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A wooden key fob made in Finland. A key fob is a generally decorative and at times useful item many people often carry with their keys, on a ring or a chain, for ease of tactile identification, to provide a better grip, or to make a personal statement. Key fob can also specifically refer to modern electronic car keys, or smart keys, which serve ...
Can anyone clarify what "fob" means...is it an acronym? abbreviation? It is actually a word, fob is a adornment that hangs from a chain or ring. --Thax 21:46, 19 February 2006 (UTC) Please add the etymology to the article. Jidanni 04:19, 2 January 2008 (UTC) It is NOT synonymous with the term keychain.
Acronym Finder (AF) is a free, online, searchable dictionary and database of abbreviations (acronyms, initialisms, and others) and their meanings. The entries are classified into categories such as Information Technology, Military/Government, Science, Slang/Pop Culture etc. It also contains a database of the United States and Canadian postal codes.
SNAFU is widely used to stand for the sarcastic expression Situation Normal: All Fucked Up, as a well-known example of military acronym slang. However, the military acronym originally stood for "Status Nominal: All Fucked Up." It is sometimes bowdlerized to all fouled up or similar. [4] It means that the situation is bad, but that this is a ...
A slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing and speech. [1] It also often refers to the language exclusively used by the members of particular in-groups in order to establish group identity, exclude outsiders, or both.
There are several essays on what this means, including Wikipedia:What "Ignore all rules" means, and an encyclopedic article on the topic. IAW An abbreviation for "in accordance with", as in "IAW [[WP:RS]]". IBAN, I-BAN An abbreviation referring to an interaction ban between two or more editors, usually used to reduce or eliminate a conflict. ICBH
A macronym, or nested acronym, is an acronym in which one or more letters stand for acronyms (or abbreviations) themselves. The word "macronym" is a portmanteau of " macro- " and "acronym". Some examples of macronyms are:
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