Acronyms

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

Acronym	Meaning	Type
2CRS	Two Crazy Random Summer	Ascension
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
AWoL	Avatar of West of Loathing	Ascension
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 - Equipment
BTR	Belch The Rainbow	Skills
CAF	custom avatar form	Items
CBS	crazy bastard sword	Items - Equipment
CCW	Counterclockwise Watch	Items - Equipment
CoT	Crown of Thrones	Items
CS	Community Service	Ascension
DA	Damage Absorption	Game Mechanic
DB	Disco Bandit	Classes
DC	Display Case	Miscellaneous
DCDB	the Display Case Database	Miscellaneous
DD	Daily Dungeon or Disguises Delimit	Adventuring areas or Ascension
DFSS	Double-Fisted Skull Smashing	Skills
DG	Dark Gyffte	Ascension
DMS	dense meat stack	Items
DoD	Dungeons of Doom	Adventuring areas
DR	Damage Reduction	Game Mechanic
FFS	Falls-From-Sky	Monsters
FoB	Feast of Boris	Holidays
GAP	Greatest American Pants	Items - Equipment
GGG	Gluttonous Green Ghost	Familiars
GMA	Golden Mr. Accessory	Items
GMOB	Guy Made Of Bees	Monsters
grops	Green Ops Soldier	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)	Stats or Ascension
IDMG	incredibly dense meat gem	Items
IotM	Item of the Month	Items - Various
IRL	in real life	Common Internet slang
ISoRE	Irritating Series of Random Encounters	Monsters
JEW/JEW hat	jewel-eyed wizard hat	Items - Equipment
KGE	Knob Goblin Elite [Guard Uniform]	Items - Equipment
KLP	key lime pie	Items (multiple)
KoE	Kingdom of Exploathing	Ascension
KoL	Kingdom of Loathing	Game
LEW	Legendary Epic Weapon	Items - Equipment
LFM	Lobsterfrogman	Monsters
LKS	Low Key Summer	Ascension
LTA	License to Adventure	Ascension
LTS	Lunging Thrust-Smack	Skills
MCD	The various Monster Aggravation Devices (originally only the Mind-Control Device)	Miscellaneous
ML	Monster Level	Game mechanic
MMG	Money Making Game	Miscellaneous
MMJ	magical mystery juice	Items - Consumables
MP	Mana, Muscularity, or Mojo Points	Game mechanic - Stats
MPA	Meat per adventure	Miscellaneous
Mr. A	Mr. Accessory	Items
Mr. A Jr.	Mr. Accessory Jr.	Items
Ms. A	Ms. Accessory	Items
NC	Non-combat	Game Mechanic
NO	Noblesse Oblige	Clan
NPC	Non-Player Character	Common video-game term
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
OCRS	One Crazy Random Summer	Ascension
OP	Original Post(er)	Common Internet slang (on forums)
PBS	Pygmy Bugbear Shaman	Familiars
PISSSED	Pull It, Smith, Smash, and Suck 'Er Down.	Ascension
PLD	Purple Light District	Adventuring areas
PM	Private Message (a.k.a. Blue Message) or Pastamancer	Chat or Classes
PotP	Path of the Plumber	Ascension
PSA	Public Sale Announcement	Chat - Games
PYEC	Platinum Yendorian Express Card	Items
RL	real life	Common Internet slang
RNG	Random Number Generator	Game mechanic (a common computer term)
RPG	role-playing game	Common video-game acronym
SBIP	sword behind inappropriate prepositions	Items
SC	Softcore or Seal Clubber	Ascension or 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 or Items/Events
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)	People
TPTMBG	The Powers That Might Be Giants (a bastardization of TPTB and TMBG)	People
TT	Turtle Tamer or Traveling Trader	Classes or NPC
WAF	Wizard Action Figure	Familiars
WoL	West of Loathing	Miscellaneous
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)	Game mechanic
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.