Cigar Related Terms
B&M = Brick and Mortar – physical store to purchase tobacco in
BOMB = unsolicited gift (short answer)
BOTL = Brother of the Leaf
CA = Cigar Aficionado
Cab = Cabinet...wooden sliding top box containing 50 sticks...
Dog Rocket= A really terrible cigar.
Dry box = Putting cigars you intend to smoke in the near future in a box (typically a desktop humidor) to lower their RH (dry them out a bit). Some here (me) prefer to smoke many Cuban cigars at a lower RH than they typically store them at. You can do it randomly, relying on the lower ambient RH in your room or as I do with 60% RH beads in the humidor.
Herf = A gathering of people enjoying cigars and the company of each other
ISOM = Island South of Miami (i.e. Cuba)
LLG = Lowland Gorillas (members of this club)
“Newb”, “Newbie”- relatively new to cigar smoking
ROTT = Right Off The Truck
SBN - Semi Boite Nature, a wooden box with a flat, hinged lid and a clasp
SOTL = Sister of the Leaf
Cigars
898UV = 898 Unvarnished
898V = 898 Varnished
AF - Arturo Fuente
AFSS - Arturo Fuente Short Story
AVSG=Ashton Virgin Sun Grown
BBF= Bolivar Belicos Finos
BBMF - (Special Release Opus) Big Bad Mother F&^%#$
BCG = Bolivar Coronas Gigantes
BCJ = Bolivar Corona Jr.
Beli = Belicoso
Boli = Bolivar
BRC= Bolivar Royal Corona
BTL = Hemingway Between The Lines
CE = Corona Extra
CF = Cigar Family
CG = Corona Gorda
Cohibo = Fake Cohiba
Connie - Consuerga
COR = Cohiba Robusto
CS = Conneticut Shade Wrapper or Choix Supreme (ERDM)
DC= Double Corona
DP = Davidoff Dom Perignon
DR = Dominican Republic
EL = Edition Limitada
EPI 1 = Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No 1
EPI 2 = Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No 2
Epi#1 = HdM Epicure No. 1
Epi#2 = HdM Epicure No. 2
ERDM = El Rey Del Mundo
Fauxhiba = Fake Cohiba
FFOX = Fuente Fuente Opus X
HB = Davidoff Haut Brione
HC = Havana Club Cuban Rum
HdM = Hoyo de Monterrey
- HdM DC = Hoyo de Monterrey Double Corona
- HdM Epi#1 = Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No. 1
- HdM Epi#2 = Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No. 2
HU = H. Upmann
HU2 = H Upmann #2
HUSW = H Uppman Sir Winston
JdN = Joya de nicaragua
JL = Juan Lopez
JL1 = Juan Lopez Seleccion No 1
JL2 = Juan Lopez Seleccion No 2
LBMF - (Special Release Opus) Lil' Bad Mother F&^%#$
LCDH = La Casa del Habano
LGC = La Gloria Cubana
LGCT= La Gloria Cubana Tainos
LGC7 - La Gloria Cubana Series 7
LGT= La Gloria Cubana Tainos
Luci = Partagas Lusitania
Mad, Maddie = Maduro
Mag46 = H. Upmann Magnum 46
MC = Montecristo
-MC#1 = Montecristo No. 1
-MC#2 = Montecristo No. 2
-MC#3 = Montecristo No. 3, etc.
MCA = Montecristo A
Monte = Montecristo
- Monte#1 = Montecristo No. 1
- Monte#2 = Montecristo No. 2
- Monte#5 = Montecristo No. 5, etc.
Nat = Natural
Nattie = natural (cameroon, Conneticut Shade, etc.)
NC = Non-Cuban
OSG=Original Sun Grown
PAM = Padron Anniversario Maduro
PAN = Padron Anniversario Natural
PBP = Punch Black Prince
PC = Petit Corona
PERF X = FFOX Perfexcion X
PLPC = Por Larranaga Petit Corona
PP = Punch Punch
PSD4 = Partagas Series D No.4
RA = Ramon Allones
RAG = Ramon Allones Gigantes
RAPC = Rampn Allones Petit Corona
RASCC = Ramon Allones Small Club Corona
RASS = Ramon Allones Specially Selected
RG = Rafael Gonzalez
RP - Rocky Patel
RS = Royal Selection
RyJ = Romeo y Julieta
RyJ CF = Romeo y Julieta Celestiales Finos
RyJ EX4 = Romeo y Julieta Exhition No 4
RyJ POW = Romeo y Julieta Prince of Wales
SC = San Cristobal de La Habana
Shark = Arturo Fuente Anejo #77
Sig I, II, III, etc = Cohiba Siglo sizes
SLB = Slide Lid Box
SLR = Saint Louis Rey
SP = Sancho Panza
SPB= Sancho Panza Belicosos
SPBeli = Sancho Panza Belicoso
SS = Super Selection
TPC = Tres Petit Corona
Trini = Trinidad
UTS = Hemingway Untold Story
VR = Vega Robaina
VRDA = Vegas Robaina Don Alejandros
VRDA= Vegas Robaina Don Alejandro
VRU= Vegas Robaina Unicos
VSG = Ashton Virgin Sun Grown
WOA = Hemingway Work of Art
WOAM = Work of Art Maduro
WOAN - Work of Art Natural
xXx = Opus X^3 (Power Ranger)
Message Acronyms:
all posts in upper case = YELLING
AFK - Away From The Keyboard
ASAP = as soon as possible
ASC = alt.smokers.cigars (a USENET Newsgroup)
BBL - Be Back Later
BLUF = bottom line up front
BRB - Be Right Back
BTW - By The Way
BUMP - A way of reviving a thread
Buttnugget = Flipflop
CUL - See You Later
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
Fog = F'in Old Guy - someone who has been around here too long
FTG = Friendly Trading Gorrila/Guy
FWIW - For What It's Worth
FYI - For Your Information
HTH- Hope That Helps
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO - In My Not-So-Humble Opinion
IMO - In My Opinion
IOT = in order to
JAFO=just another f'n observer
L8R - Later
LMAO = Laughing My @ss off
LMFAO = take a guess
LOL = Laughing Out Loud
MO = Our friend in London :-)
NSFW = Not Safe For Work
NSTR = nothing significant to report
OIC - Oh I See
PIF = pay it forward
PITA= Pain in the A$$
ROFL = Rolling On Floor Laughing
ROTFLMAO - Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A$$ Off
TFTL = thanks for the link
TIA - Thanks In Advance
TOP = A way bring attention to a msg thread without adding content
TTYL - Talk To You Later
URL - Universal Resource Locator (Web site address)
WB - Welcome Back
WTF? = What the @#$&?
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
YMMV = your mileage may vary