Meanings (ES + gloss)
abreviación
The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
abreviación
A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase used to represent the whole, using omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
Americans, for example, call newcomers to Antarctica “fingies”, which comes from FNGs – a borrowed military abbreviation that means “Fucking New Guy”.
Hants is an abbreviation of Hampshire.
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