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anacronym
n. An acronym where few people remember what each letter stands for (anachronistic + acronym).
wombat
n. Something that is profoundly uninteresting and/or useless.
Notes:
This sense of the word comes from the acronym WOMBAT: Waste Of Money Brains And Time.
YIMBY
n. A person who favors a project that would add a dangerous or unpleasant feature to his or her neighborhood. [Acronym from the phrase yes in my back yard.] (YIMBYist n. - YIMBYism n.).
BANANA
acronym. Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anyone. A person who is opposed to new real estate development, particularly projects close to their neighbourhood. - adj.
SITCOM
acronym. Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. The natural evolution of upwardly-mobile couples who have children and then one spouse stops working to raise the kids.
HENRY
n. A person with a substantial income, but who is not yet wealthy. [From the phrase High Earner, Not Rich Yet].
BRICs
(briks) acronym. The countries of Brazil, Russia, India, and China viewed as a group of emerging economies with large potential markets. - adj.
The image underlying this acronym is the brick, meaning we're supposed to think of the nascent economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China as being akin to building blocks that, if the rosy forecasts come true, will form the foun­dation of the global economy in the decades to come.
YUPPIE
It seems like the word yuppie (derived from the acronym of the phrase “young urban professional”) has been with us forever, but it only entered the lexicon around 1982. It fought a pitched battle with the rival terms yumpie (based on “young upwardly mobile professional”) and yap (based on “young aspiring professional”) but yuppie proved to be too strong.
It was only a couple of years after yuppie first appeared that a new verb was coined: yuppify. In terms of today's phrase, it means to create a yuppie slum like the one described in definition 2.