- A
backronym is an
acronym formed from an
already existing word by
expanding its
letters into the
words of a phrase.
Backronyms may be
invented with either...
- A boma is a
livestock enclosure,
community enclosure, stockade, corral,
small fort or a
district government office,
commonly used in many
parts of the...
-
younger Italian male
immigrants arriving in America. One
false etymology or
backronym of **** is that it is an
acronym for "without p****port" or "without papers"...
-
scope and
applicability of
these new standards. A
colloquial aviation backronym is "Engines Turn Or P****engers Swim",
referring to the
inevitable emergency...
-
TWISTEX (a
backronym for
Tactical Weather-Instrumented
Sampling in/near
Tornadoes Experiment) was a
tornado research experiment that was
founded and led...
- The CDTV (from
Commodore Dynamic Total Vision,
later treated as a
backronym for
Compact Disc Television) is a home
multimedia entertainment and video...
-
newborns can
receive a
score from 0 to 2. The list of
criteria is a
backronym of Apgar's surname.
Various members of the
healthcare team, including...
-
American hip hop
group from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City. The
backronym M.A.F.I.A.
stands for
Masters At
Finding Intelligent Attitudes. They were...
- The R.550
Magic (
backronym for
Missile Auto-Guidé
Interception et Combat) is a short-range air-to-air
missile designed in 1965 by
French company Matra...
- this is
unlikely and a
false etymology that is
probably an
example of a
backronym.
Several Internet memes have
caused the
widespread adoption of the term...
