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, where users speak about how to obtain or show off avatars.
• AI: Artificial Intelligence. 1-Player Challengers run on set AI patterns.
• BC: 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
• BRB: Chat speak for "be right back".
• BTY: Better Than You
• CATFB: Chomby and the Fungus Balls
• COM: Curse of Maraqua
• 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 to customize User Lookups and Shops.
• DBD: Dark Battle Duck. A weapon that used to do 10 icons damage in the Battledome, and isn't as valued anymore.
• Def: Defense, a stat category of a Neopet.
• DoN: Defenders of Neopia
• ENT: Evil Neopets Team. An acryonym used often to refer to The Neopets Team when they're particularly unpleasant.
• ETS: Easy to sell item.
• FC: Fan Club Neoboard.
• FFQ: Fountain Faerie Quest
• FTP: First to post in a Neoboard.
• HATIC: Hannah and the Ice Caves
• HATPC: Hannah and the Pirate Caves
• HC: Help Chat of the Neoboard.
• HH: H4000 Helmet. A very valued weapon in the Battledome.
• HoH: Hall of Heroes. Important place in the Altador Plot
• HP: Hit points, the amount of total health you have. Important in the Battledome.
• HT: Hidden Tower
• HTML: Hypertext Markup Language. The mark-up language which all webpages are written in.
• HTS: Hard to sell item
• IDB: In-Depth Battlepedia. Sub-site of PinkPT which is dedicated entirely to the Battledome.
• IDNQ: In-Depth NeoQuest. Sub-site of PinkPT dedicated entirely to the games NeoQuest and NeoQuest II.
• K: The symbol following a number, meaning thousand.
• IQ: Intelligence Quotient. Adam Powell has an IQ of 174.
• LDP: Lost Desert Plot
• 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
• 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
• PHP: The programming language that makes Neopets possible.(recursive acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor")
• PPL: Petpet Protection League. A group of Neopians who reward 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: Playstation 2. The Neopets: The Darkest Faerie video was released on the PS2.
• PSP: Playstation Portable.
• PTS: Points, in reference to the score users receive in the Games they play.
• R#: The Item Rarity of an item (example: r99)
• RE: Random Event
• RPG: Role Playing Game. Neoquest and Neopets: The Darkest Faerie are both considered RPGs.
• RS: Restocking, refering to Neopet shops fulling their stores, or a method users use for their own shops.
• RSing: Another way of saying restocking.
• SAP: Seasonal Attack Pea, a powerful weapon of 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 in a Neoboard.
• Str: Strength, a stat category of a Neopet.
• SuAP: Super Attack Pea
• TCG: Trading Card Game, in reference to the Neopets TCG.
• TDF: The Darkest Faerie
• TNT: The Neopets Team. Inspired the TNT Avatar, which is used only by them. Also refers to the Neopian Times.
• TP: Trading Post or Transmogrification Potion
• Trans: Transmogrification Potion
• TYS: Test Your Strength
• UB: Unbuyable, refering to an item which can't be bought through stores and only through the Trading Post.
• 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