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!
Contents: Top - 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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.
- Def: Defence, a statistic of a Neopet that influences how well certain shields work.
- DoN: Defenders of Neopia
E
- 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.
F
- 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.
H
- 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.
I
- 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
I
- IQ: Intelligence Quotient. Adam Powell has an IQ of 174.
L
- LDP: The Lost Desert Plot, and sometimes its associated NeoBoard.
- LDPBSTSCC: The Trading Card Lost Desert Paint Brush Stamp T-Shirt Collectable Card.
M
- 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.
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.
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.
- 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.
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
External links
- Selected Fansites: SunnyNeo - Abbreviations