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How well do you know your acronyms, jargon, and slang?

Asked by Hypocrisy_Central (26879points) January 4th, 2016

Do you know what each of the following is?

• SOP
• TBC
• NIMBY
• DIY
• TMI
• IMO
• IDK
• OEM
• REO
• OS
• ROM
• RAM
• ECM
• Squid
• Jarhead
• IED
• LED
• “Skizzer”
• Ink
• “zip zappers”
• D-boy
• Bling
• Gat
• Double glove it.
• Five ‘O’
• Hammer
• Bucket
• Beater
• 20s
• Hit it and quit it.
• Stick
• Toss up

How many did you get correct, you think?

(Yeah, it is kinda fluffy)

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11 Answers

JLeslie's avatar

Around 10 or 12 of them.

filmfann's avatar

I know most of them. One problem is that often acronyms can have several meanings.
OCD is one example.

Seek's avatar

I know most of them.

Squid, REO, ECM, and zip zappers I don’t know.

A few others have multiple possible meanings.

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

^ Squid, REO, ECM, and zip zappers I don’t know.
Stick around, you may k now them in a bit.

A few others have multiple possible meanings.
That is true, just as @filmfann said, but at least it is still correct even if there are other meanings attached to it.

dxs's avatar

Some of them I feel like I don’t want to know.

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Nugget #1 in honor of @Seek, ECM is (but maybe something else too) the Emissions Control Module in your vehicle, basically the “brain” that is suppose to keep your engine running at top efficiency. It can go by other names depending on manufacturer, but I see it called the ECM more than not.

jerv's avatar

I am used those being referred to as ECU (Engine Control Unit), and seeing ECM in a more military sense as Electronic CounterMeasures.

@Seek You may not know what a Squid is, but I know that you know at least one person that used to be one.

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Nugget #2 in honor of @Seek, REO is Real Estate Owned. Around here, that is the house you lost that the bank now owns, so basically it is foreclosure real estate in the hands of a mortgagor or lender.

Seek's avatar

I only know of the Speedwagon.

dxs's avatar

@Hypocrisy_Central Do most professionally owned buildings have such a history?

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

@dxs Do most professionally owned buildings have such a history?
From what I know around here, very rarely, most professional buildings are owned by individuals with deep, deep pockets so they have other assets to draw from to pay the note on any professional building even if they did not have the tenets to cover the mortgage. Either that or the buildings are usually corporate owned or owned by an LLC, which has far more protection financially than John Q who has a home he lives in or rents. The problem with most John Q landlords is that they need a renter to cover the note on the house they are renting, if they had the income that could support paying the mortgage on 5 houses without breaking the bank and they had three rental houses, if one sat dormant for a year they could still pay for it and not eat Ramen every night trying not to go belly up.

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