Acronym
Acronym noun - A word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name.
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Don't Explain the Joke: apart from the Rule of Three, his initials form a Polish acronym for "f**k knows what".
- Every episode of Codename: Kids Next Door has a title of the form "Operation: ______", where the ______ is always an acronym that both fits the theme of the episode and expands to a phrase that fits the theme.
- Shaped Like Itself: Two characters form a loyalist pressure group called the "Protestant Loyalist Organisation for Protestants" after realising that the acronym of their first choice was already in use by the Palestinian Liberation Organisation.
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