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backronym

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1. backronym - Noun

2. backronym - Verb

Meaning

backronym (third-person singular simple present backronyms, present participle backronyming or backronymming, simple past and past participle backronymed or backronymmed)

To create a backronym.

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backronym (plural backronyms)

A word that is originally not an acronym but is turned into one by devising a full form for it, sometimes as a folk etymology, sometimes as a contrived acronym to name a new organization, proposal, or other entity.

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A backronym was nevertheless created, perhaps to avoid trademark issues, KL10 Error-Free Reciprocal Microprocessor Interchange over TTY lines. Source: Internet

In American English shit as a past participle is often correct, while shat is generally acceptable and shitted is uncommon and missing from the Random House and American Heritage dictionaries. citation Backronyms The backronym form "S. Source: Internet

One of its original authors, Laurence Lundblade, insists this was never the case and that it started off simply as a word and not an acronym, and that his first choice of a backronym for pine would be "Pine Is Nearly Elm". Source: Internet

Joe Frazer, Willys-Overland President from 1939 to 1944, claimed to have coined the word jeep by slurring the initials G.P. citation There are no contemporaneous uses of "GP" before later attempts to create a "backronym." Source: Internet

Outlawz chose in later years to make a backronym out of the letters of their group name Operating Under Thug Laws as Warriorz although it does not stand for the group's name and is used infrequently. Source: Internet

MAXC was also a backronym for Multiple Access Xerox Computer. Source: Internet

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