Greetings to all newcomers into World of Warcraft.

It has come to my attention that within World of Warcraft there is a big amount of words that typed using few letters (abbreviations) or "slang" here in the forums and within the game in order to keep the typing and conversations short. A lot of newcomers are not familiar with some or most of these words or what they mean, and so they ask themselves "What does AP mean?", "What is Imba?", "What is CP?", OP, AH, BWL, BRD, UBRS,.. and so on and on.

There are approximately hundreds of these words out there that are constantly being used on a daily basis, by nearly everybody.

Therefore for all newcomers I would like to provide a list of abbreviations, the ones that are generally known by the public within World of Warcraft. If there are some that are missing, they will be added and updated if appropriate.

For information about what does the deciphered word or phrase mean, you can get full information on any of the following links:

http://www.wowwiki.com/

http://www.wowhead.com/

Kind regards
Roemer

A

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AB - Arathi Basin

ADD - Additional Monster

AEP - Agility Equivalence Points

AFAIK - As far as I know

AFK - Away From Keyboard

AGGRO - Focus of monster's aggression

AGI - Agility

AH - Auction House

ALT - Alternate Character

AN - Azjol-Nerub

ANK - Ahn'kahet the old Kingdom

AOE - Area of Effect

AP - Attack Power

AQ - Anh'Qiraj

AR - Adrenaline Rush

ARP - Armor Penetration

ATM - At the moment

AUCH - Auchindoun

AV - Alterac Valley

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B

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BAF - Bring a Friend

BEM - Blades Edge Mountains

BFD - Blackfathom Deeps

BG - Battleground

BOA - Binds on Account

BOE - Binds on Equip

BOM - Blessing of Might

BOP - Binds on Pickup

BOU - Binds on Use

BOW - Blessing of Wisdom

BRD - Blackrock Depths

BRS - Blackrock Spire

BS - Blacksmith

BT - Black Temple

BTW - By the way

BUFF - Beneficial Spell

BWL - Blackwing Lair

BYOM - Bring your own materials

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C

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C (or Cop) - Copper

CC - Crowd Control

CCG - Collectible card game

CD - Cooldown

COA - Curse of Agony

COS - Culling of Strathholme

COT - Caverns of Time

CP - Combo Points

CRIT - Critical Hit (or Critical Heal)

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D

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DAL - Dalaran

DC - Disconnect

DC'ed - Disconnected

DD - Direct Damage

DE - Disenchant

DEBUFF - Reductionary Spell

DK - Death Knight

DKP - Dragon Kill Points

DM - Dire Maul

DMG - Damage

DND - Do Not Disturb

DOT - Damage Over Time

DPM - Damage Per Mana

DPS - Damage Per Second

DTK - Drak'Tharon Keep

DW - Dual Weild

DWM - Dustwallow Marsh

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E

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EFC - Enemy Flag Carrier

EOE - Eye of Eternity

EOTS - Eye of the Storm

EPL - Eastern Plaguelands

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F

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FC - Flag Carrier

FFA - Free for All

FOTM - Flavour of the Month

FPS - Frames Per Second

FRR - Frost Resistance

FT - Flametongue

FTL - For the Loss

FTW - For the Win

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G

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G - Gold

G2G - Got to go (Have to go)

GANK - Kill

GANKED - Killed

GCD (or GLCD) - Global Cooldown

GD - Good Duel

GJ - Good Job

GL - Good Luck

GM - Game Master (or Guild Master)

GNOMER - Gnomeregan

GOTW - Gift of the Wild

GTAOE - Ground Targeted Area of Effect

GTG - Good to Go (can be used as "Got to Go")

GY - Graveyard

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H

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HC - Heroic

HFB - Hunger for Blood

HFP - Hellfire Peninsula

HH - Honor Hold

HK - Honourable Kill

HOL - Halls of Lightning

HOS - Halls of Stone

HOT - Heal Over Time

HP - Hit Points

HP5 - Health per 5 Seconds

HS - Hearthstone

HVH - Heroic Violet Hold

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I

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IC - In Character

IDC - I don't care

IDK - I don't know

IF - Ironforge

IMBA - Imbalanced

IMO - In my opinion

INC - Incoming

INT - Intellect

INV - Invite

IRL - In Real Life

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J

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JC - Jewelcrafter

JK - Just Kidding

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K

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KARA - Karazhan

KK - Ok

KOS - Kill on Sight

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L

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L2P - Learn to Play

L33T - Elite

LBRS - Lower Blackrock Spire

LC - Lower City

LD (or LDC) - Link Disconnect

LEET - Elite

LF - Looking For

LF1M - Looking for one more

LF2M - Looking for two more

LF3M - Looking for three more

LF4M - Looking for four more

LFG - Looking for Group

LFM - Looking for More

LFW - Looking for Work

LIB - Library

LM - Lumber Mill

LOCK - Warlock

LOH - Lay on Hands

LOL - Laugh Out Loud

LOM - Low on Mana

LOS - Line of Sight

LRN2 - Learn to

LVL - Level

LW - Leatherworker

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M

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MATS (or Matts) - Materials

MC - Mind Control (or Molten Core)

MGT - Magisters' Terrace

MH - Main Hand

ML - Master Looter

MMOG - Massively Multiplayer Online Game

MMORPG - Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game

MOAR - More

MOB - Mobile Object or monster

MOTD - Message of the Day

MOTW - Mark of the Wild

MP5 - Mana per five Seconds

MS - Mortal Strike

MT - Main Tank (or Miss Tell)

MV - Morgan's Vigil

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N

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N - Need

NAX - Naxxramas

NAXX - Naxxramas

NERF - To make weaker

NERFED - Made weaker

NEWB - A new player

NOOB - New, unskilled player

NP - No problem

NPC (or AI) - Non Player Character

NR - Nature Resist

NUKE - Deal damage while ignoring threat and aggro

NVM - Never mind

NYI - Not yet implemented

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O

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OBO - Or Best Offer

OCC - The Oculus (or Out of Character)

OFC - Ofcourse

OH - Off Hand

OHB (or OHF) - Old Hillsbrad Foothills

OHK - One Hit Kill

OMG - Oh My God

OMW - On my way

One-Shot (or Oneshoted) - To hit and kill with a first and single hit removing 100% of HP.

ONY - Onyxia's Lair

ONYX - Onyxia's Lair

OOC - Out of Combat

OOM - Out of Mana

OOR - Out of Range

OOS - Out of Sight

OOW - On our Way

OP - Overpowered

ORG - Orgrimmar

OS - Obsidian Sanctum

OT - Off Tank

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P

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PAT - Patrol

PBAOE - Point blank Area of Effect

PK - Player Kill

PKER (or Ganker) - Player Killer

PLOX - Please

PM - Private Message

PORT - Portal

PPR - Points per Run

PROC - To activate upon certain conditions

PST - Please send tell

PUG - Pick up Group

PVE - Player versus Environment

PVP - Player versus Player

PWN - To dominate

PZOUS - Perfect Zone of Ultimate Safety

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Q

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QFT - Quoted for Truth

QQ (qq) - Tears

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R

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R - Are

RAID - Group of 6 to 40 players

RAP - Ranged Attack Power

REG - Regular

RES (or Rez) - Ressurect

RESTO - Restoration

RETRI - Retribution

RFC - Ragefire Chasm

RH - Relief Hut

RL - Real Life

RNG - Random Number Generator

ROS - Reliquary of Souls

RP - Role-playing

RRQ - Repeatable Reputation Quest

RW (or Live) - Real World, indicating Official World of Warcraft Server

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S

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S - Silver

SCHOLO - Scholomance

SFK - Shadowfang Keep

SH - Shattered Halls or Sethekk Halls

SHATT - Shattrath City

SL - Shadow Labyrinth

SLS - Shroud Loot System

SM - Scarlet Monastery

SMC - Silvermoon City

SMV - Shadowmoon Valley

SOJ - Seal of Justice

SOTA (or SOA) - Strand of the Ancients

SOZ - Sorry

SP - Spell Power (or Shadow Priest)

SPAWN - Origin Point

SPRIEST - Shadow spec'd Priest

SS - Soul Stone (may refer to Soul Shard)

SSC - Serpentshrine Cavern

ST - Stables

STAM - Stamina

STOCK (or Stocks) - The Stockade

STR - Strength

STRAT - Stratholme

STV - Stranglethorn Vale

SV - Steamvault

SW - Stormwind City

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