Acronyms' Peaks! Representations Organic, Novel, Yare, Mirthful, Succinct!
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| 100% | PICARD | Person In Charge Aboard Roving Dreadnaught |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:Star Trek |
| 100% | PICCOLO | Principle Is Clear - Cover Over Little Openings |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Music:Instruments |
| 100% | PICHU | Pikachu Infant. Cries Horribly, Unpeacefully. |
Jeff Anonymous (Pichu, Pokemon #172, is a baby Pikachu.) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | PICKAX | Please Ignore Craggy Kaves. Awkay, Xplore! |
Jeff Anonymous, on what could be consdered a good tool for spelunkers. Sports & Recreation |
| 91% | PICKPOCKET | Person Into Clothing Kleptoing Prefers Operating in Crowds - Knows Easy Targets |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who proudly flashes his poetic license to justify the creation/use of 'Kleptoing.' People & Relationships:Law & Order:Criminals |
| 100% | PICNIC | Polite Intercourse Could Not Impede Copulation |
Rico Leffanta Entertainment:Movies |
| 100% | PICNIC (2) | Party In Countryside Necessitating Insect Condiments |
Rico Leffanta Science:Biology:Insects:Edible(?) |
| 80% | PICO | Personally I'm Confused [by] Others |
Jeff Anonymous, who can't quite understand EMACS, so he uses good ol' PICO for his Linux text editor. Computers:Linux |
| 100% | PICTURE | Pales In Comparison To Unadulterated Real Event |
Angela Brett Art & Literature |
| 100% | PICTURE (2) | Pretty In Color, Tints Usually Relinquish Eventually |
Jan Morgan Art & Literature |
| 100% | PIDGEY | Playing In Dirt Gets Eyes Yucky |
Angela Brett (Pidgey is Pokemon #16) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | PIECE | Partial Item - Especially Capturing Essence |
Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Nouns |
| 100% | PIECE OF CAKE! | Pie Investment Extravagant! Chefs Extraordinaire! Overpriced! Full/Fool Customer Adaptabily! Kitchens! Expedited! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Food & Drink |
| 100% | PIECE OF CAKE! (2) | Perfect Invention! Examine! Commandeer Executive Officers! Fully Computerise Assemblyline! Kindly Expedite! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Assorted Phrases |
| 100% | PIECE OF CAKE! (3) | Peace Invasion! Examine Computers! Execution Order: Fillers! Cakers! Assemble Kinder Elevators! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Bakery acquires another bakery and gives raises toall. Food & Drink Commerce |
| 100% | PIECE OF CAKE! (4) | Piece Intervention! Examine Computer Execution Of Following: Cake Assemblyline! Kindly Expedite! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Food & Drink Science:Electronics |
| 100% | PIG | Pork Is Good! |
Angela Brett Food & Drink Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | PIG (2) | Pretentious Idiot's Glory |
John Richard Jones People & Relationships:Insults |
| 100% | PIG LATIN | Phrasing Is Genuine Language, Adults Think It Nonsensical |
Onitay Ackoymay Radiogay Science:Linguistics |
| 100% | PIG LATIN (2) | Partially Intelligent Gibberish Leaves Adults Totally Ignorant, Normally |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Linguistics |
| 100% | PIG TAILS | Pretty If Girl's, They Aren't Ideal Lads' Style. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene |
| 100% | PIKACHU | Pokemon Is Keeping Animation Creators Happy & Unstarved! |
Angela Brett (Pikachu is Pokemon #25) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | PIKE | Pointed Implement Kills Enemies |
Sean Lamb (dictionary.com lists one definition as "A long spear formerly used by infantry.") Military:Weapons |
| 80% | PILL | Popularly It Licensed Love-making |
Tony McCoy O'Grady ('the pill' is widely credited with launching the "Swinging Sixties" and "free love") Drugs People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | PIMASTER | Particular Irrational's Memorised, A Superimportant Transcendental's Effortlessly Recited. |
Angela Brett Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | PIMASTER (2) | Pedantic Imbecile Masquerading As Scintillating Teacher Enlightening Riffraff. |
PiMaster Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | PIMASTER (3) | Pretty Intelligent Man, And Smart Too - Excuse Redundancy. |
Angela Brett Names:Acronymists |
| 100% | PIMP | Profits In Manipulating Prostitutes |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| 100% | PIMPLE | Please Ignore My Pained & Lumpy Epidermis |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene |
| 100% | PINCH | Patently Idiotic Non-Competent Healer |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:The Comedy Of Errors |
| 100% | PINCHING | Pain Is Now Caused, Help - It's Not Gentle |
TMcCO'G Assorted Verbs |
| 100% | PINCHY | Pennypinchy, I'd Name Crustacean! He's Yummy. |
Angela Brett (Pinchy was the lobster which Homer bought small and then raised into a fully-grown lobster in order to save money.) Entertainment:TV shows:The Simpsons |
| 100% | PINE | Puts Irritating Needles Everywhere |
TMcCO'G Science:Biology:Plants:Trees |
| 100% | PING | Probably Instigating No Good. |
Steve Keate, while wondering while people online were pinging him. Computers:Internet |
| 100% | PINK | Personally, I'm Not Kinky |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Adjectives:Colours |
| 100% | PINK (2) | Perfectly Irresistible Neckline/Newlywed/Negligee, Knockout |
Jan Morgan Assorted Adjectives:Colours Household Objects:Clothing |
| 100% | PINK BITS | Pain Is Nude Knockers Burnt In The Sunshine |
Angela Brett Science:Biology |
| 88% | PIONEER | Persecuted Individuals On New Environmental Expedition (for) Relief |
Jan Morgan - for relief from religious persecution or relief of better place to live and work People & Relationships |
| 100% | PIPPIN | Peering Into Palantir Produces Intense Nightmare |
Patricia Rix Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Lord of the Rings |
| 100% | PIRACY | Pernicious Individuals Rob And Cheat You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 75% | PIRATE | People's Individual Rights Association [for] Trading E-files |
Imaginary association formed to preserve rights of internet music file swappers. Computers Entertainment:Music |
| 100% | PISA | Precariously Inclined Structure, Alarmingly |
Eric Bridgstock Places:Towns & Cities |
| 100% | PISCES | Pseudo-Intelligent Science Commands Extra Scepticism |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion:Astrology |
| 86% | PISCES (2) | Personality Is Sympathetic, Causing Eventually Self-pity |
Jan Morgan Religion:Astrology |
| 100% | PISMO | PowerBook Is Superlative Mobile Office. |
Angela Brett, referring to the last PowerBook G3 model, code-named 'Pismo.' Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware Names:Code Names:Apple |
| 100% | PISSED | Peed In Side Street... Eww! Disgusting! |
Angela Brett Assorted Verbs |
| 100% | PISSED (2) | Priests In Seminaries Shouldn't Ever Drink |
Angela Brett Religion Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic |
| 100% | PISSED (3) | Perhaps I Shoulda Stopped Excessive Drinking! |
Patricia Rix Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic |
| 100% | PISSED (4) | Perhaps I Swilled Some Extra Diuretic |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Verbs |
| 100% | PISSENLIT | Peeing In Sleepwear Seems Extremely Nasty, Lessening Its Thermodynamics |
Patricia Rix (pissenlit is French for DANDELION... see DANDELION (2)) Food & Drink:Condiments:Herbs |
| 100% | PISS OFF | Peabrain, I Suggest Silence! Odious Fatuous Fool! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, still trying to annoy Angela Words & Wordplay:Rudeness |
| 100% | PISSOFF | Professional In Some Sort Of Financial Field |
John Richard Jones People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations:Humorous Job Titles |
| 100% | PISS OFF (2) | Party In-Store... Sale On Freaky Fashions! |
Angela Brett (see SHOVE OFF) Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans |
| 100% | PISTOL | Petty, Insolent, Small Time Oafish Lout |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's King Henry IV Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:King Henry IV |
| 86% | PISTOL (2) | Plot Involves Soldier's Trickery Over Love-letters |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| 100% | PITCHFORK | Please Insert Tines Carefully Hay Fever Often Reveals Kissers |
Rico Leffanta Assorted Nouns |
| 100% | PITH | Particularly Interesting Tropical Helmet |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Household Objects:Clothing |
| 100% | PITH (2) | Peel's Interior Tastes Horrible |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Food & Drink |
| 100% | PI TIMES THREE I | Perchance If Thou Inexplicably Mutters Expandable Shoutings, Thou Hasto Really Expand 'Em Immediately! |
Jeff Anonymous ('Immediately' suggested by Tony McCoy O'Grady) rationalizing semi-imaginary rule pi*3i, which states that all things rendered in capitals on the Acronyms fora must be acronymised. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| 100% | PI TIMES THREE I (2) | People Ignoring To Immediately Make Expansions Should Try Harder - Rendering Expansions Educates Individuals. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see PI TIMES THREE I) Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| 100% | PITSLIGO | People In Tube Straphang - 'Look, I'm Gently Oozing!' |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Pitsligo is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'Part of traditional mating rite. During the first hot day of spring, all the men in the tube start giving up their seats to ladies and staphanging. The purpose of pitsligo is for them to demonstrate their manhood by displaying the wet patches under their arms.') Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| 100% | PIZZA | Palatable In Zesty Zeal Appetizing |
Jan Morgan Food & Drink |
| 100% | PIZZA FACE | Primo In Zit-Zapping... Acnekleen Foams And Cleanses Epidermis. |
Angela Brett (see SHOVE OFF) Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans |
| 100% | PLACARD | Pagan Libidos Are Cocked And Readily Discharged |
Rico Leffanta, who explains that placards are public labels; just as black men are placarded as having oversized organs, pagans are placarded as having overactive libidos. People & Relationships |
| 100% | PLACARDS | Public Labels Announce Community's Assumptions, Rapidly Diffusing Stereotypes. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| 100% | PLACE | Position Located And Correctly Established |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places |
| 100% | PLAGUE | People Lying About Grotesquely... Uncountable Expiries. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 78% | PLAGUES | Pass-over Loyal's Abodes... Goatsblood Used to Exempt Sons. |
Angela Brett, who isn't sure if she remembers correctly... but didn't God tell the Israelitees to put goatsblood somewhere outside their houses so their firstborn sons wouldn't be killed? Religion |
| 100% | PLAID CYMRU | Parliamentary Leaders Allowed Inside Daily Commissioning Your Mothers Requests Upstairs |
John Richard Jones Politics:Parties |
| 90% | PLAINTALK | PCs Lack Any Inexpensive Natural Talking Applications Low in Kilobytes. |
Angela Brett, after hearing her information systems lecturer (a windoze user) comment on the expensiveness of speech recognition software. (Plaintalk is the free speech recognition software from Apple, at http://speech.apple.com/ptk) Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software |
| 100% | PLAIT | Part Lock Approximately Into Thirds |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene |
| 100% | PLAN | Prepare, Launch, And Notarize |
Patricia Rix Assorted Verbs |
| 100% | PLANETARY ALIGNMENT | Pulling Language Across Network Employs Tidal Astroillogical Reinforcements... Your-Anus Lies In Gemini? Nothing Moves Electronically, No Traffic. |
Angela Brett (Planetary alignment is a more likely cause of the Apronyms site loading slowly than it sounds... the server which the site is hosted on is called Uranus, and is often the 'butt' of 'Your-Anus' jokes.) Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website:Excuses for Slow Loading |
| 100% | PLANETS | Probably Lifeless Aggregations Now Encircling The Sun |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Astronomy:Planets |
| 100% | PLANETS (2) | Perceptually Lazy At Nighttime Exclaim They're Stars |
Angela Brett Science:Astronomy:Planets |
| 100% | PLANTARS WART | Painful Lesion Attacks Nascent Terrible Arch Region, Sponsors Worry As Reason, Tension |
Jan Morgan Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | PLASMA | Pyrolysis Looms As Spacecraft Meets Atmosphere |
Angela Brett, who hopes that the term 'pyrolysis' can apply to the separation of atoms into ions and electrons in plasma. Science:Astronomy Science:Physics |
| 100% | PLATINUM | Pricey Ladies' Adornment. Typically Inert, Not Usually Magnetic. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| 100% | PLATO | Perhaps Letters Are Totally Opinion |
Angela Brett, since the letters from which most of our knowledge of Plato come might not actually have been written by Plato, as is claimed. Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | PLAY | Pointing Love At Yourself |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 90% | PLAY CARDS | Perennially Likeable - And Your Computer Allows Replaying a Deal Sometimes. |
Angela Brett, who would (WARNING, plug coming up) like to point out that her card game, Once in a Lifetime (at http://acronyms.co.nz/software/OIAL.html), does allow replaying of deals. Entertainment:Games |
| 86% | PLAYER | Person Limbers-up And, Yes, Endures Recreation |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Sports & Recreation |
| 92% | PLAYING CARDS | Poor Loser Are You? It's No Good Cheating As Revolting Deceitfulness is Sinful |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Games |
| 92% | PLAYSTATION | Pathetic "Life"-less Adults - You Spend Time At This Idiotic Oriental Nonsense |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Games |
| 100% | PLEA BARGAINS | Protagonist's Lawyer Expects A Bad Answer, Reasons Guilty Announcement Induces Nicer Sentence |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 86% | P-L-E-A-S-E | Perhaps Liz (will) Email Anthony, Screen Enumerators |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after Angela's sister Liz did not answer him when he asked how large her screen is. Assorted Phrases |
| 100% | PLEASED | Pretty Limpid Eyes And Smiles Express Delight |
LaughingBoy McCoy People & Relationships:Emotions |
| 100% | PLEELEY | Pickled Lush's Elaborately Endeavours Looking Endearing - Yuk! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (Pleeley is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'Descriptive of a drunk person's attempt to be endearing.') Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| 100% | PLETHORA | Pretty Ladies Eating Their Hearts Out Reconnoitring Abbeys |
Rico Leffanta Assorted Nouns |
| 100% | PLIERS | Perhaps Lying In Elecrician's Rumpled Satchel. |
TMcCO'G who has noticed that Plumbers usually carry a sturdy toolbox, but Electricians often use an old leather carryall. Household Objects |
| 100% | PLIERS (2) | Possibly Lost Items Easily Retrieved... Sometimes |
Roger Williams Household Objects |
| 100% | PLONK | Purchaser's Likely Of No Knowledge |
Angela Brett Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic |
| 100% | PLONK (2) | Perfectly Literal Onomatopoeia, Near Kerplunk |
Angela Brett Assorted Nouns:Noises |
| 100% | PLOW | Patrolboat Lurches Over Waves |
TMcCO'G Transport |
| 100% | PLOW (2) | Pull! Lusty Oxen Will. |
Roger Williams Assorted Verbs |
| 100% | PLUG | Push Lightly Until Grounded |
Matthew Oram Household Objects |
| 100% | PLUME | Peahen Looks Upon Mate's Exhibit |
Angela Brett Science:Biology |
| 100% | PLUME (2) | Pen Lacking Usual Metallic Element |
Patricia Rix Communication |
| 100% | PLURAL | Painfully Loud Ululating, Repeated A Lot! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, explaining that the 'Aaaaaarrrrggghh' in his ANTHRAX (2) is the plural of 'Aarrghh', an official Scrabble word. Words & Wordplay Assorted Nouns:Noises |
| 100% | PLUS | Positively Lonely Unary's Superfluous |
Angela Brett, as it is not usually necessary to indicate that a number is positive with a plus sign. Science:Mathematics |
| 100% | PLUTO | Planetary Location Universally Thought Outermost |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Astronomy:Planets |
| 82% | PLUTONIUM | Popularly Linked (with) Uranium To Operate Nuclear Industry's Unleashing of Megatons. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| 100% | PLYMOUTH | Pilgrims Left Your Moorings - Opposed Unto The Heirarchy |
Tony McCoy O'Grady History Places:Towns & Cities:USA |
| 60% | PMS | Putting up with Mens Shit |
wishes, referring to Pre-Menstrual Syndrome Re-expansions of existing acronyms Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | PMS (2) | Pardon My Snippiness |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to PMS Re-expansions of existing acronyms Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | PMS (3) | Pleasantness's Mighty Scarce |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to PMS Re-expansions of existing acronyms Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 75% | PMS (4) | Pregnancy May Stop it |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to PMS Re-expansions of existing acronyms Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | PMS (5) | Pugnaciousness's My Speciality |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to PMS Re-expansions of existing acronyms Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | PMS (6) | Pretty Mean Sir! |
wishes, in response to Tony's PMS (2) and others. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| 100% | POEM | Piece Of Enlightening Material |
Angela Brett Art & Literature |
| 100% | POET | Pretentious, Or Extremely Talented? |
Angela Brett Art & Literature:Writers |
| 100% | POETS | Pinnacles Of Eloquence, They Say |
Angela Brett Art & Literature:Writers |
| 100% | POINT OF VIEW | Personal Opinion Is Not The Only Form... Vectors In Electronic Worlds. |
Angela Brett (many 3D computer games allow changing your point of view.) Computers:Games |
| 100% | POISON | Potion Once Ingested Surely Occasions Necrosis |
Roger Williams Drugs Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | POKE BALL | Point Of Knockout Evaded By A Little Luck |
Angela Brett (to capture a wild pokemon in a poke ball, you must weaken it but not enough to make it faint.) Computers:Games |
| 88% | POKEMON | Professor Oak Knows Everything Masters Ought to Need |
Angela Brett, who is thinking of acronymising all 151 pokemon Computers:Games |
| 100% | POKEMON (2) | Pricey, Omnipresent Kiddies Entertainment, Marketing Of Nintendo |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Games |
| 100% | POKEMON (3) | Parents Of Kiddies Express Misery Over Nintendo |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Games |
| 100% | POKEMON (4) | Plenty Of Kiddies Expend Money, Often, Needlessly. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Games |
| 100% | POKEMON (5) | Picks On Kids, Eventually Makes One Numb/Nervous |
Jan Morgan Computers:Games |
| 100% | POKEMON (6) | Picks On Kids, Eventually Makes One Nostalgic |
Jan Morgan -- Memories of our own childhood? Computers:Games |
| 100% | POKEMON (7) | Pastime Of Kids, Emerges Matches Of Nonsense |
Jan Morgan Computers:Games |
| 100% | POKEMON (8) | Pray Our Kids Expect More Of Nintendo/Networks! |
original, inspired by existing Pokemon apronyms Computers:Games |
| 100% | POKEMONS | Perhaps Our Kids Expend Money On Needless Sh*t |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Games |
| 100% | POKENYMS | Pokemon Original Kreations. Even Nicer, You Might Say. |
Jeff Anonymous, because some Pokemon acronyms might be more interesting than actual Pokemon. Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Computers:Games |
| 100% | POLAND | Place Of Lech's Arising - Now Democratic |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 100% | POLAR | Position's Obvious... Length, Angle Required. |
Angela Brett, referring to polar coordinates. Science:Mathematics |
| 100% | POLE STAR | People Oriented Looking Ever Skyward. The Astrolabe Resulted |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Astronomy |
| 100% | POLICE | Patrolling Our Lives In Circus Environment |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| 100% | POLICE (2) | Persecution Officers Like Intimidating Citizens Excessively |
Steve Keate People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| 100% | POLICE (3) | Pursuit Of Lowlifes Into Criminal Endeavours |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| 100% | POLICE (4) | Pigs On Lookout In Cars Everywhere |
Steve Keate People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| 100% | POLICE (5) | Protectors Of Law In Continuous Endeavour |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| 100% | POLICE (6) | Patrol Old Ladies Inspecting Casual Escorts |
Rico Leffanta People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| 100% | POLICE (7) | People Organising Litigation Incarcerating Criminals Everywhere |
Mary Carr People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| 100% | POLICE PROTECTION | Probity Of Lieutenants Is Central, Ensuring Public Resources Operate To End Criminal Threats .... Intimidation's Outlawed Now |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Law & Order |
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