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.

• AC: Avatar Chat, the NeoBoard where users engage in avatar-relating conversations.
• 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.
• BC: The Beauty Contest.
• 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.
• BDC: Battledome Chat, a Battledome-orientated NeoBoard
• BRB: Chat speak for be right back.
• BTY: Better Than You.
• CATFB: Chomby and the Fungus Balls, referring to a band and a retired game.
• COM: The Curse of Maraqua plot, and sometimes its respective NeoBoard.
• 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.
• 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.
• Def: Defence, a statistic of a Neopet that influences how well certain shields work.
• DoN: Defenders of Neopia
• ENT: Evil Neopets Team, an acronym used often to refer to The Neopets Team when they're particularly unpleasant.
• ETS: Easy to sell, referring to an item that can be turned into NP quickly, due to 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.
• FTP: First to post in a NeoBoard.
• HATIC: Hannah and the Ice Caves, referring to the plot, the game, and sometimes to its respective NeoBoard.
• HATPC: Hannah and the Pirate Caves.
• HC: The Help Chat of the NeoBoard.
• HH: H4000 Helmet, a very valued weapon in the Battledome.
• 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.
• 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.
• IDB: In-Depth Battlepedia, a sub-site of PinkPT which is dedicated entirely to the Battledome.
• IDNQ: In-Depth NeoQuest, a sub-site of PinkPT dedicated entirely to the games NeoQuest and NeoQuest II.
• K: A symbol following a number, meaning thousand, from the SI prefix kilo-.
• IQ: Intelligence Quotient. Adam Powell has an IQ of 174.
• LDP: The Lost Desert Plot, and sometimes its associated NeoBoard.
• LDPBSTSCC: The Trading Card Lost Desert Paint Brush Stamp T-Shirt Collectable Card.
• MP: Morphing Potion, or My Price for an item.
• MSP: Malevolent Sentient Plushie, a Paintbrush colour that only exists for Poogles.
• MSPP: Malevolent Sentient Poogle Plushie, a Poogle painted [[Malevolent Sentient Plushie.
• 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.
• 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#: The rarity of an item, e.g. r99.
• 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.
• SAP: Seasonal Attack Pea, a powerful weapon in the Battledome.
• 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.
• 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.
• UB: Unbuyable, referring to an item which can't be bought through stores and only through the Trading Post due to its high price.
• 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
• XHTML: Extensive Hypertext Markup Language, the stricter, cleaner form of HTML.

External Links

• SunnyNeo Abbreviations List