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  2. List of English abbreviations made by shortening words

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    cab Cabernet Sauvignon cabriolet caff (UK slang) café cal calorie (in combination, especially "lo-cal") Cal or Cali California Calcutta cam camera camouflage camo camouflage Can Canada or Canadian (in combination)

  3. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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  4. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.

  5. List of military slang terms - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. This Is the Real Reason Why 'Pounds' Is Abbreviated to 'lbs'

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  7. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    Notes Works cited References External links 0-9 S.S. Kresge Lunch Counter and Soda Fountain, about 1920 86 Main article: 86 1. Soda-counter term meaning an item was no longer available 2. "Eighty-six" means to discard, eliminate, or deny service A abe's cabe 1. Five dollar bill 2. See fin, a fiver, half a sawbuck absent treatment Engaging in dance with a cautious partner ab-so-lute-ly ...

  8. TL;DR - Wikipedia

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    In 2009, the term appeared in Mo' Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined, a publication based on online crowdsourced slang database Urban Dictionary. [5] Also in 2009, it was listed as a slang acronym in David Pogue's tweet anthology World According to Twitter. [6] The term was added to the Oxford Dictionaries Online in 2013. [1]

  9. Automotive acronyms and abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The following items are commonly used automotive acronyms and abbreviations: [1] [2] [3 ... CTS: Cruising ...