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 = Partagas 898 Varnished, cc

AB = Alec Bradley

AF = Arturo Fuente

AFAIK - = As far as I know

AKA = Also known as

BnA = Berger and Argenti

BBF = Bolivar Belicoso Fino

BLTTW = Be less trouble that way

B&M = Brick and Mortar, local shop, 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

Connie = Consuegra (seconds to Punch, HdM, ERDM) or Connecticut leaf

Coolerdor = Ice Chest/Cooler used to store cigars

CS = Connecticut Shade Wrapper

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@#%?

DMS = Don't 'Member Sh*t

Dog Rocket = POS, PI, White Owl Pineapple, unsmokeable

DPG EC = Don Pepin Garcia, El Centurian

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

FAQ = Frequently Asked Question

FCOL = For Crying Out Loud

FFOX = Fuente Fuente Opus X

FFP = Feral Flying Pig

FIFY = Fixed It For You, also Fixed

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

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

INWAP! = I'm Not Wearing Any Pants!

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

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

LGC = La Gloria Cubana

LHC = La Herencia Cubana

LMAO = Laughing my a** off

LOL = Laugh Out Loud

LOTL = Lovers of the Leaf

LP = Liga Privada

Lusi = Partagas Lusitanias

LVR = Hemingway Limited Vintage Release

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, also, Mouthfeel - total oral sensory experience: taste, texture, temperature and tactile, from food, drink or smoke

MF LB = My Father Le Bijou

MFR = Medium Flat Rate, medium fixed cost shipping box, U.S. Postal Service

MPM = Hemingway Masterpiece Maduro

MOAB = Mother of All Bombs

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.)

NC, nc = Non Cuban

NH, nh = never had

NONV = noob on noob violence

noob = Odious POS unworthy of consideration, newbie

nood = See above

OLH = Online Humidor, website where private persons sell and buy cigars

OP = Original Post(er)

OR = Original Release

OpFTH = Operation From The Heart, charitable org. that sends care packages to the troops overseas

OSOK = One Shot One Kill

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, types of box-passes occasionally offered here

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

ROTT = Right Off The Truck

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 = a 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 (box or mini-cab with a top that slides open)

SLR = Saint Louis Rey

SnS = Saints and Sinners, Tat cigar club

SNAFU = Situation Normal All F@#ked Up

SS = Hemingway Short Story

STIR = Spend(ing) Time In Reality

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"

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 = Vega Robaina

VR DA = Vega 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 12/2017

can't let Ram do all the work

hey Ram...I've been slacking

ROTT = right off the truck

I haven't been one to shy away from smoking rott, but hnixon can give you a dissertation on it

Oy vey TTT

TTT for 2021

Fixed it for you

Oy vey here we go again.........TOP Together please.