We have less time for things now a days and we use short and quick words to make our life easier. Its also a nice way to represent our gestures and emotions in a proper and meaningful way. With constantly growing of these short forms we have selected few which are most popular and most used on internet & mobiles.
List of Abbreviations or Slang Words, We Use in day to day Life
AFK – Away From Keyboard
ASAP - As Soon As Possible
ASL – Age/Sex/Location
ATM – At The Moment
A3 - Anytime, Anywhere, Anyplace
BBL - Be Back Later
BBS – Be Back Soon
BBQ - Barbecue
BFN/B4N – Bye For Now
BRB – Be Right Back
BRT – Be Right There
BTW – By The Way
B4N – Bye For Now
Blog - Also known as web log or an online journal
CU – See You
CYA – See You
CUZ - Because
DND - Do not Disturb
EOF - End Of File
FAQ - Frequently asked questions
FTL - For the loss
FTW – For the win
FYI - For your information
GR8 – Great!
GTG – Got to Go
G9 – Genius
GBTW – Get back to work
GF - Great/good fight/girlfriend
GFU - Good for you
Gratz - Congratulations
GM - Good Morning
GN - Good Night
HAND - Have A Nice Day
HF - Have fun
IC – I See
ICQ – I Seek you
ILU – I Love You
IM - Instant Messenger
J/K - Just kidding
KISS - Keep it simple stupid
LDR – Long Distance Relationship
LMAO – Laugh My Ass Off
LOL – Laughing Out Loud
LTNS – Long Time No See
L8R – Later
M/F – Male or Female
Msg - Message
M8 - Mate
NE1 – Anyone
NP - No Problem
OIC – Oh I See
OS – Operating system
OMG – Oh my God!
PLZ – Please
PPL - People
RIP - Rest in Piece
s2pid - stupid
SD - Sweet Dreams
SEC- second
sk8 – skate
Some1 - someone
Spoz – suppose
Sry – sorry
SS – so sorry
str8 - Straight
SU – shut up
SYS - see you soon
SUP - What’s Up
SYL - See you later
THX – Thank You
TTYL - Talk To You Later
TG – That’s great
TOS - Terms of service
TC – Take Care
U - You
U4E – Yours For Eve
WB - Welcome Back
WTF - What the Fuck
W8 – Wait…
If you have any other Short forms that you use, you can share them with us in comments. And we will definitely add them to the post.








Thanks for sharing the terminologies, believe me I ve been using many of them without knowing the meaning of them I just use them according to the situations.
i am using these shortcuts but never thought of there meaning.
Coz u were stupid!
Asshole, that was mean now.
you are really as ol
tat shows how a girl sucking the mind of a boy without knowing the exact meanings LMAO 
Thanx 4 such a great blog.i think no body else can do this job that u did.hats of for u buddy.
thax budy…..i always try my bst to help all of my frnds…
I hardly knew 25 among these, thanks for the rest of them vikas.
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Wow…vikas you are such a nice writer…its very very very helpful for every one…..such a nice blog.thanks buddy
thx dude….i try my best to help every one….
Thanks, for sharing these slang words
i was unaware of some of them. Nice work.
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lots of words r used for short term chat but these r the most popular word used in chat…i tried my bst..
What is SPO stand for .thanks
SPO stands for
* Sausage Peppers and Onions
* SPO Supreme Poetical Orator (rapper)
* SPO Sales Prevention Officer
You forgot… (these are common)
IDK i dont know
IMO in my opinion
AFAIK as far as i know
IRL in real life
NSFW not safe for work
OP original poster
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these r not so usefull
its so noce.wvery body should get knowledge about these kind of shorts that are so useful in daily regular life…thaks vikas….
thx akhilesh…these word realy help u….
Hi vikas….nice work Man..i am so impressed….can we talk…
thx i m glad tat u liked it..will surely wait 4 tat moment.
BTW in Dutch stands for a certain type of taxes. I found this out the hard way when talking to a Dutch customer and we kind of went into miscommunication because of it
. But than again w8 is exachtly the same in Dutch
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Funny article btw
Thanks, for sharing these words
thanks much i donot chat often the only terms i know was lol and asl great list.
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thx…..
hey thnks 4 sharing lots of shortcuts..really usefull.grt information.
impressive ha
thx….this will help u all time
It is such a great blog.It will affect my daily life so much.I really need that.thank u so much.
Lol…many are new terms for me. Specially AFK.
vikas m w8ing 4 ur nxt blog…….u r a gr8 writer………..
Thanks for this list – I thought that I was up to date with my technology lingo but I guess I’m far from it.
You should create a quiz to test how many people know these words
I think I’d be about 60% at the most.
Thanks again for your post – I’ll come back to see what other interesting things you have to share.
Thank you.
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TG
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After reading this list, I seriously feel I am getting old.
My school going cousin told the other day what is WTF
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u r such a noob!!!!!
cool post.. tanx
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tks…
I.M.H.O. (In My Humble Opinion), this was a great post…
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JS
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hi,
you didnt write word ty witch means Thank You
Greetings
Another one that My son had to explain to me: FML = F&*% My Life
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Lol great list…. Definitely need this explanation.
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Hi,
Thanks for the great blog, great list indeed, will keep in mind and update myself.
Thanks once again
You looked so retarded ….lol
thnx 4 sharing dis cos it will really help.
great idea u’ve got.kip it rolling.
FLYFF-FlyForFun,
Are You using Drugs? Fly For fun!!
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hie vikas,
vry nice blog
hi ,nice work dude
omfg u guys dont even know this its the easiest shit
awesum….thnx fr sharing..
Cool post.. a MUST KNOW for today’s termnology.
u should add: IDK – I don’t know
FML – Fuck my life
those could come in handy.. especially the 2nd one
hey.. add these too.
86 D – a plan getting cancelled or getting thrown out
my bad – my mistake
wanksta – someone trying to act tough but isn’t really pulling it off very well
bait – danger of being caught
crunk – cross between crazy and drunk
chillax – relax
yolla – a combination of yo and holla
iced out – wearing a lot of jewellery
weaksauce – a joke dat doesn’t make u laugh
BTW .gud work!!
thanks for useful blog… buddy.. anyways thanks
You enlighten me. Thanks for sharing. =)
thanks for sharing..vikas
great job buddy
tnx god ! i alomost ask my friend while we’re chatting the meaning of brb ,hehehehe…fortunately i tried to search it and found this page.
by the way i’d like to ask what is xd? cuz someone has mention xd while we were talking about an online game
Nice info
yp=yup
mulu=miss you love you
tc=take care
gws=get well soon
5n=fine
wgo=what’s going on
cul=catch you latter
Thanx for sharing this information it helped me alot
ThnxXx 4 all of thz shrt frms
Thanks for this, it helps me all the time. I love it……!
its a grt wrk vikas… tnks. keep it up.
nice informations……i was in the search for the meaning of ‘brb’. i was sad…sometimes she said…”sorry i cant to come now..because im boring brother……”
but when i got the meaning, i am so happy….i can’t to explain it…….:)
thanks yaaar……mwaaaaah
thanks for th
thanks for this
GUYS,
initially i was so confused abt these shortcuts…….bt now…..i can reply’em too…thnx….
we use ‘LUL’ as love u lovely
THANKS 4 SLV
Thx
very usefull 4 all chatters..thank u very much my dear frnd
What a great collection of abbreviation not only good but also useful & time saving
nice work man…it’z very useful 2 me.
wtf-wednesday,thursday,friday
yup, very useful for everyone, thanx a lot bro
Gr8.=Great
c = See
c u = see you
c u 2marro.
Y = Why
Nxt =Next
sms = short message service / Text message
MMS = Multimedia message
f9 = Fine
2 = to
4 = for
omg = O MY GOD !
thanx 4 reading.
c’mon = come on
i’m just a short writter chat boy, and am alright with the short sms writting i saw here
Thx much I always look 4 them one by one glad 4 D list gd wk
Add these too:
atb:-all the best
tq:- thanks
it is a nice work u r doing.
RIP also means Rest in Peace
Add that too plz
these can be added to the list:
imu-i miss you
inu-i need you
iwu-i want you
thx for yur note….i have edited it..