BBS and other acronyms

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ac⋅ro⋅nym   [ak-ruh-nim] Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
2. an acrostic.
–verb (used with object)
3. to make an acronym of: The committee's name has been acronymed MIKE.
Origin:
1940–45; acr- + -onym
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ac·ro·nym (āk'rə-nĭm') Pronunciation Key
n. A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging.

[acr(o)- + -onym.]
ac'ro·nym'ic, a·cron'y·mous (ə-krŏn'ə-məs) adj.
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acronym

noun
a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name
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acronym [(ak-ruh-nim)]

A word formed by combining the beginning letters of a name or phrase, as in WASP for white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, or by combining the initial syllables of a series of words, as in radar, which stands for radio detecting and ranging.