UK Chatroom Bingo Lingo Explained
All online bingo sites worth their weight these days have bingo chatrooms where players can converse, commiserate and congratulate each other whilst playing. Many advanced users will use shortened versions (acronyms) of common phrases to save typing them all the time such as 'np' for No Problem. Here are a few that you may encounter early on that may confuse you:
| Acronym | Meaning |
| AFAIK | As Far As I Know |
| AFK | Away From the Keyboard |
| AFN | that's All For Now |
| BBL | Be Back Later |
| boot | To get kicked out of a chat room, or have to restart the computer because you couldn't talk in the chat room anymore. |
| BRB | Be Right Back |
| BTW | By The Way |
| CAT | Calling All Tiddles! (the call for Mr Tiddles to go for dinner) |
| CU | See You - also posted as cya |
| EG | Evil Grin |
| FYI | For Your Information |
| GMTA | Great Minds Think Alike |
| GTR | Got To Run |
| IMHO | In My Humble Opinion (or In My Honest Opinion) |
| JK | Just Kidding |
| L8R | Later |
| LOL | Laughing Out Loud |
| NP, np | No Problem |
| OMG | Oh My Gosh |
| rl or RL | Real Life (as opposed to being online) |
| ROTF | Rolling On The Floor (laughing is implied) |
| TC | Take Care |
| TNT | 'Til Next Time |
| TPTB | The Powers That Be (can sometimes refer to the people that are running the chat room or site) |
| TTFN | Ta-Ta For Now |
| TTYL | Talk To You Later |
| TY | Thank You |
| WB | Welcome Back (you say this when someone returns to a chat room) |
| YW | You're Welcome |
