Internet Word of the Day Archive

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  • January 01, 2012

    XQZT - Acronym of the Day

    Exquisite



  • January 02, 2012

    trap car - Word of the Day Jargon

    Slang for a drug dealer's car that's been retrofitted with James Bond-style auto hacks such as elaborate hidden compartments, gun stashes, booby traps, and rear halogen lights to blind pursuing law enforcement.



  • January 03, 2012

    TTS - Acronym of the Day

    Text To Speech

    blackholing - Word of the Day Jargon

    When an ISP or other online service automatically deletes all e-mail coming from a certain domain without delivering it. For example, "Sites have been blackholing all Well email, legitimate or not, because of the quantity of Well-relayed spam deluging their servers."



  • January 04, 2012

    cyberluddites - Word of the Day Jargon

    Net users who are against the World Wide Web and Net commercialism and want it to return to all text-based communications.



  • January 05, 2012

    RFP - Acronym of the Day

    Request For Proposal

    extremophile - Word of the Day Jargon

    Slang for an organism that can live in conditions of heat, radiation, or toxicity normally considered inhospitable to life.



  • January 06, 2012

    rollover - Word of the Day Jargon

    A technique when using JavaScript, allows for an alternate image to be displayed when the mouse rolls over a specific line of text or graphic on the Web page. The "rollover" typically displays a copyright notice on top of the image. If the user attempts to capture the image using the right click "save image as" option, the alternate image (such as the copyright) is captured instead. The term rollover was created to recognize that there is a little ball in your mouse that you roll on a surface.



  • January 07, 2012

    BBBG - Acronym of the Day

    Bye Bye Be Good



  • January 08, 2012

    beos - Acronym of the Day

    Nudge



  • January 09, 2012

    CRS - Acronym of the Day

    Can't Remember Sh**



  • January 10, 2012

    YHM - Acronym of the Day

    You Have Mail



  • January 11, 2012

    NIMQ - Acronym of the Day

    Not In My Queue



  • January 12, 2012

    WF - Acronym of the Day

    Way Fun



  • January 13, 2012

    DUST - Acronym of the Day

    Did You See That?



  • January 16, 2012

    LTR - Acronym of the Day

    Long Term Relationship



  • January 17, 2012

    MA - Acronym of the Day

    Mature Audience



  • January 18, 2012

    r u goin - Acronym of the Day

    are you going?



  • January 19, 2012

    ur - Acronym of the Day

    you are



  • January 22, 2012

    IOH - Acronym of the Day

    I'm Outta Here



  • January 23, 2012

    BM - Acronym of the Day

    Byte Me



  • January 26, 2012

    LDTTWA - Acronym of the Day

    Let's Do The Time Warp Again



  • January 27, 2012

    LYB - Acronym of the Day

    Love You Babe



  • January 28, 2012

    BSF - Acronym of the Day

    But Seriously, Folks



  • January 29, 2012

    TAH - Acronym of the Day

    Take A Hike



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