acronym

Abbreviated Coded Rendition of Name Yielding Meaning.

A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. is an acronym.

by Alucrix September 30, 2005

Acronym

An acronym is an initial abbreviation that can be pronounced as a word, such as NASA or WASP. This term is also used to refer to a series of initials pronounced individually, such as FBI or TGIF, but the technical term is initialism.

Acronyms #NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organization

#RADAR = Radio Detecting And Ranging

#SCUBA - Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

#WASP - White Anglo Saxon Protestant

by Paisleycool May 1, 2017

acronymrod

Those who profusely string together acronyms or abbreviations as part of normal speech.
e.g. OMG! ATM IDK. LOL! G2G.

Wow, I don't think that acronymrod can form sentences with real words anymore.

by turk182.5 January 5, 2010

Acronymphomaniac

Someone who goes crazy and gives everything an acronym.

One who over uses acronyms when using the actual words is no extra effort.

"OMG that guy makes up acronyms all day long- I have no idea what he's saying anymore. He's a fricking Acronymphomaniac."

by Urban mother August 24, 2016

Acronymph

A really hot girl who speaks and or writes largely using acronyms.

And then she said "omg, brb I've got to perform CPR..." and I realized she was more than just an average acronymph.

by Brewton September 29, 2014

recursive acronym

An acronym whose meaning contains the original acronym. For example, the programming language PHP stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor", where one of the words the acronym shortens is the acronym itself.

- Dude, I just thought of a great acronym: FIAW! It stands for "FIAW Is A Word"!
- That's a recursive acronym, you dummy.

by Geo1088 June 17, 2015

acronymize

vt; vi To reduce a perfectly acceptable title or phrase into an acronym. . Generally thought to be best avoided in most cases, certainly those not in extensive use, or those whose original phrasing was selected for it's poetic or prosaic beauty or clarity. Especially egregious are acronyms that have been "Reverse Acronymized", or cooked up from acronyms that happen to be words, but whose constituent words are contrived at best.

e.g "Office of Academic Freedom" become OAF
"Compound Acronymizing" is practiced by techie geeks, e.g. JXML

by laramie2 June 3, 2005