Common Acronyms

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Acronyms are commonly used by the Neopets community. An acronym is a series of letters that represents several a phrase, usually the first letters of the words or syllables in it. To a user unfamiliar with their usage, Neopian acronyms may seem confusing. The following is a list of some common acronyms, in alphabetical order for convenience.

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A

• AC - Avatar Chat, the NeoBoard where users engage in avatar-relating conversations.
• AFC - Air Faerie Crown, a popular Battledome Equipment.
• AI - Artificial Intelligence, referring to the way computer challengers, such as the 1-Player Challengers in the Battledome, play against a user based on specific patterns.
• AP - Attack Pea, a popular Battledome Equipment.
• ATM - Short for At the moment, usually referring to auctions or trades.

B

• BC - The Beauty Contest.
• BFC - Black Frost Cannon, a piece of Battledome Equipment.
• BN - Before Neopia, referring to times before recorded History of Neopia (or before Neopets began).
• BD - Battledome, where Neopets get to fight against other Neopets or Villains of Neopia. Can also mean Battle Duck, a type of Battledome Equipment.
• BD Chat - Battledome Chat, a Battledome-orientated NeoBoard.
• BGC - Bony Grarrl Club, a Battledome Equipment which gives users an avatar when equipped to their Grarrl.
• BoD - Bow of Destiny, a Battledome Equipment received as a prize from NeoQuest II.
• BoHD - Bag of Healing Dust, a Battledome Equipment.
• BoK - Bracelet of Kings, a Battledome Equipment from the Hidden Tower.
• BoLHS - Bag of Lenny Healing Seeds, a Battledome Equipment.
• BoMS - Bottle of Magic Sand, a Battledome Equipment.
• BRB - Chat speak for Be Right Back.
• BSS - Blumaroo SlingShot, a Battledome Equipment.
• BTM - Brain Tree Mace, a Battledome Equipment.
• BTY - Better Than You
• Bzzt - Bzzt Blaster, a Battledome Equipment.

C

• C-Blade - CarrotBlade, a Battledome Equipment found in the Hidden Tower.
• CATFB - Chomby and the Fungus Balls, referring to a band and a retired game.
• CB - CarrotBlade, a Battledome Equipment found in the Hidden Tower.
• CE - Cursed Elixir, a Battledome Equipment.
• CF - Chia Flour, a Battledome Equipment item found in the Hidden Tower. Also short for "Congratulations Feeders", in reference to the Kadoatery.
• CG - Cyodrake's Gaze, a plot from 2006.
• Coll - Short for Collateral.
• Collat - Short for Collateral.
• COM - The Curse of Maraqua plot, and sometimes its respective NeoBoard.
• CP - Caustic Potion, a Battledome Equipment received as a prize from Illusen's Glade.
• CS - Clawed Shield, a Battledome Equipment which can reward an Avatar.
• CSC - Cardboard Sprout Cannon, a Battledome Equipment found in the Hidden Tower.
• CSS - Cascading Style Sheets. An extension to HTML which can set default style attributes for a HTML tag (that has been defined in the doctype) or style attributes for a specific class or ID. Frequently used within Neopia to customise User Lookups and Shops.
• CWoS - Cloudy Wand of Storms, a Battledome Equipment.

D

• DBD - Dark Battle Duck, a weapon that used to do 10 icons damage in the Battledome, but following being downgraded is not as valued any more.
• DEB - Dual Expert Bow, a retired and expensive Magic Item.
• Def - Defence, a statistic of a Neopet that influences how well certain shields work.
• DMB - Dusty Magic Broom, a valued weapon sold at Haunted Weaponry
• DoN - Defenders of Neopia
• DPP - Downsize Power Plus, a single use Defense Magic item which protects a Neopet from all forms of damage.

E

• ECA - Everlasting Crystal Apple, which can be eaten countless times and not disappear from a users inventory.
• EKST - Enchanted Kiko Squeeze Toy, a multiple use defence item against all water damage in the Battledome.
• ELL - Entangling Lenny Lasso, a powerful weapon for Lennies to use in the Battledome.
• ENT - Evil Neopets Team, an acronym used often to refer to The Neopets Team when they're particularly unpleasant.
• EoE - Essence of Esophagor, a Battledome weapon which has large damage output at a cheap price.
• ETS - Easy to sell, referring to an item that can be turned into NP quickly, due to high demand.

F

• F-Ray - Fungus Ray, a powerful Battledome weapon which could be redeemed from a Rare Item Code.
• FaIB - Fire and Ice Blade, a Battledome weapon from the Hidden Tower which is similar the ones used by the Battle Faerie.
• FB - Florbix Blaster, a Battledome weapon which received fame when it was changed from a Jet Pack, making the otherwise useless item come in high demand.
• FC - Fan Club NeoBoard.
• FFQ - Fountain Faerie Quest, a rare Faerie Quest that can alter a Neopets colour to any available for it.
• FPot - Freezing Potion, a Battledome weapon sold at the Hidden Tower.
• FSS - Faerie SlingShot, a Battledome weapon which could be made from the Cooking Pot, now all but impossible now that the ingredients for making it are retired.
• FTP - First to post in a NeoBoard.

G

• G-Bomb - Ghostkerbomb, a popular once per battle weapon from the Hidden Tower.
• GBK - Golden Butter Knife, a retired weapon from the Hidden Tower.
• GC - Glowing Cauldron, a weapon from the Hidden Tower which can have strange affects in the Battledome.
• GEB - Garoo Elite Blaster, a weapon which care be acquired from Rare Item Codes from the TCG.
• GHS - Greater Healing Scroll, a healing item in the Battledome which is popular due to it's once per battle use.
• GLB - Grand Lightning Beam, an old yet powerful weapon from Neopets' early years.
• GoC - Golden Compass
• GSH - Green Sticky Hand
• G-Shield - Ghostkershield, a popular defense from the Hidden Tower.
• G-Staff - Greater Staff of the Earth Faerie
• G-Sword - Ghostkersword, a popular weapon from the Hidden Tower.
• GTA - Greater Tiki Amulet, a weapon in the Battledome acquired as a prize from Mystery Island Volcano. Can also refer to Grand Theft Auto, a popular series of video games.

H

• H4K - H4000 Helmet, popular retired Space Armour capable of freezing the opponent once per battle in the Battledome.
• HATIC - Hannah and the Ice Caves, referring to the plot, the game, and sometimes to its respective NeoBoard.
• HATPC - Hannah and the Pirate Caves
• HB - Haggle back, often used when haggling at the Trading Post.
• HC - The Help Chat of the NeoBoard.
• HoD - The Halo of Devilpuss, a weapon which can be rewarded in NeoQuest II.
• HoH - The Hall of Heroes, an important location in the Altador Plot
• HP - Hit points, the amount of total health you have. It is important in the Battledome. Can also refer to the Honey Potion, a weapon given out in Illusen's Glade.
• HPB - Hubrids Puzzle Box, a special Battledome Equipment item sold at the Hidden Tower which can be constructed in the form of Hubrid Nox.
• HPS - Hand Painted Scarab, a once popular weapon in the Battledome capable of damaging with three different elements.
• HT - The Hidden Tower, in Faerieland, that sells many rare and expensive relics.
• HTML - Hypertext Markup Language, the mark-up language in which all webpages are written.
• HTS - Hard to sell, referring to an item that cannot be turned into NP quickly, due to low demand, despite what it may be perceived as being worth due to rarity.

I

• IDB - In-Depth Battlepedia, a sub-site of PinkPT which is dedicated entirely to the Battledome. May also refer to Icy Battle Duck, a air and water based version of the Battle Duck.
• IDNQ - In-Depth NeoQuest, a sub-site of PinkPT dedicated entirely to the games NeoQuest and NeoQuest II.
• IEP - Illusens Earth Potion, a prize attainable from Illusen's Glade.
• ILB - Improved Lightning Beam, a popular Battledome weapon from Neopets' early years.
• ILS - Iron Lupe Sword, a popular Battledome weapon usable by Lupes.
• IQ - Intelligence Quotient, of which is stated that Adam Powell has an IQ of 174.

J

• JP - Jhudoras Potion, a prize attainable from Jhudora's Cloud.
• JCB - Jhudoras Crystal Ball, a prize attainable from Jhudora's Cloud.
• JSS - Jade Scorchstone, a popular retired Battledome Equipment from the Hidden Tower which heals fully once per battle.

K

• K - A symbol following a number, meaning thousand, from the SI prefix kilo-.
• KLP - Kacheek Life Potion, a popular Battledome weapon usable by Kacheeks.
• KPL - Kacheek Pebble Lobber, a popular Battledome weapon usable by Kacheeks.

L

• LDD - Lost Desert Dagger, popular weapon in the Battledome.
• LDP - The Lost Desert Plot, and sometimes its associated NeoBoard.
• LDPBSTSCC - The Trading Card Lost Desert Paint Brush Stamp T-Shirt Collectable Card.
• LEV - Leaded Elemental Vial, popular one per battle full heal item.
• LRGoF - Lenny Ray Gun of Freezing, popular freezing weapon used by Lennies in the Battledome.

M

• MFB - Mystery Fruit Bowl, a Battledome Equipment item rewarded in the Mystery Island Volcano Plot. It's believed only 200 were released.
• MoC - Mask of Coltzan, powerful dual attack and defense Battledome item used by King Coltzan III.
• MM - Melting Mirror, a once popular Battledome Equipment item rewarded from a scratchcard.
• MMoM - Magical Marbles of Mystery, a once per battle Battledome Equipment item from the Hidden Tower capable of freezing an opponent and giving slight damage.
• MP - Morphing Potion, or My Price for an item.
• MSP - Malevolent Sentient Plushie, a colour that only exists for Poogles which resembles the MSPP (see below).
• MSPP - Malevolent Sentient Poogle Plushie, a plushie that is shaped like a Poogle and is alive and evil. Refers specifically to the MSPP TCG Card.

N

• NF - Neofriends
• NM - NeoMail
• NP - Neopoints
• NQ - NeoQuest
• NQ1 - NeoQuest I
• NQ2 - NeoQuest II
• NQI - NeoQuest I
• NQII - NeoQuest II
• NST - Neopia Standard Time, the clock Neopia follows, and the time The Neopets Team follows in their work day.
• NT - Neopian Times

O

• OBO - Or best offer, used at the Trading Post.
• OTB - Offer to beat, used at the Trading Post.

P

• PB - Paint Brush
• PC - Plot Chat, referring to the currently active Plot NeoBoard.
• PHP - The recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, the programming language that makes Neopets possible.
• PPL - Petpet Protection League, a league on Neopets that rewards Neopets for taking good care of their Petpets.
• PPPB - Petpet Paint Brush.
• PPT - Pink Poogle Toy, or PinkPT. One of the oldest Neopets help sites to exist on the internet. Home of all that is weird and wonderful.
• PPTer - The term given to a person who has become a member of PinkPT and considers themselves a part of the PPT community.
• PS2 - The PlayStation 2. The Neopets: The Darkest Faerie video game was released on the PS2.
• PSP - The Playstation Portable.
• PTS - Points, in reference to the score users receive in the Games they play.

R

• R# - The rarity of an item, e.g. r99.
• RCG - Rainbow Clockwork Grundo, a popular bomb used in the Battledome
• RE - Random Event
• RPG - Role Playing Game. Neoquest and Neopets: The Darkest Faerie are both considered RPGs.
• RS - Restock, referring to the act of Neopet shops filling their stores, or the method users use for their own shops.
• RSing - Restocking, referring to Neopet shops fulling their stores, or a method users use for their own shops.

S

• SAP - Seasonal Attack Pea, a powerful weapon in the Battledome, and a variation of the typical Super Attack Pea with a Santa hat.
• SC - Scratchcard
• SDB - Safety Deposit Box
• SHH - Something Has Happened, a type of Random Event.
• SOS - Sword of Skardsen
• SS - Scorchstone, referring to a collection of weapons used in the Battledome.
• STP - Second to post on a Neoboard.
• Str - Strength, a statistic that determines how effective each icon of attack is for a Neopet in the Battledome.
• SuAP - Super Attack Pea

T

• TCG - Trading Card Game, in reference to the Neopets TCG.
• TDF - The Darkest Faerie, referring to the game or the character.
• TNT - The Neopets Team. This initialism, shared by the explosive Trinitrotoluene, inspired the TNT Avatar, which is used only by staff members. May also refer to The Neopian Times.
• TOW - The Tale of Woe plot, or sometimes its associated NeoBoard.
• TP - Trading Post, or Transmogrification Potion.
• Trans - Transmogrification Potion
• TYS - Test Your Strength, a game in the Haunted Woods.

U

• UB - Unbuyable, referring to an item which can't be bought through stores and only through the Trading Post due to its high price.
• UBoGJ - U-Bend of Great Justice, a Hidden Tower level water reflector that gained popularity with the release of Kelpbeards Trident.

W

• WC - Werelupe Claw, a powerful weapon of the Battledome, or World Challenge.
• WoE - Wheel of Excitement
• WoK - Wheel of Knowledge
• WoM - Wheel of Monotony, Wheel of Misfortune, or Wheel of Mediocrity

X

• XHTML - Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, the stricter, cleaner form of HTML.

Z

• ZDAP - Zafara Double Agent Plushie, used to obtain an avatar

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