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Texting Abbreviations

Texting abbreviations are used to express thoughts, impressions, opinions, and information in a way that minimizes the amount of symbols, space and time but conveys the entire meaning of a statement and its significance. Long ago it took much time for a person to create SMS (Short Message Service) as it was necessary to press the keypad several times to find the right letter, figure or sign. Moreover, SMS has a limited amount of symbols for what you pay a definite price. So, people decided that it is not obligatory to follow all the spelling, punctuation and stylistic rules in everyday communication via text messages. And to save time, money and effort they started making shortenings and abbreviations. Later on, with the development of new and popular real-time communication technologies, online chat-rooms, discussion boards, social networks, emails emerged and gained popularity. There are millions of texting abbreviations; some of them are universal and well-known, others are used in specific fields of individual's social activity. On our website we have compiled a list of texting abbreviations which is far from being complete but the most popular of them are given below.

Look through 5000 acronyms and abbreviations related to Texting:

! Surprised    
!-( Black eye    
!-) Proud of black eye    
!-| Smiley with a black eye    
!o) Winking (Taking a peak)    
"8*# drunk    
######:o) Marge Simpson     
#-) Partied All Night (Original Smiley)    
#-o Doh!    
#:-) From a person with matted hair    
#:-) Messy Hair    
#:-) Smiling with a fur hat    
#:-o Shocked    
$-) Won the lottery    
$-) Money Eyes    
$-0 Writer only talks money    
% { Lost a Fight    
%%- lucky    
%' Hangover    
%') Very Tired    
%(|:-) Propeller-head    
%*@:-( Hungover with headache    
%*@:-) Freaking Out    
%*} Inebriated    
%- ) Confused    
%-( Confused and unhappy    
%-) silly    
%-) Dazed    
%-6 Brain Dead    
%-{ Ironic    
%-| Been Up All Night    
%-} Dizzy    
%-} Intoxicated    
%/ Alcohol drink    
%OD Laughing Like Crazy    
%v Picasso    
%^> Smiley by Picasso    
&& and    
&&&& Pretzels    
&&&/ Pretzels    
&-) Stoned    
&-| Crying    
&: ) Curly haired smiling girl    
&:-) Bad Hairday    
&:-) Smiling with curls    
&:-) Ace Ventura    
&:-) Curly Hair    
'-) Winking    
( ):^) Marge Simpson     
( :o (|) Homer Simpson