here's an updated version of a thread that slimboli started back on March 2, 2009. It went through several updates, which are HTF in the various pages of the original thread, so...
Slimboli wrote:
Time to start a 'fresh' new thread on the commonly used acronyms ... since the old one finally was killed off. Now we can all add-on to the ones that are missing in the list below:
Hope this helps some of you 'newbies' ...
898 varn = 898 Varnished, a cc produced by Partagas
AB = Alec Bradley
AF = Arturo Fuente
AFAIK - = As far as I know
AKA = Also known as
asc = alt.smokers.cigars (a USENET Newsgroup)
bb (or bbs) = bulletin board, boards or forum
BnA = Berger and Argenti
BBF = Bolivar Belicoso Fino
Big Smoke = cA's cigar events.
BLTTW = Be less trouble that way
B&M = Brick and Mortar, local shop/shpo, also BnM
Boli CG = Bolivar Coronas Gigantes
BOTL/SOTL = Brother/Sister of the Leaf
BS = Hemingway Best Seller
BTL = Hemingway Between The Lines
CA = Cigar Afficianado
CAT = Cigar A Thon
cammie = Cameroon
CBL = Connecticut Broad Leaf
CC = Cuban Cigar
CF = Cigar Family
Connie = Consuegra (seconds to Punch, HdM, ERDM) or Connecticut leaf
Coolerdor = Ice Chest/Cooler used to store cigars
CS = Connecticut Shade Wrapper
CUL8R = See you later
CW = Cigar Weekly/CigarWise
D4 = Partagas D-4 (Robustos), also PSD4
DC = Don Carlos, Double Corona, or Diamond Crown
DD = Donkey Dropping
DE = Drew Estates
DILLIGAF = Do I Look Like I Give a F@#%?
Dog Rocket = POS, PI, White Owl Pineapple, unsmokeable
DPG EC = Don Pepin Garcia El Centurian
ELO = exclusive cigars periodically sold by an on-line cigar store
EPC = E.P. Carillo
EPI 1 = Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No 1 (corona gorda)
EPI 2 = Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No 2 (robusto
ERDM = El Rey Del Mundo
ESG = Ashton Estate Sun Grown
FAQ = Frequently Asked Question
FCOL = For Crying Out Loud
FFOX = Fuente Fuente Opus X
FFP = Feral Flying Pig, the biggest of Liga Privada Unico line, also includes the Dirty Rat, L40, Papas Fritas
FMITA = F*** Me In The Azz
FNG = F***ing New Guy, see "noob"
FOAD = F*** off and Die
FOG = F***ing Old Guy
FUBAR = F***ed up beyond all recognition
FWIW = For what it's worth
FYA = For your amusement
FYI = For your information
GH = Gran Habano
HDM = Hoyo de Monterrey
Herf = A gathering of people enjoying cigars and the company of each other
HOTM = Hit Of The Month
HP = Herfer's Paradise
HTF = Hard to find
IBTL = In Before the Lock, I'll Be Trish Licked: defiant posts before getting tossed/banned (ty Tiger)
IHNDIWTFYATA = I Have No Damned Idea What The F*** You Are Talking About
IIRC = If I recall correctly
IMHO = In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO = In my not so humble opinion
IMO = In my opinion
ISO = In search of
ISOM = Island South Of Miami, Cuba
JDN = Joya de Nicaragua
JG = Jaime Garcia
J/K = Just kidding
JL = Juan Lopez
JL S2 = Juan Lopez Seleccion No 2 (Robustos)
L = Laugh
L8R = Later
LA = La Aurora
LAdC = La Aroma de Cuba
LAM = Look At Me, posting without circumspection, also LAME, Look At Me Everybody!
LFR = Large Flat Rate, large fixed cost shipping box, U.S. Postal Service
LE = Limited Edition
LFD = La Flor Dominicana
LG = Litto Gomez, and LGD for Litto Gomez Diez
LGC = La Gloria Cubana
LHC = La Herencia Cubana
LL = LaLuna
LL AF = LaLuna African Fuerte
LL LHB = LaLuna Little Havana Blend
LL MF = LaLuna Maduro Fuerte
LMAO = Laughing my a** off
LOL = Laugh Out Loud
LOTL = Lovers of the Leaf
LP = Liga Privada
LRE = La Rosa Especial
Lusi = Partagas Lusitanias
LVR = Hemingway Limited Vintage Release
M&B = Moore and Bode
Mac = Macanudo
Mad or Maddie = maduro
MAP = Minimum Advertised Price, a price floor set by cigar makers to purveyors, trying to hold the line on their products
MF = My Father
MF LB = My Father Le Bijou
MFR = Medium Flat Rate, medium fixed cost shipping box, U.S. Postal Service
MMMM = Maria Mancini Magic Mountain
MPM = Hemingway Masterpiece Maduro
MOAB = Mother of All Bombs, a Viaje cigar
Monte = Montecristo
MOW = Man O War
MP = Hemingway Masterpiece
MT = empty, squat, barren, nada, zilch... ie: Blueboy's gunador is MT
MUWAT = My Uzi Weighs A Ton
Nat, Nattie = natural (cameroon, Connecticut Shade, etc.), light brown colored leaf
NC, nc = Non Cuban
NH, nh = never had
NONV = noob on noob violence
noob = Odious POS unworthy of consideration, newbie
nood = See above
OF = Old Fashioned (seconds to Partagas, Cohiba and Macanudo)
OLH = Online Humidor, website where private persons sell and buy cigars
OO = Omar Ortez
OP = Original Post(er)
OpNBC = Operation Noob Birthday Club
OR = Original Release
OpFTH = Operation From The Heart, charitable org. that sends care packages to the troops overseas
OSOK = One Shot One Kill, cigars made by Edgar Hoill (famous photographer) and Christian Eiroa (Camacho, CLE)
OTT = Off The Truck
PAD = Padron
PAM = Padron Anniversario Maduro
PAN = Padron Anniversario Natural
PBP = Punch Black Prince
PC = Petite Corona
PERF X = FFOX Perfexcion X
PI = Puros Indios
PIB/PIF = Pay it Back/Pay it Forward, cigar trading methods used in Trades section
PL = Petite Lancero, Por Larranaga
POS = Piece of Sh*t
PP = Punch Punch
PSD4 = Partagas Serie D #4
RAG = Ramon Allones Gigantes
RAOK = Random Act of Kindness
RASCC = Ramon Allones Small Club Coronas
RASS = Ramon Allones Specially Selected
RC = Bolivar Royal Coronas
RdC = FFOX Reserva de Chateau
RH = Relative Humidity
ROTFL = Rolling on the Floor Laughing (also ROFL)
ROTFLMAO = Roll on the floor laughing my a** off
ROTFLMAOPIMP = ROTFLMAO Peeing in My Pants
RP = Rocky Patel
RTFI = Read the F****** Instructions!
RTFWP, RTFWOP = Return to Forum Without Posting
RyJ = Romeo & Julieta
RyJ CF = Romeo y Julieta Celestiales Finos (panatella)
RyJ POW = Romeo y Julieta Prince of Wales
Sams-a-dor = cheap, but nice, humidor, purchased at Sam's Club
SB = Skull and Bones
SCdLH = San Cristobal de La Habana
SDB = Standard Dress Box
SFR = Small Flat Rate, small fixed cost shipping box, US Postal Service
SG = Sun Grown
shpo = local cigar store, B&M, possibly in protection racket, definitely dyslexic
SIG = Hemingway Signature
SLB = Slide Lid Box (cigar box or mini-cab with a slide lid top)
SLR = Saint Louis Rey
SnS = Saints and Sinners, Tatuaje cigar club
SNAFU = Situation Normal All F@#ked Up
SS = Hemingway Short Story
TAA = Tobacco Association of America
TAD = Tobacco Acquisition Disorder, common affliction caused by hanging around here
Tat = Tatuaje
TIA = Thanks in Advance
TOP = A way bring attention to a msg thread without adding content/ posting this will take the thread to the top of the board: also "ttt = to the top"
TTFN = Ta Ta for Now
TTT = To the Top, also "ttt" and "TOP," to take a thread to the top of the board.
TTYL = Talk to You Later or Type to You Later
Tupperdor = Tupperware container used to store cigars
UC = Undercrown, Unholy Cocktail
UPP SW = H Uppman Sir Winston
UTS = Hemingway Untold Story
V = Vintage
Vet = Glorious Articulate Smart Benevolent Accomplished Giant
VR = Vegas Robaina
VR DA = Vegas Robaina Don Alejandros (prominente)
VSG = Ashton Virgin Sun Grown
WGAF - Who gives a frig?
WOA = Hemingway Work of Art
WOAM = Work of Art Maduro
WTF = What the Foobar?
xXx = Opus X^3 (Power Ranger)
YMMV = your mileage may vary
Edited: 12/23/15
