thread for the Uninitiated
« Reply #459 on: May 29, 2014, 10:42:07 AM »
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