Chat Glossary
Not Sure what your kids are saying? These are the most commonly used ‘chat’ terms
used during Instant Messenger Conversations.
To navigate please click on the letter of the alphabet to jump to that section.
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A-OLs Administrators On-Line. Administrators who police on-line services.
AAMOF As A Matter Of Fact
ABT About
ADN Any Day Now
AFAIC As Far As I'm Concerned.
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AFAIRAs Far As I Remember
AFJ April Fool’s Joke
AFK Away From the Keyboard
AISI As I See It.
ALOL Actual laugh out loud
ANFAWFOS And Now For A Word From Our Sponsor.
ANFSCD And Now For Something Completely Different …
ANX Thanks
AOAS All of a sudden
AS Another Subject.
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ASL Age, sex.location
ATM At the moment
ATSL Along The Same Line.
ATW At the weekend
AWC After While, Crocodile
AWGTHTGTATA Are We Going To Have To Go Through All This Again?.
AWGTHTGTWTA? Are We Going To Have To Go Through With This Again?
AYOR At Your Own Risk.
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B4N Bye For Now
BAIBAI Bye Bye
BAK Back At Keyboard
BBB Bye Bye Baby
BBFN Bye Bye For Now
BBIAB Be Back In A Bit.
BBIAF Be Back In A Few (minutes)
BBL Be Back Later
BBR Burnt Beyond Repair.
BBS Be Back soon
B/C Because
BCNU Be seein’you
BEG Big Evil Grin.
BF Boy Friend.
BFF Best Friends Forever
BFFAE Best friends forever and ever
BFN Bye For Now.
BKA Best known as
BL Buddy List
BION Believe it or not.
BOT Back On Topic.
BOUT About
BRB Be Right Back
BRS Big Red Switch.
BTA But Then Again
BTAIM Be That As It May.
BTHOM Beats The Hell Outta Me.
BTOBD Be There Or Be Dead.
BTW By The Way
BWL Bursting With Laughter.
BWQ Buzz Word Quotient.
BYCA Before your came along
BYE? "Are you ready to say goodbye?"
BYKT But You Knew That
BYOB Bring Your Own Bottle
BYOM Bring Your Own Mac
BZ Busy
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C&G Chuckle and Grin.
CADET Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try.
CID Crying In Disgrace.
CONV Conversation
CM Call Me
CMIIW Correct Me If I’m Wrong
CMM Changed my mind
CR Chat room
CSG Chuckle, Snicker, Grin.
CTP Cutie Pie
CU See You
CU2 See You, Too.
CUL See you later
CUL8R See You Later
CULA See You Later, Alligator
CUIAL See you in another life
CUTTL Crawling under table laughing
CWYL Chat With You Later.
CYA See You or Cover Your Ass.
CYAL8R See You All Later
CYL See you later
CYM Change your mind
CUZ Because
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DAT That
DIFF Different
DIIK Damned If I Know.
DIKU? Do I Know You?
DINT Didn’t
DIY Do It Yourself
DIZ This
DK Don’t Know
DLTBBB Don't Let The Bed Bugs Bite.
DTRT Do The Right Thing
DUNNO Don’t know
DUZ Does
DUZNT Doesn’t
DWIMC Do What I Mean, Correctly.
DWIMNWIS Do What I Mean, Not What I Say
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ENUFF Enough
ER1 Everyone
ESAD Eat Sh** And Die
EVERY1 Everyone
EVRY Every
EZ Easy
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FANKS Thanks
FC Fingers Crossed
FCFS First Come, First Served
FISH First In, Still Here.
FITB Fill In The Blank
FOAD F*** off and die
FOAF Friend Of A Friend
FOMC Fell off my chair
FOMCLOL Fell off my chair laughing out loud
FS For Sale
FTASB Faster Than A Speeding Bullet.
FTF Face to Face.
FTL Faster Than Light.
FU Follow up or fouled Up
FUBAR Fouled Up Beyond All Repair
FUBBFouled Up Beyond Belief.
FUD Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
FURTB Full Up Ready To Burst - describing hard drive.
FWIW For What It's Worth
FX Effects
FYA For Your Amusement
FYEO For your eyes only
FYI For Your Information
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G2G Got to Go
G2GP Got to go pee
GA Go Ahead
GAL Get A Life
GB God Bless
GD&R Grinning, Ducking and Running
GD&RF Grinning, Ducking, and Running Fast.
GD&WVVFGrinning, Ducking, and Walking Very, Very Fast
GDW Grin, Duck and Weave.
GF Girl Friend.
GFAK Go fly a kite
GFN Gone For Now.
GFR Grim File Reaper.
GG Good Game
GIAUG Give it all you’ve got
GIAYG Give it all you’ve got
GIMMEGive me
GIWIST Gee, I Wish I'd Said That
GLGH Good Luck and Good Hunting.
GJ Great or Good job
GJP Great or Good job partner
GL Good Luck
GM Good Morning
GMTA Great Minds Think Alike
GN Good Night
GO2 Go to
GOIN Going
GONNA Going to
GOTCHA Got you
GOSTAGot you
GOWI Get On With It
GR8 Great
GTAW Go take a walk
GTSY Great To See You.
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HAFTA Have to
H&K Hugs and Kisses.
HAK Hugs And Kisses
HAP Happy
HB Hurry Back
HF Have Fun
HHIS Hanging Head In Shame.
HHO 1/2 K Ha, Ha, Only Half Kidding.
HHOJ Ha Ha Only Joking
HHOK Ha Ha Only Kidding
HHOS Ha Ha Only Serious
HHTYAY Happy Holidays to You and Yours
HIRT Hold it right there
HMWRK Homework
H/O Hold or Hang on
HOS Husband over shoulder
HOYEW Hanging On Your Every Word
HSIKHow Should I Know
HTGELB Have to go eat lunch, bye!
HTH Hope That Helps!
HUD How are you doing?
HW Homework
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IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer (but ) a disclaimer which is usually followed by a legal opinion
IAW In Accordance With
IBTD I Beg To Differ
IBYP I beg your pardon
IC I See
ICRO I’m coming right over
ID I’d
IDK I don’t know
IGTG I got to go
IIABDFI If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It.
IIRC If I Remember Correctly
IIWM If It Were Me . . . (or) If It Were Mine . . . .
IJWTK I Just Want To Know
IJWTS I Just Want To Say
IKWUM I Know What You Mean
IM Instant Messenger
IMA I Might Add
IMAO In My Arrogant Opinion
IMCO In My Considered Opinion
IME In My Experience
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
IMPOV In My Point Of View
INO I know
INPO In No Particular Order
IOWIn Other Words
IRL In Real Life
ISS I’m So Sure
ISSYGTI I’m So Sure You Get The Idea!
ISWIM If (you) See What I Mean
ITFA In The Final Analysis.
ITSFWI If The Shoe Fits, Wear It
ITZ It’s or its
IWALU I Will Always Love You.
IWBNI It Would Be Nice If
IYFEG Insert Your Favorite Ethnic Group (for ethnic jokes)
IYSS If you say so
IYSWIM If You See What I Mean
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J2LUN Just to let you know
J2LYN Just to let you know
J2LUK Just to let you know
JAM Just A Minute
JAS Just A Second
JC Just chillin’
JIC Just In Case
JJ Just joking
J/K Just joking
JK Just kidding
JLT Just like that
JM Just messing
JMO Just My Opinion
JSNM Just Stark Naked Magic
JTLYK Just To Let You Know
J/W Just wondering
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k Okay
KEWL! Cool!
KHYF Know How You Feel.
KINDA Kind of
KIBO Knowledge In, Bullshit Out
KISS Keep It Simple, Stupid.
KIT Keep In Touch.
KMA Kiss My Ass
KOOL Cool
KOTC Kiss on the cheek
KWIM Know What I Mean?
KYFCKeep Your Fingers Crossed
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L Laugh
L2s Laughing to oneself
L8 Late
L8R Later
LABATYD Life's A Bitch And Then You Die
LAB&TYD Life's A Bitch And Then You Die
LEMME Let Me
LIL Let it Last
LJBF Let’s Just Be Friends
LKIT Like It
LLTA Lots and Lots of Thunderous (or Thundering) Applause
LM Love Me
LMA Leave me alone
LMAO Laughing My Ass Off
LMI Let me in
LMHO Laughing My Head Off
LMK Let Me Know
LNS Laughing Non Stop
LOL Laughing Out Loud
LSHIH Laughing so hard it hurts
LSHMBA Laughing So Hard My Belly Aches
LSHMBH Laughing So Hard My Belly Hurts
LST Let’s save time
LTC Long time coming
LTHTT Laughing Too Hard To Type
LTNS Long Time No See
LTNT Long Time, No Type.
LTS Laughing to Self
LUV Love
LUV YA Love You
LUWAMH Love You With All My Heart.
LY Love You
LYLAB Love you like a brother
LYLAS Love you like a sister
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M AM
M8 Mate
M4I Mad for it
MBN Must be Nice
ME2 Me too
MIA Missing in action
MILF Mother I'd like to f***
MIN Minute
MOF Matter Of Fact
MORF Male or female?
MOTAS Member Of The Appropriate Sex
MOTD Message of the day
MOTOS Member Of The Opposite Sex
MOTSS Member Of The Same Sex
MSG Message
MTG Meeting
MTF more to follow
MTFBWY May The Force Be With You.
MYOB Mind Your Own Business
MYS Miss you so
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N In or and
N1! Nice One!
N2N Nice to know
N2M Not too much
N2U Next to you
NAVYNever Again Volunteer Yourself.
NBD No Big Deal
NDBWY Nice doing business with you
NE1 Anyone
NEHOW vAnyhow
NETHING Anything
NEWAY Anyway
NFW No F***in' Way!.
NHOH Never Heard Of Him/Her
NHOT Never heard of that
NIH Not Invented Here.
NIMBY Not In My Back Yard.
NINONothing In, Nothing Out
N/M Not much
NM Never mind
NO1 No one
NOYB None Of Your Business.
NP No Problem
N/P No problem
NQA No Questions Asked.
NTIM Not That It Matters
NT2NITE Not tonight
NTIMM Not That It Matters Much.
NTW Not To Worry.
NTYMI Now That You Mention It
NUTN Nothing
NV Envy
NVM Never Mind
NW Network
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O2U Over to you
OATUS On A Totally Unrelated Subject.
OAUS On An Unrelated Subject.
OBO Or Best Offer
OBTW Oh, By The Way
OIC Oh, I See
OMG Oh my gosh or God!
OMIGOSH Oh my gosh or god!
ONNA Oh No, Not Again
ONNTA Oh No, Not This Again
OO Over and Out
OOB Out of body
OOM Out of mind
OOO Out of order
OTF On the Floor (laughing)
OTFL On the Floor Laughing
OTL Out To Lunch.
OTOH On The Other Hand
OTOOH On The Other, Other Hand.
OTT Over The Top; too much
OTTH On The Third Hand.
OTTOMH Off The Top Of My Head.
OWTTE Or Words To That Effect
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PABG Packing a Big Gun
PAW Parents are watching
PCM Please call me
PDS Please Don't Shout
PFM Please forgive me
PLMK Please let me know
PLS Please
PLZ Please
PMBI Pardon My Butting In.
PMF Pardon My French or Pure Freaking Magic.
PMFBI Pardon Me for Butting In
PMFJI Pardon Me for Jumping In
PMIGBOM Put Mind In Gear, Before Opening Mouth.
PMJI Pardon My Jumping In
PMP Pee my pants
PNCAH Please, No Cursing Allowed Here
POS Parents over shoulder
POSSLQ Person Of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters
PPL People
PPR Paper
PTMM Please Tell Me More
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QT Cutie
QUES Question
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R Are
R U THERE? Are you there?
RAEBNC Read and Enjoyed, But No Comment
RBAY Right back at you
RE Hello again; re-greet or In regard to
REHI Hi again
RHIP Rank Has Its Privileges.
RL Real Life
RLCO Real Life Conference
RM Room
RNT Aren’t
ROFL Rolling On Floor Laughing.
ROFLASTC Rolling On Floor Laughing And Scaring The Cat.
ROFLGO Rolling On Floor Laughing Guts Out.
ROFLMAO Roll On Floor Laughing My Arse Off.
ROTF Rolling On the Floor
ROTFL Rolling On the Floor Laughing
ROTFLAHMS Rolling On the Floor Laughing And Holding My Sides.
ROTFLOL Rolling On the Floor Laughing Out Loud
RRQ Return Receipt Request.
RSN Real Soon Now
RSVP Respondez S'il Vous Plait
RTBM Read the Bloody Manual
RTFAQ Read the Frequently Asked Questions
RTFF Read The Freaking FAQ.
RTFM Read the Freaking Manual
RTM Read the Manual
RTWFQ Read the Whole F***in’Question
RU Are you?
RYFM Read Your Friendly Manual
RYS Read Your Screen.
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S Smile
S2PID Stupid
SAPFU Surpassing All Previous Foul Ups.
SCNR Sorry, Could Not Resist
SDS Sweet Dreams
SEC Wait a second
SETE Smiling Ear To Ear
SFLA Stupid Four Letter Acronym
SICS Sitting In Chair Snickering
SIT Stay in touch
SK8ING Skating
SLM See Last Mail
SMH Shaking my head
SMHOF Set my heart on fire
SMOP Small Matter of Programming
SN Screen name
SNAFU Situation Normal: All Fouled Up
SO Significant Other
SOL SH** Out Of Luck
SOME1 Someone
SORTA Sort of
SOS Same Old Stuff or Help!
SOW Speaking Of Which
SPOZ Suppose
SPOZ2Supposed to
SPOZ2B Supposed to be
SRY Sorry
SS So Sorry
STR8 Straight
STWScared to watch
SU Shut Up
SU4M Stand Up for me
SUL See you later
SUP What’s Up
SUFID Screwing Up Face In Disgust
SWIM See What I Mean?
SWALK Sealed with a loving kiss
SWG Scientific Wild Guess
SWL Screaming With Laughter
SWMBO She who must be obeyed
SYAH Sending you a hug
SYAK Sending you a kiss
SYS See You Soon
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T2G Time to Go
T2GX3 Time to go,go,go
TA To
TAF That's All, folks!.
TAFN That’s All for Now
TANJ There Ain’t No Justice
TANSTAAFL There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
TARFU Things Are Really Fouled Up
TAW Take a walk
TBYB Try Before You Buy.
TDM Too Darn Many
TC Take Care
TFS Three Finger Salute
TFTHAOT Thanks For The Help Ahead Of Time.
TFTT Thanks for The Thought.
TGAL Think Globally, Act Locally.
THX Thanks
TIA Thanks in Advance
TIC Tongue in Cheek
TIFN That’s it for now
TINWIS That Is Not What I Said.
TNSTAAFL There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.
TNTL Trying Not To Laugh
TNX Thanks
TNXE6 Thanks A Million ("E6" means 10 to the 6th power = a million)
TOBAL There ought to be a Law.
TOBG This ought to be good.
TOY Thinking Of You
TPTB The Powers That Be
TRDMC Tears Running Down My Cheeks
TSR Totally Stupid Rules
TTBOMK To The Best Of My Knowledge
TT4N Ta Ta for now
TTFN Ta Ta For Now
TTKSF Trying To Keep a Straight Face
TTUL Talk To You Later.
TTYAWFN Talk To You A While From Now.
TTYL Talk To You Later
TTYT Talk To You Tomorrow
TULE Took you long enough
TUVM Thank you very much
TYCLO Turn Your CAPS LOCK Off (Quit Shouting)
TWB4U That was before you
TY Thank you
TYVM Thank You Very Much
TYVM Thank you very much
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U You
U4IT Up for it
U4ME You for Me
UAD You always do
UAN Up all night
U’D You’d
ULL You’ll
UMI You made it
UNO you know
UR Your or you’re
URGR8 You are great
URLI You’re losing it
URS Yours
URSELF yourself
URVW You’re very welcome
UOK Are You OK?
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VFM Value for Money
VK Virtual Kiss
VS Virtual Sex
VVE Very Very Easy
VVH Very Very Hard