What’s the meaning of asl, brb, lol, wtf, pw, afa, atm, faq, tos.. etc – Collection of most used abbreviations


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.

About Vikas

is a Software Engineer, .Net Developer, and a blogger from Jaipur.
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82 Responses to What’s the meaning of asl, brb, lol, wtf, pw, afa, atm, faq, tos.. etc – Collection of most used abbreviations

  1. 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.

  2. Niket says:

    Thanx 4 such a great blog.i think no body else can do this job that u did.hats of for u buddy.

  3. I hardly knew 25 among these, thanks for the rest of them vikas.
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  4. Piyush says:

    Wow…vikas you are such a nice writer…its very very very helpful for every one…..such a nice blog.thanks buddy

  5. Thanks, for sharing these slang words :) i was unaware of some of them. Nice work.
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  6. Shawn K. says:

    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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  7. Akhilesh says:

    its so noce.wvery body should get knowledge about these kind of shorts that are so useful in daily regular life…thaks vikas….

  8. Tamanna says:

    Hi vikas….nice work Man..i am so impressed….can we talk…

  9. 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 :-) .

    Funny article btw ;)

  10. Thanks, for sharing these words :)

  11. hisoom says:

    thanks much i donot chat often the only terms i know was lol and asl great list.
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  12. neha says:

    hey thnks 4 sharing lots of shortcuts..really usefull.grt information.
    impressive ha

  13. Anand says:

    It is such a great blog.It will affect my daily life so much.I really need that.thank u so much.

  14. abhi says:

    Lol…many are new terms for me. Specially AFK.

  15. Tamanna says:

    vikas m w8ing 4 ur nxt blog…….u r a gr8 writer………..

  16. 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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  17. wiredcubes says:

    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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  18. jotaesse says:

    tks…

    I.M.H.O. (In My Humble Opinion), this was a great post…
    [ ]s
    JS
    .-= jotaesse´s last blog ..grammy 2010 =-.

  19. Slodope says:

    hi,

    you didnt write word ty witch means Thank You

    Greetings

  20. Lynn says:

    Another one that My son had to explain to me: FML = F&*% My Life
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  21. ecimeng says:

    Lol great list…. Definitely need this explanation.
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  22. cheers says:

    Hi,

    Thanks for the great blog, great list indeed, will keep in mind and update myself.

    Thanks once again

  23. the pro says:

    You looked so retarded ….lol

  24. seun says:

    thnx 4 sharing dis cos it will really help.

  25. seun says:

    great idea u’ve got.kip it rolling.

  26. ronald says:

    FLYFF-FlyForFun,

    Are You using Drugs? Fly For fun!!

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  28. siri says:

    hie vikas,
    vry nice blog

  29. siri says:

    hi ,nice work dude :)

  30. christian says:

    omfg u guys dont even know this its the easiest shit

  31. Aashi says:

    awesum….thnx fr sharing..

  32. Jeff says:

    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 :)

  33. jayashree says:

    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!!

  34. samid says:

    thanks for useful blog… buddy.. anyways thanks

  35. April says:

    You enlighten me. Thanks for sharing. =)

  36. Sweetu says:

    thanks for sharing..vikas

  37. msn says:

    great job buddy

  38. jolan says:

    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.

  39. jolan says:

    by the way i’d like to ask what is xd? cuz someone has mention xd while we were talking about an online game

  40. Manoj Sharma says:

    Nice info

  41. Sidhant says:

    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

  42. suhail says:

    Thanx for sharing this information it helped me alot

  43. Shehrooz Awan says:

    ThnxXx 4 all of thz shrt frms

  44. Thanks for this, it helps me all the time. I love it……!

  45. jith says:

    its a grt wrk vikas… tnks. keep it up.

  46. anas says:

    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

  47. DAYA says:

    thanks for th

  48. DAYA says:

    thanks for this

    GUYS,

  49. sahil says:

    initially i was so confused abt these shortcuts…….bt now…..i can reply’em too…thnx….

  50. Rahul says:

    we use ‘LUL’ as love u lovely

  51. RANJAN KUMAR says:

    THANKS 4 SLV

  52. vinesh says:

    very usefull 4 all chatters..thank u very much my dear frnd

  53. blueapple says:

    What a great collection of abbreviation not only good but also useful & time saving

  54. udara says:

    nice work man…it’z very useful 2 me.

  55. shaantanu devansh says:

    wtf-wednesday,thursday,friday

  56. raja says:

    yup, very useful for everyone, thanx a lot bro

  57. Vineeta says:

    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.

  58. daniel says:

    i’m just a short writter chat boy, and am alright with the short sms writting i saw here

  59. jennifer says:

    Thx much I always look 4 them one by one glad 4 D list gd wk

  60. Bindiya Garg says:

    Add these too:
    atb:-all the best
    tq:- thanks

    it is a nice work u r doing.

  61. Bindiya Garg says:

    RIP also means Rest in Peace

    Add that too plz

  62. joseph says:

    these can be added to the list:
    imu-i miss you
    inu-i need you
    iwu-i want you

  63. Vikas says:

    thx for yur note….i have edited it..

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