Apt Phrases, Redolent Of Novel Yet Meaningful Sense
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| 100% | LA | Littlest Aria |
Angela Brett Entertainment:Music |
| 100% | LAAGER | Large And Ample Group Encompassing Ring |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Nouns |
| 100% | LAAGER (2) | Lazy Alcoholic's Articulation, Groaning Epithesis Represented? |
Angela Brett Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic |
| 100% | LAB | Looks At Biology |
Jan Morgan Science:Biology Places:Buildings |
| 100% | LABAN | Loses At Beheading, Absolves Nephi |
Jan Morgan -- Book of Mormon Evil relative lost his head for not turning over the plates of brass Names:Book of Mormon Characters |
| 100% | LABORATORY | Located At Bench, Our Researcher Attempts Trials Of Radioactive Yields |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science Places:Buildings |
| 100% | LABOUR | Lacking Authority Because Of Useless Reforms |
John Richard Jones. Fed up with Labour's incompetence. Politics:Parties |
| 100% | LABOUR (2) | Layabouts Are Betraying Our Unique Reputation |
John Richard Jones Politics:Parties |
| 100% | LACE | Lovers Are Copulating Excessively |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the lace (13th) wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| 100% | LACE (2) | Looping Adorned Cotton, Elegantly |
Jan Morgan Household Objects:Threads & Fabric |
| 100% | LADAWN | Lazy Adult Doesn't Act With Nobility |
Jan Morgan - someone I know Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | LADDER | Lying Against Dormer Denotes Elopement? Rather! |
Patricia Rix People & Relationships:Love & Lust Household Objects |
| 100% | LADIES | Leaving A Dump Is Extremely Satisfying |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Buildings:The 'Little Room' |
| 100% | LADIES (2) | Like A Doorway Into Effluent Stinkiness |
Patricia Rix Places:Buildings:The 'Little Room' |
| 100% | LADY DIANA | Lunatic Assaults Darling Yin Died In Accident, Numerically Adored |
Jan Morgan Politics:Royalty:Royals |
| 100% | LADY DRIVER | Laughing At Danger You Drive Recklessly In Vehicle - Eschewing Reversing! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Genderalisations Transport:Drivers |
| 100% | LADY MACBETH | Like A Demented Yuppie, Manipulative And Controlling, Becomes Encourager To Husband |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Macbeth Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Macbeth |
| 100% | LADY OF THE LAKE | Lived At Depth, Yearned Once & Finally To Have Excalibur, Long And Keen Edged |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature:Myths & Legends:Arthurian Legend |
| 100% | LAERTES | Launches Attack, Exacting Revenge To Exonerate Sister |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark |
| 100% | LAFEU | Lord Attempting 'Friend's' Exposure, Unavailingly |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well Places:Countries |
| 100% | LAGER | Lads Agree, Great Exhilarating Refreshment |
Tony Moore Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic |
| 100% | LAMAN | Lackluster Associate Mainly Argued, Nephi |
Jan Morgan -- Book of Mormon Character -- mean sibling Names:Book of Mormon Characters |
| 100% | LAMANITE | Lawless Associates Mainly Argued Nephites In Truths Eternal |
Jan Morgan Names:Book of Mormon Characters |
| 100% | LAMB | Little Animal Might Baa |
Angela Brett, who saw lots of lambs on her bus trips from Auckland to Palmerston North and back. Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | LAMB (2) | Little And Moving Blissfully |
Niki Widdowson Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | LAMBORGHINI | Lovely Automobile May Bring Owner Racing Glory / Honours - It's Natively Italian |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Transport:Car Makes & Models |
| 100% | LAMBS | Littlies Adore Most Baby Sheep |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals |
| 100% | LAMENTATIONS | Lines Acrostically Made Expressing National Tragedy. A Temple Is Overthrown, Nation Sundered. |
Sue Johnson Religion:Bible books |
| 100% | LAMP | Luminous Apple Macintosh Phosphors |
Angela Brett, after she was given a 512k Mac whose disk drive wasn't connected, so all it does is show the disk icon with a flashing question mark - Steve suggested it could be used as a lamp. Computers:Macintosh & Newton |
| 100% | LAMP (2) | Lost At Midnight? Press. |
Steve Keate Household Objects |
| 100% | LAMP (3) | Light Atop Manmade Pole |
Jan Morgan Household Objects |
| 100% | LAMPOONS | Laughing At Mankind's Pretences Over Other Newsworthy Stories |
Rico Leffanta Art & Literature |
| 100% | LANCASTER | Loyal And Now Controlling Army Strategy To Extirpate Rebels |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's King Henry IV Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:King Henry IV |
| 100% | LANCE | Long And Narrow, Charge Enemies |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Military:Weapons |
| 93% | LANCELOT DU LAC | Like A Nasty Courtier, Enticed Lady Off Throne - Death Unleashed Loss of Arthurian Chivalry |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature:Myths & Legends:Arthurian Legend |
| 89% | LANGUAGE | Linguists Assay New Generalisations of Utterances And Graphical Expression. |
Angela Brett Science:Linguistics |
| 82% | LANTHANUM | Lanthanides Are Named (from) This. Happens Among Nature in Uncommon Minerals. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| 100% | LAOS | Large Areas Of Sierra. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 100% | LAP DANCE | Leggy & Attractive (Poorly Dressed) Arousing Naughty Chaps Excitement |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| 100% | LAPRAS | Lugs A Passenger Relentlessly Around Sea |
Angela Brett (Lapras is Pokemon #131) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| 100% | LAPTOP | Laughingly, Apple's P1 Totally Outperforms P2 |
Angela Brett, referring to Apple's yet-to-be released consumer portable (codenamed p1) which will surely be a G3 and therefore faster than a Pentium 2. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | LAPTOP (2) | Little Appliance - 'Puter - That's Obviously Portable |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Generic Hardware |
| 100% | LAPTOP (3) | Luckiest Are People That Operate PowerBooks |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 100% | LAPTOP (4) | Linux And Portables - There's Often Problems. |
Angela Brett (I know a few people who've had Linux laptops and they seem to have problems with the power management.) Computers:Linux |
| 100% | LARA CROFT | Lucozade Advertisement Recruits Adventurous Character, Release Of Film's Timely. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Computers:Games:Game Characters |
| 100% | LARDWARE | Left Alone, Rebelling Dieters Will Absorb Recyclable Electronics. |
Angela Brett, thinking that if computer parts really were edible, they might be called lardware. Computers:Do Not Eat |
| 100% | LARGE | Lengthier And Relatively Greater, Evidently |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Adjectives |
| 100% | LARGE HADRON COLLIDER | Leptons Aren't Really Good Enough, Hadronic Action Duly Reveals Our Notions Correct (Or Lacking) Looking Into Denser Energy Realms |
Angela Brett -- the Large Hadron Collider is the replacement for the LEP (Large Electron Positron collider) at CERN. It will be turned on in 2007 and, by colliding hadrons rather than the lighter LEPTONS, should reveal how particles react at higher energies. Science:Physics |
| 100% | LARRY | Lazy And Rather Rebellious Youth |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:First names:Male |
| 100% | LARYNGITIS | Lacking A Roundy Yoke Necessitates Gaps In Transmission - I'm Silenced. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after a teasing gap in a message. Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 100% | LASAGNE | Luscious And Saucy, And Good Nutritious Eating |
Chef, South Park High School Food & Drink |
| 100% | LASAGNE (2) | Like Anything, Seldom Any Garfield's Not Eaten. |
Angela Brett (Lasagne is the cartoon cat Garfield's favourite food.) Food & Drink Art & Literature:Fictional Characters |
| 83% | LASER | Light-emitting Artefact Sometimes Employs Rubies |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Re-expansions of existing acronyms Science:Physics |
| 100% | LAST MESSAGE | Latest Acronym Seems To Make Everyone Suggest Some Alternative, Good, Expansion |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| 100% | LAST MESSAGE (2) | Lately Angela's Slow To Make Expansions, Since She's A Good Employee. |
Angela Brett Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| 100% | LAS VEGAS | Losers Away Squandering Valuables, Expecting Gold; Always Screwed. |
Sporkmaster Places:Towns & Cities:USA |
| 100% | LATE! | Laughing At Their Expense |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Laughter |
| 100% | LATE BREAKING NEWS | Look At This Emerging Bulletin Relating Events And Keeping Interesting Narration Going - National Events, Worldwide Stories |
TMcCO'G Communication |
| 100% | LATE EXTRA | Late Appearance: Tony's Evidently Erroneous - Xenon Triggered Researcher's Alertness |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, suggesting a title for THE ACRONYM TIMES issue which was delayed because, among other things, Angela wanted to put a 'tour' of chemical element acronyms on the website and realised that XENON was missing. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| 100% | LATER | Last Alligator To Exit, Repeats |
Patricia Rix (I was thinking of "see you later, alligator", though why the last alligator would say this to an empty room escapes me) Time Communication:Hello & Goodbye |
| 100% | LATER GATOR | Like "Adieu' Though Expressing Return - Greatly Abridge Trendy Old Repartee |
TMcCO'G - referring to the song line "See you later alligator, after 'while Crocodile" Communication:Hello & Goodbye |
| 94% | LATE TRAIN SERVICE | Left After The Evening Train Rolled Along, In Near-empty Station, Expecting Returning Vehicle Into City - Evfentually |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Transport |
| 100% | LATIN | Language A Touch Intricate Nowadays. |
Tony -- English is becoming so sloppy that grammar is disintegrating, even though it was never as complex as Latin. Learning Latin must be really difficult now. Science:Linguistics |
| 100% | LATIN SCHOLAR | Latina Antiqua, Tempore Interfectam, Nunc Supervivet Capitibis Hominum. Olim Lingua Amata Romanorum |
Robert Anonymous - Translation: Ancient latin, killed by time, now survives with the heads of men. Once the beloved language of the Romans. Science:Linguistics Education |
| 100% | LATITUDE & LONGITUDE | Lost? Attend To Indicators That Uniquely Distinguish Every Location. One Needs Geometry, International Time & Utilise Decent Ephemeris |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places |
| 100% | LATTER DAY SAINTS | Living A Truly Teachable Existence Religiously, Do All Your Service At Instant Notice To Saints |
Jan Morgan - Part of the formal name of mormons complete formal name is the Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints (Instantly coming to ones aid ensures happiness) Religion |
| 100% | LATVIA | Let's Appreiciate That Valuable Ideal, Autonomy. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 100% | LAUGH | Laughter Acronyms Usually Generate Happiness/Hysteria. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Laughter |
| 100% | LAUGHING MY ASS OFF | Launching An Unprecedented Guffaw... Help! I've No Gluteus Maximus! Yes, A Sure Sign Of Fatuous Fun |
Angela Brett Laughter |
| 100% | LAUGHING OUT LOUD | Little Acronym's Unknownness Gave Happy Irishman Nonplussed. Got Opportunity Ultimately To Learn Of Unique Definition |
Tony McCoy O'Grady pays homage to what started the apronyms project. It all began when Angela Brett wrote 'LOL' in response to some witticism he had written. Tony, being new to the web, had never come across this before and asked for illumination. From this sprung an unending flow of (occasionally?) funny items. Laughter |
| 100% | LAUGHTER | Launched An Unexpected Guffaw Hearing This. Encore Requested |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Laughter |
| 88% | LAUNDRY | Linen Articles Uncreased, Non-Dirty, Returned (to) You |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Household Objects:Clothing |
| 100% | LAURA | Lemurs Around Ugly Rat Assets |
Michael Seiler. I came up with it because there aren't enough suitable nonsense phrases that can expand off my girlfriend's (or my best friend's girlfriend...lotta Lauras, eh?) name. (Note: Unless Michael doesn't much like his girlfriend, this is not strictly an apronym. It has only been included to explain MICHAEL SEILER. See also LAURA (2) and LAURA (3)) Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | LAURA (2) | Line An Unpolished Rough Amethyst |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | LAURA (3) | Lovely, And Untarnished, Radiant Angel |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:First names:Female |
| 100% | LAUREN | Looked Astounding, Utterly Ravishing Even Now |
Tony McCoy O'Bogart, referring to Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart's wife and frequent co-star Names:First names:Female Names:Famous people:Actors & Actresses |
| 100% | LAVACHE | Lemonish - Although Valued Amongst Characters He Encounters |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:All's Well That Ends Well |
| 100% | LAVA LAMP | Like A Volcano, A Light Activates Moving Patterns |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Household Objects |
| 100% | LAVA LAMP (2) | Lacking Any Volcanic Activity, Light Affords Many Possibilities |
Melanie Merswolke Household Objects |
| 100% | LAVATORY | Lacking Any Ventilation Attacks The Olfactory Receptors, Yes? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Buildings:The 'Little Room' |
| 100% | LAVINIA | Living, After Violent Incident, Names Indecent Assailants |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to the character in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus Art & Literature:Shakespearean Plays:Titus Andronicus |
| 100% | LAW | Levelled Against Wrongdoing |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 100% | L.A. WEIGHT LOSS CENTER | Losing Advantage With Excess Inches, Getting Healthy Tips, Life's Own Succeeding Solution, Carefully Examines Necessary Transformed Eating Regime |
Jan Morgan - a Place that promotes eating healthily and losing weight Food & Drink |
| 100% | LAWFUL CONDUCT | Love And War: Fair Until Lawyers Come, Openly Nicking Dollars Using Clever Tricks |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 83% | LAWRENCIUM | Like A Whole Range of Elements - Non-natural. Created In University Machines. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| 100% | LAWSUIT | Legal Actions Will Sometimes Use Intricate Terminology |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 100% | LAWYER | Loopholes And Wrangles - You Escape Retribution |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after Eric's colleagues looked for a LAWYER to go with DOCTOR. People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| 100% | LAWYER (2) | Lopes Away With Your Expensive Retainer |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| 100% | LAWYER (3) | Lying Attorneys Win You Extra Rewards. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| 100% | LAWYER (4) | Legal Assistants Waste Your Earned Remuneration |
Eric Bridgstock People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| 86% | LAWYER (5) | Lies And Wriggles, You End-up Robbed |
Mike Redmond People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| 100% | LAWYERS | Lies And Wanky Yarns Essential. Requires Slyness |
Edwin Hermann People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| 100% | LAWYERS (2) | Litigation About Winning You Election... Recounts Significant. |
Angela Brett, after the USA elections in 2000. Politics People & Relationships:Law & Order:Occupations |
| 100% | LAXATIVE | Lately A Xerantic Ass Tamed, I'll Vouchsafe Epsom! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Drugs |
| 89% | LAZINESS | Lacking Any Zeal, Idly Napping or Entering Sleepy State. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 100% | LAZINESS (2) | Like All Zombies, I Nightly Enter Sleepy Stupor |
Tony McCoy O'Grady People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| 80% | LAZY HATS | Lovely And Zany - Your Headgear is Always Tacky and Shoddy. |
Angela Brett, when Tony mentioned he was wearing his 'lazy bastard' hat. When asked to describe it, he replied, "It was a beautiful hat when I came across it, but after years of neglect (due to laziness) it is probably a real mess by now, I don't know. When I'm wearing it, I'm too lazy to look at myself in the mirror." Household Objects:Clothing |
| 100% | LCBO | Large Canadian Booze Outlet/Organization |
Angela Brett (LCBO usually stands for Liquor Control Board Ontario) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic |
| 100% | LEAD | Lies Expressionless And Dead |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| 100% | LEADER | Large Editorial Arousing Deep Empathetic Responses |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Communication |
| 80% | LEAF | Light Engenders Aliment for Flowers. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Plants |
| 100% | LEAF (2) | 'Lungs' Each Autumn Fall. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Plants |
| 100% | LEAF (3) | Let's Enumerate A Forest |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Plants |
| 100% | 4 LEAF CLOVER | 40 Lucky Events Are Following, Country Lane Offers Very Enjoyable Ramble |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Religion |
| 100% | LEAP | Lunge Eagerly Across Pit |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Assorted Verbs |
| 100% | LEARN | Lose Educators - Autonomously Read Notes. |
Angela Brett Education |
| 100% | LEATHER | Love Endured Annus Three, Hardly Experiencing Regret. |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the leather (3rd) wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| 100% | LEATHER (2) | Let's Eschew Animals That Have Epidermis Removed |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, saying: this doesn't really reflect my opinion as I love my leather jacket! :-) Science:Biology:Body Parts Household Objects:Clothing |
| 100% | LEBANON | Lasting Ethnic Bitterness Accelerates Neglect Of Nation. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Places:Countries |
| 100% | LEDA | Let Every Duck Arise! |
Rico Leffanta Religion:Greek Gods & Goddesses |
| 100% | LED ZEPPELIN | Loudness = Extreme. Drug, Zoloft, Extremely Proficient Problem Eliminator. Laud Is Needed. |
Jeff Anonymous (see LZ) Entertainment:Music:Artists |
| 100% | LEEDS CASTLE | Luscious Expansive Evergreen, Deeply Searched, Country Assets, Secluded Territorial Landscape, England |
Jan Morgan Places:Buildings Places:Landmarks |
| 100% | LEEK | Let's Eat Everything, 'Kay? |
Sean Lamb Food & Drink |
| 100% | LEFT HAND | Little Enterprising Feline Taken Hold; Abandoning Normal Digits |
Gavin Lambert (I'm having to type this one-handed because my cat is sleeping on my right hand. And I'm right-handed!) Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | LEGAL | Loopholes Exploited, Getting Around Laws |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| 100% | LEGEND | Local Elements Generally Encapsulate Native Deity |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature:Myths & Legends |
| 100% | LEGENDS | Lengthy Epics Generally Explaining Notably Dramatic Stories |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature:Myths & Legends |
| 86% | LEGION | Latin-speaking Expert Gladiators In Outstanding Numbers |
Tony McCoy O'Gladiator Military |
| 100% | LEGO | Lethally Edged Gouging Object |
Joshua Stanchfield Entertainment:Toys |
| 100% | LEGOLAS | Likeable Elf Goes On Long Adventure Sanguinely |
Patricia Rix Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Lord of the Rings |
| 100% | LEGS | Long Elevatory Gear Sticks |
Niki Widdowson Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 100% | LEHI | Leader Endures His Isolation |
Jan Morgan -- Book of Mormon Father of 4 sons Names:Book of Mormon Characters |
| 70% | LEIBNIZ | Loved Equations - Invented Brilliant Notation for Increments of Zero-ish. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| 100% | LEISURE | Layabout Enjoys Idleness - Shunning Using Recreational Equipment |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Sports & Recreation:Relaxation |
| 100% | LEITH | Leith Ends In The Hills |
George Rix Places:Towns & Cities:Canada |
| 100% | LEMMING | Little, Excitable Mammal Masses In Numberless Groupings |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Biology:Animals |
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