Acronyms

This is a list of common acronyms and initialisms used within the KoL community.

Acronym	Meaning	Type
AAR	Anti-Antiraffle	Chat - Games
AC	Advanced Cocktailcrafting	Skills
AHBG	Ancient Hobo Burial Ground	Adventuring Areas
AoB	Avatar of Boris	Ascension
AoJ	Avatar of Jarlsberg	Ascension
AoSP	Avatar of Sneaky Pete	Ascension
APJ	awful poetry journal	Items
AR	Antiraffle	Chat - Games
AT	Accordion Thief	Classes
BALLS	Basic Automated Loathing Language Scripts	Miscellaneous
BB	Buddy Bjorn	Items
BBB	Baby Bugged Bugbear or Bulky Buddy Box	Familiars
BHH	Bounty Hunter Hunter	Miscellaneous
BHY	Bees Hate You	Ascension
BM	Bad Moon	Ascension
BRC	bottle-rocket crossbow	Items
CAF	custom avatar form	Items
CBS	crazy bastard sword	Items
CCW	Counterclockwise Watch	Items
CoT	Crown of Thrones	Items
DB	Disco Bandit	Classes
DC	Display Case	Miscellaneous
DD	Daily Dungeon	Adventuring Areas
DFSS	Double-Fisted Skull Smashing	Skills
DMS	dense meat stack	Items
DoD	Dungeons of Doom	Adventuring Areas
FFS	Falls-From-Sky	Monsters
FoB	Feast of Boris	Holidays
GAP	Greatest American Pants	Items
GGG	Gluttonous Green Ghost	Familiars
GMA	Golden Mr. Accessory	Items
GMOB	Guy Made Of Bees	Monsters
HC	Hardcore	Ascension
HCB	Hardcore Boozetafarian	Ascension
HCNP	Hardcore No Path	Ascension
HCO	Hardcore Oxygenarian	Ascension
HCT	Hardcore Teetotaler	Ascension
HitS	Hole in the Sky	Adventuring Areas
HOA	Homeowners' Association	Monsters
HM	Hard Mode (Dreadsylvania bosses)	Miscellaneous
HP	Hit Points or Hardcore Permanent (when talking about skills)	Miscellaneous
IDMG	incredibly dense meat gem	Items
IotM	Item of the Month	Miscellaneous
IRL	In Real Life	Miscellaneous
ISoRE	Irritating Series of Random Encounters	Monsters
JEW/JEW hat	jewel-eyed wizard hat	Items
KGE	Knob Goblin Elite Guard Uniform (Guard Uniform)	Items
KLP	Key lime pie	Items
KoL	Kingdom of Loathing	Miscellaneous
LEW	Legendary Epic Weapon	Items
LFM	Lobsterfrogman	Monsters
LTS	Lunging Thrust-Smack	Skills
MCD	The various Monster Aggravation Devices (originally only the Mind-Control Device)	Miscellaneous
ML	Monster Level	Miscellaneous
MMG	Money Making Game	Miscellaneous
MMJ	magical mystery juice	Items - Consumables
MP	Mana, Muscularity, or Mojo Points	Miscellaneous
MPA	Meat per Adventure	Miscellaneous
Mr. A	Mr. Accessory	Items
Mr. A Jr.	Mr. Accessory Jr.	Items
Ms. A	Ms. Accessory	Items
NO	Noblesse Oblige	Miscellaneous
NPZR	Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot	Familiars
NS or NS1/NS2/NS3	Naughty Sorceress or her various forms	Ascension
NS11	Pre-NS13 era (Naughty Sorceress Quest at level 11)	Ascension
NS13	Post-NS11 era (Naughty Sorceress Quest at level 13)	Ascension
O.A.F. or OAF	Optimal Ascension Familiar	Familiars
OP	Original Post(er) (used on the forums)	Chat
PBS	Pygmy Bugbear Shaman	Familiars
PLD	Purple Light District	Adventuring Areas
PM	Private Message (a.k.a. Blue Message)or Pastamancer	Chat/Classes
PSA	Public Sale Announcement	Chat - Games
PYEC	Platinum Yendorian Express Card	Items
RL	Real Life	Miscellaneous
RNG	Random Number Generator	Miscellaneous
RPG	role-playing game	Miscellaneous
SBIP	sword behind inappropriate prepositions	Items
SC	Softcore or Seal Clubber	Ascension/Classes
SCNP	Softcore No Path	Ascension
SCO	Softcore Oxygenarian	Ascension
SFF	Sugar Fruit Fairy	Familiars
SGEEA	soft green echo eyedrop antidote	Items - Consumables
SHC	Superhuman Cocktailcrafting	Skills
SR	Sauceror or semi-rare	Classes/Miscellaneous
SSPD	St. Sneaky Pete's Day	Holidays
TP	Tiny Plastic or toilet paper	Items
TPS	tiny plastic sword	Items
TPTB	The Powers That Be (a.k.a. the developers and maintainers of Loathing)	Miscellaneous
TPTMBG	The Powers That Might Be Giants (a bastardization of TPTB and TMBG)	Miscellaneous
TT	Turtle Tamer or Traveling Trader	Classes
WAF	Wizard Action Figure	Familiars
WotSF	Way of the Surprising Fist	Ascension
WTB	Want To Buy	Chat - Trade
WTH	Want To Hire (for various clan dungeon-related things, usually Dreadsylvania-related)	Chat - Trade
WTS	Want To Sell	Chat - Trade
WTT	Want To Trade	Chat - Trade
XP	Experience Points (stat gain)	Miscellaneous
YR/YORoIDS	Yellow Ray (Yellow Obliterating Ray of Item Dropping Sexiness; name stems from first source, the He-Boulder's yellow beam)	Miscellaneous
ZS	Zombie Slayer	Classes

Notes

• For the few that share acronyms - SC, PM, TT, SR, PM, HP and BBB - they all tend to be context specific. We try and work with what we're given.