OLAs - Official Latest Additions

[This summary post last updated 3.vi.21]

The best place to leave your suggestions for new TLAs is in the comments to this post.

EIT (CIA dodginess)
LKP (missing aircraft)
PNG (immigration)
PSE (porn meets education)
DMT (drugs)
SAF (football) LOL (Lesbianism)
PDA (Heat mag)
COP (The Beats)
ESM (Europe)
NFC (tech)
HMD (bankers' desperation)
FTM (soccer)
KBO (an attitude to life)
GID (medical)
OBE (facial hair)
MIC & AVB (Chelsea)
EMH (economics, finance)
EBA (Eurozone crisis Nov 2011)
POC (interactive media)
NTC (Libya)
DSK (IMF dodgy geezer)
SCG, MCG (cricket)
WFT, WIT (flexible working)
FBI (female bodies)
KoT (youth)
FPM, CPM (bad language)
WRU, FAW (Welsh sport)
CDA (Francais)
DUI (Mel Gibson)
LOL (Northern Irish politics ...and love)
VBM (property development)
OBR, NHT, IFS (UK politics)
ICO, DPA, DPO (data protection)
2IC (military)
TFP (photography/modelling)
WHL, MoS, RSA (football)
BFD (urban argot)
MBW (friend of Banksy)
ADT (The Beatles)
NIB (journalism/press)
FGM (barbarism)
MNU (District 9)
PBR, IDS, DWP (UK politics)
FAG (Team America)
TLV, EMP, REG, OCR (Dan Brown)
POD (geek speak)
TAS (from the mouth of Jack Nicholson)
ATM (a multifaceted one)
HWC (football again)
FIA + FFF (football & cheating)
CPH (to mark CPH:DOX film festival)
AIC (music)
NCM (relationships)
GDD (video games design)
FLK - courtesy of Dr Dawn Harper of Embarrassing Bodies
HABs - football
SCD (TV)
GSI (Scotland)
TOS (impolite)
RTG + OIC - from The Wire
G4P - stems from Antony Gormley's One & Other
QBM - 80s haircut
PIC - from Role Models movie
TYM - a break-through in Alzheimer's, improves screening from 50% to over 90%

Neologisms

As well as being on the look out for new TLAs, I'm also starting to collect Neologisms (newly coined words and phrases) which I'm dumping here (again, any you can add to the pot would be gratefully received):

shrinkflation - making products smaller rather than upping the price (7.18)

floordrobe - a bedroom floor where you chuck your clothes

freemale - an independent, modern woman who is happier living a fulfilling single life than actively pursuing romantic relationships

pharming - creating drugs using plants

Neverendum = the 2014 Scottish referendum
Nonsultation = a hollow 'consultation'

wavey = drunk = good
bump = rip off

belfie = a selfie of your bottom
welfie = a work-out selfie
drelfie = a drunken selfie

starchitect = world renowned architect

pregacy = impact of an initiative even before the event (e.g. effects of Commonwealth Games on Glasgow before the event)
predrinks = getting your evening off to a flying start with alcohol round at someone's place

wofty = a waste of fucking time (person) [estate agency]

himbo = a dumb good looking man

YOLO (vb.) = You Only Live Once as in 'he didn't YOLO it' - he didn't go wild

deer hoof = a very obvious camel toe

la-la / hoo-ha = vagina

Grexit = the probable exit of Greece from the Euro (May 2012) - Dramchmageddon = the probable exit of Greece from the Euro (June 2012)
Brexit = the possible exit of the UK from the EU (2016) [it happened today FFS! 24/6/16]
Frexit = the possible exit of France from the EU (24/6/16)

al desko = [eating] at your desk at work

clicktivism = online activism (see Slacktivism below)

sans sausage = female

meatspace = the real/off-line world

merch = merchandise (especially at music gigs)

zenployment = fulfilling work, even if the pay's not as good as you may be used to

Riot Wombles = volunteers who help clear up their neighbourhood after rioting/looting (9.viii.11)

Schadenfreudgasm = more 'joy in destruction' than you can handle - courtesy of John Oliver on Jon Stewart

Gliberal = comfortable people's style of being liberal

Ledge veg = food grown on windowsill or balcony

Slacktivism = online activism with no personal effort or real commitment

Hobby bobby - community support officer (William Boyd, Ordinary Thunderstorms)

Crash for cash - insurance scam involving ramming people's car rear ends

Hackney tax - theft of bike {courtesy of Alfie Dennen}

Floordrobe - where teenagers leave their clothes

Tanorexic - obsessed with having a sun tan

Autocutie - a sexy newsreader

Halfologue - one side of a conversation like when you overhear a mobile phonecall on the train

A Whiskey Tango Foxtrot moment - as in WTF = What the Fuck?!

Subvertiser - a remixer of advertisements {courtesy of Clifford Singer, creator of MyDavidCameron.com and Big Art Project}

Screenager - the generation addicted to web and games

Miaow Miaow - mephedrone, a legal high (for now at least)

Security theatre - giving the appearance of carrying out proper security checks {courtesy of Roger Graef, Films of Record}

Bromance - the development of a deep friendship between two buddies (came across several times in reviews of Judd Apatow's Funny People)

Frenemy - a so-called friend who is not genuinely on your side

Staycation - a vacation that is spent at one's home enjoying all that home and one's home environs have to offer AKA Holistay

Go To player - the player you have to get the ball to for success (Matt Dawson referring to the magnificent BOD [Brian O'Driscoll] (24.vi.09 Radio 4)

Flipping - changing the designation of your primary home for fraudulent purposes

Polypill - cocktail of 5 non-patent drugs to counter heart disease (30/31.3.09 reporting of article in medical journal)

Virtual reality financial products - the labyrinthine 'products' that brought about the Credit Crunch (31.3.09 Rowan Williams on BBC Radio 4)

to preg up - to get pregnant (Jen Topping's friend who loves One Born Every Minute)

to doxx - search for and publish private or identifying information about a particular individual on the Internet, typically with malicious intent [10/20]

Gin n Tin (11/19) - gin & mixer in a can

The Gram = Instagram

Picture credit: FAS at SFU (Faculty of Applied Sciences at Simon Fraser University, Canada)

S T

S

SAF = Sir Alex Ferguson SAM = Sound & Music {Arts Council = ACE}
SAS = Scandinavian Airlines System or Sparse Airline Service [newly coined after my flights to and from Copenhagen 10/09]
SAT = Schedule All Times – related to advice on when to schedule broadcast trails {courtesy of Channel 4 Compliance}
SBC = Sacha Baron Cohen {courtesy of Mayo & Kermode}, cousin of ABC = Ashley Baron Cohen
SBM = Secure By Mastercard
SCD = Strictly Come Dancing
SCG = Sydney Cricket Ground (where the 2010-11 Ashes in Oz victory was secured 5.i.11)
SDS = Students for a Democratic Society - 60s US activist group {My Promised Land, A. Shavit}
SEO = Search Engine Optimization
SFA = Scottish Football Association (fighting an uphill struggle)
SFC = Southern Fried Chicken
SFW = Safe For Work i.e no nudity or stuff that might get you in trouble {courtesy of sometimes NSFW Zoe Margolis}
SWA = Site Wide Applications, after first 4 years of development became WCL {courtesy Channel 4 New Media}
SWF = Screenwriters' Festival (sponsored by 4Talent)
SLT = Science Lecture Theatre (Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree)
SMR = Social Media Room for Embarrassing Bodies: Live at the Clinic Series 2 (May 2012) {courtesy of Alex Hryniewicz, Maverick TV}
SNF = Sunday Night Football of the NFL variety
SNL = Saturday Night Live
SNS = Social Network Service/Site {courtesy of Matt Locke}

--> SoC = systems on a chip {mobile VR 12/16}SPV = Special Purpose Vehicle - meaning a not-for-profit organisation {courtesy of Caroline Norbury of South-West Screen} + Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle {Captain Scarlet}
SoS = Secretary of State
SPA = Snooker Players' Association
SPG = Special Patrol Group (who killed Blair Peach it was confirmed on 27.4.10 after 30 years' cover-up)
SPT = Sony Pictures Television
SIO = Senior Investigating Officer (UK police)
SIS = Secret Intelligence Service (UK WW2 = MI6)
SIV = Special Investment Vehicle {mentioned on Radio 4 by Niall Ferguson, Harvard Professor of History and presenter of the Channel 4 series Empire} + Simian Immunodeficiency Virus {courtesy of Chris & Xand van Tulleken, the Medicine Men}
SSG = Sausage Sandwich Game (Danny Baker)
SSO = Single Sign On {BBC - courtesy of Azka Malik}
SSI = Single Sign In {Channel 4 - courtesy of Azka Malik}
SPD = Space Patrol Delta {courtesy of Finlay Gee, age 5}
SLA
= Software License Agreement {Apple Software Update}
= Service Level Agreement
= Symbionese Liberation Army {Patti Smith, Hey Joe}
SLT
= Science Lecture Theatre {unearthed by renowned archaeologist Nick Golson}
= Speech & Language Therapy {courtesy of Fairley House School}
SDM = Sustainable Defence Mechanism {courtesy of Practical Psychologist from UNFCCC, the UN Climate Change agency}
SID = Sound Inner Dialogue {courtesy of Practical Psychologist and his Assertiveness training know-how} + Seismic Intruder Device {courtesy of Sebasian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming in Devil May Care aka DMC}
SIS = Secret Intelligence Service aka MI6
SOE = Special Operations Executive {courtesy of Les Femmes de l'Ombre/Female Agents} + Society of Operations Engineers [professional engineering membership organisation promoting career development in road transport, plant engineering or engineer surveying, and light on gorgeous French actresses]
STB = Set-top Box
STD = Section Defense Territoire {On Her Majesty's Secret Service} French secret service in the 60s
STS = Short Term Solution {courtesy of Daily Networker}
SFT = Students for a Free Tibet (who unfurled banners near the Olympic stadium in Beijing today 6.8.08 )
SRE = Sex and Relationship Education
SJP = Sarah Jessica Parker, creator of the scent SJP NYC
SFO = Serious Fraud Office (which today decided not to investigate TV phone-in scandals at the BBC and ITV)
SRE = Sex and Relationships Education (much in the news in the wake of Sexperience X.09 )
SOW = Scheme of Work
SHH = Special Half Hour (Richard Bacon show on BBC Radio 5, refers to 12.30-01.00)
SOP = Standard Operating Procedure (Billy Boyle by James Benn)
SDP = Social, Domestic and Pleasure only (car insurance jargon) + Social Democratic Party + Society of Decorative Painters + Session Description Protocol
SOB = Son of a Bitch
STV = Single Transferable Vote - the form of Proportional Representation favoured by the Lib-Dems (this entry is to mark the Lib-Dems entering the UK Cabinet on 11.V.10)
SVR = Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki - successor to KGB {Personal - Lee Child}
SWB = Summary of World Broadcasts (BBC monitoring)
SWC = Schedule with care [TV]

SKD = St Katherine’s Dock (London)

SLA

= Symbionese Liberation Army

= Service Level Agreement

SLP = Sergio Lorenzo Pizzorno (Kasabian)

SRF = Self-Realization Fellowship (Chiltern St)

SSA = Service de Santé des Armées (French military ambulances WW2)

STA = Service de Travail Obligatoire (forced labour WW2) 

T

TAS = Toxic Anger Syndrome {Anger Management with Jack Nicholson}
TCR = Tottenham Court Road - see NCR
TCS = The Casting Suite
TBH = To Be Honest {Tom Loosemore of 4iP}
TCD = Trinity College, Dublin
TCM = Traditional Chinese Medicine (a shop in Muswell Hill)
TDC = Thinly Disguised Contempt {courtesy of Technokitten}
TFP = Time For Prints / Time For Portfolio / Trade For Prints / Trade For Portfolio {courtesy of Not From Concentrate}
TFP aka TOFP = that (other) fucking project {courtesy Mark Sheldon}
TGA = Tate Gallery Archive (A Crisis of Brilliance, David Haycock)
TMF = The Media Festival
TML = Trans Manche Link {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}
TLC
= (no, not what you think) Taxi and Limousine Commission {New York City}
= Touch Look Check (Breast cancer awareness)
TLV = Total Liquid Ventilation {The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown} (breathable liquid or Get Out of Jail plot card)
TSB = Technology Strategy Board {offspring of another TLA, the DTI, which is now an FLA}
TLD = Top Level Domain
TLR = Two-legged Rat [commonly used on doctors' notes to indicate experimental/extreme treatment - from The Guardian: Medical Shorthand 8.2.08]
TNA = Total Non-stop Action
TNC = Transitional National Council, a variant of National Transitional Council still used on the BBC, for example, in the first days after the liberation of Tripoli (Libya 22.viii.11)
TOD = Time of Death {Michael Connelly}
TOGs = Terry's Old Geezers & Gals {Terry Wogan on BBC Radio 2}
TSE = Testicular Self-examination (thanks for the leaflet Una, TS Eliot must be turning in his grave)
TSG = Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (EU food designation - formerly CSE)
TBH = To be honest {courtesy of Cowbite - "less pompous than imho" ihho}
TPT = Tara Palmer-Tomkinson [how many people are TLAs?]
TBL = Tim Berners Lee {courtesy of Stuart Cosgrove}
TBI = Traumatic Brain Injury {courtesy of Gary Trudeau as he addresses the issue of Iraq}
TLA = Three Letter Acronym + Teacher Learning Academy + Thomas Lord Audley school, Essex
TNA
= The National Archive {courtesy of October Films & Illumina Digital}
= Thermal Neutron Analysis (airport security) {John Updike, Rabbit at Rest}
TSV = Today's Special Value as seen on QVC {courtesy of LJ Rich via Technokitten}
TBS = Talk Between Ships {Philip Kerr: Hitler's Peace}
TMI = Too Much Information
TAC = The Archaeology Channel
TST = Traveller Support Team {courtesy of Siren's Cry}
THR = The Hollywood Reporter {courtesy of THR spam}
TLR = The Learning Revolution {courtesy of WEA}
TMO - Test Match Official {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}
TCG = Tir Chonaill Gaels (GAA Gaelic football club in London)
TYM = Test Your Memory (new Altzheimer's screening test from Addenbrookes hospital, Cambridge - 6/09)
TOD = Time of Death {The Killing}
TOGs = Terry's Old Geezers/Gits (Terry Wogan show on Radio 2)
TOS = Tide of Shit {courtesy of Lloyd Shepherd and RDH = Richard Davidson-Houston}
TOV = Tone of voice {courtesy of Airlock}
TPL = Towed Pinger Locator [MH370 mystery crash 24/3/14]
TRG = The Transliteracy Research Group {courtesy of Sue Thomas}
TSE = Thomas Stearns Eliot
TSG = Talent Selection Group - BBC 50s/60s - listen to Auditioning for Auntie (Radio 4 21/10/13)
TWA = Transworld Airlines AKA Teenie-Weenie Airlines (the nickname used by Hitchcock)

TFC The flash Centre Bloomsbury Centre

TGB = The Good Burger (Rome 10/18)

TGD = The Greatest Dancer (BBC)

THR = Total Hip Replacement (Here I Am)

TLC = The Loft Converter (Barnet)

TOR = The Onion Router