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Here is a list of common acronyms and shortforms used when discussing MapleStory.

A

AB

Arrow Blow - Bowman Skill

AC

Auto-Clicker. Before Wizet's implementation of GameGuard, these programs were one of the most popular way to gain entrance into the Kerning City and Ludibrium Party Quests. Wizet now prohibits their use. Despite the ban, they still are very popular today.

AE

Arrow Eruption - Sniper Skill

AFK

Away From Keyboard; typically suggests that a player is currently inactive, but still logged on.

AFMS

Away From Maple Story

AR

Arrow Rain - Ranger Skill

Aqua Road

ATM

Short for "at the moment".

Asi, Asia, Asianic

Asianic Bow - Bowman Bow

B

Bagged

Death by another player's summoning bag.

Banditsin

A rogue that maxes Lucky 7 and will make the job advancement as a bandit.

BB

Bow Booster - Bowman Skill

Bye Bye

Bathroom Break

Black Bandana

BC

Black Crystal (usually the ore)

Bomb

Arrow Bomb - Hunter Skill

Booster

Weapon booster skill - Most classes have a skill to boost their attack speed.

BRB

Be Right Back - Player must leave, but will be right back.

"B>"

Shorthand used to mean "Buying".

C

CB

Crossbow Booster - Bowman Skill

Chief Bandit - third job for Bandits

CC

Change channel(s). Considered very rude to most people. To change channels means to leave a map (presumably to another channel) that someone is training on to avoid Kill Stealing them.

CC Plz

Change channel(s) please. Another way people use "CC".

CE

Curse Eyes, found around Sleepywood and Ellinia.

Cold Eyes, found deep in the Dungeon.

Clean

An equipment with all of its slots remaining.

Coolies

The Coolie Zombies in the Forest of Dead Trees maps deep in El Nath.

CP5

Cloud Park 5, a popular training spot.

CRog

Crimson Balrog - One of the most powerful monsters in the game.

CS

Critical Shot - Bowman Skill

Cash Shop

Cursed Sanctuary, the map where Jr. Balrog spawns.

D

Dark YnP

Dark Yeti & Dark Pepe combined - Enemy found in Dangerous Cliff

DC

Disconnected (also written as D/C)

Dark Crystal (usually the ore)

Defamer

Player defame others who does not do anything bad. Defamers may defame for fun, lossing a game, jeaious others level up or more powerful.

Dit

Bandit

DK

Dragon Knight - third job of the Spearman.

DMT

Drake's Meal Table - Map in the dungeon, contains Cold Eyes, Cargos, and Drakes.

DR

Dark Ritual - Level 75 Magician staff

DS

Double Shot - Bowman Skill

Dark Sight - Thief Skill

Devil's Sunrise - Level 90 two-handed sword

DSG

Dark Stone Golem - Monster found in Sleepywood Dungeon III, IV, V and Golem Temple 3

DT

Death Teddies - Monster found in Forgotten Path of Time 3

DW

Don't worry.

E

EE

Evil Eye - Monster found in the Dungeon

EEC(1-4)

Evil Eye Caves 1-4.

ER

Elemental Resistance - Dragon Knight Skill

Elemental Resistance - Priest Skill

ET

Evil Tale - Level 58 Magician Wand

EW

Evil Wing - Level 65 Magician Staff

EXP

Experience, usually mean current EXP %

F

FA

Final Attack - Bowman & Warrior Skill

Fire Arrow - Skill for Fire Wizards

Fame

Fame - Required to begin certain quests and wear specific equipments.

Farrow

Fire Arrow - Skill for Fire Wizards

Fizard

Fire Wizard - 2nd Job for Magicians

FJ

Flash Jump - Hermit Skill

FM

Free Market

G

GC

Golden Crow - Bowman Crossbow

GG

Good Game

GJ

Good Job

GK

Gatekeeper - A powerful monster found within the Warped Passage.

GM

Game Master - The employees of Wizet who strive to maintain order in Maple Story. Easily identifiable by the GM symbol above their heads.

Grim

Grim Phantom Watches, high-level monsters that are found in Ludibrium.

H

HA

Holy Arrow - active skill available only for magicians, specifically clerics, in which a 'holy' or 'divine' arrow is fired at any surrounding enemies and foes. This inflicts a great deal of damage upon undead monsters, when this skill has been maxed.

HB

Hyper Body - Spearman Skill

HHG

Henesys Hunting Grounds - The first map to the left of Henesys.

HP

Health/Hit Point(s) - the amount of life, or health, a player may have. Acquiring damage may result in the decreasing of health/hit points, while consuming any type of health-providing products may result in the increasing of health/hit points. HP is indicated by a medium-sized red bar that is located at the very bottom of the screen right to the left of the MP bar.

HS

Holy Symbol - Priest Skill

Hidden Street - www.hidden-street.net

Hybrid

A spearman who uses both spears and polearms, or a bandit that uses luck and str daggers.

I

IA

Iron Arrow - Bowman Skill

IDC

I don't care.

IDK

I don't know.

IGN

In-Game Name - Used when requesting another person's character name when not in the game

I/L

Ice-Lightning Wizard/Mage.

J

Jaeger

Gross Jaeger - Level 70 Crossbow

Jeti, J Yeti

Jr. Yeti - Enemy found east of El Nath

JQ

Jump Quest

Jr.Rog

Jr. Balrog

K

KB

Knockback - Ability to knock an enemy back by doing more than a certain amount of (monster dependant) damage.

Kittens, Kitties

Jr. Cellions/Jr.Lioners/Jr. Grupins - Enemies found in Garden area of Cloud Park.

KS

Kill Steal - Kill steal is when one user kills a monster that another user is fighting, or is about to fight. It is usually depreciated by users.

L

L7

Lucky Seven - Thief Skill

Lawl

Replacement for LOL due to similar pronunciation, with identical meaning.

Lizzard

Lightning Wizard - 2nd Job for Magicians

LMAO

Laugh/Laughing my a** off - used when somone says something really funny.

LMFAO

Laugh/Laughing my f**king ass off - used when somone says something extremely funny.

LOL

Laugh Out Loud

LOWB (2)

Land of the Wild Boar - located just to the right of Perion, in a Hidden Street, or Land of the Wild Boar II, located in a Hidden Street at the East Domain of Perion.

Ludi

Short for the Ludibrium area of Ossyria, or the town with the same name.

lvl

Level

Lycan/Lyco

Lycanthrope - Enemies found in Wolf Territory III and IV

M

Macis

Tauromacis - An enemy found on the way to Jr. Balrog

Mass Defame

The act of defaming a character multiple times by either using alternate characters, or calling upon one's friends to defame the character.

MB

Mortal Blow - Ranger and Sniper Skill

MC

Magic Claw - Magician Skill

Magic Composition: Mage Third job Skill

MDT

Master Death Teddies - Monster found in Lost Time, a Hidden Street off Forgotten Path of Time 3

ME

Meso Explosion - Chief Bandit Skill

MG

Mix Golem

Magic Guard(mage)

Meso Guard(chief Bandit)

MM

Mushmom - Boss monster found in 'Someone Else's House' <--(Hidden Street located near taxi cab of Henesys.)

MP

Mana/Magic Point(s) - A type of substance that enables a player to cast and perform magic, as in skills. MP is indicated by a medium-sized bar that is light-blue in color, located at the very bottom of the screen right beside the HP bar, while one is running the MapleStory program.

MS

MapleStory

N

Newbie

A new player to the game.

Noob

Common insult used for describing experienced players who behave like newbies.

NPC

Non-Player Character. (Shop/Quest characters)

Act of selling an item to a shop NPC instead of to another player.

Nub

Another form of noob.

O

Oly

Olympus - Bowman Bow

OMFG

Oh my f**king god.

OMG

Oh My God

Oh My Gosh

"OMG Spear": Omega Spear, level 80 item

OS

Omega Sector

Ossy

Ossyria

Owned

Term used for describing that a player has either killed a monster with ease or been killed by a monster.

P

Pang

White Pang - A monster found outside El Nath, commonly in Wolf Territory 3-5

PC

Price Check, used to get a feel for what the price of a (usually rare) item is.

PG

Power Guard - Fighter and Page skill

Pizard

Poison Wizard - Fire/Poison Wizard who uses pure Poison. Very uncommon build.

PKB

Power Knock-Back - Hunter and Crossbowman skill.

Pls, Plz, Pl0x

Please - common for noobs to say, especially when someone wants you to change channels.

Poly

Bowman Polyfeather Hat

PQ

Party Quest

PS

Power Strike - Warrior Skill

PT

Party. Party members can share part of EXP gained from other members (as known as Training). All memebers can pick up any mesos or items dropped by monsters killed by other memebers.

PT Leech

Party Leech(PTL) is who join a party do not kill but gain EXP from party.

Pwned

Common, intentional mispelling of 'owned', with same meaning.

R

R>

A short way of saying "Recruiting" (as in recruiting guild members).

Rawr

An alternative spelling of "roar"

Repot

Buying potions from the nearest store (usually a town).

Rest-Kill

Rest-Kill (RK) is other player induces or knock-back monsters to attack you when you are resting.

ROFL

Rolling On the Floor Laughing - used when someone says something so funny, you are literally on the floor laughing.

ROFLMFAO

Rolling On the Floor Laughing My F***ing Ass off - used when someone says something so funny, you are literally on the floor laughing and your ass is falling off.

Rog

Jr. or Crimson Balrog.

Rush

Exitting a PQ with the intention of re-entering immediately. Usually done after Kerning PQ's Bonus stage.

S

SA

Soul Arrow - Bowman Skill

Sader

Shortened and common name to refer to Crusaders.

Sanc

Sanctuary Entrance series of maps.

SB

Slash Blast - Warrior Skill

Savage Blow - Bandit Skill

SC

Silver Crow - Bowman Crossbow

Sin

Assassin character class

Sleepy

Sleepywood

Sniping

Attacking a monster from range to prevent taking damage.

Soul

Soul Arrow - Bowman Skill

SP

Shadow Partner - Hermit Skill

sp?

Signifies that the persion is not certain of a word's spelling. Ex. That was one wierd (sp?) monster.

Spears

Taurospear - Enemy found on the way to Jr. Balrog.

SR

Shining Ray - Priest Skill

STFU

Shut the fuck up

SW

Sleepywood - The town or the web site www.sleepywood.net

"S>"

Shorthand used to mean "Selling".

T

TMI

Too much info, used when someone says too much info causing them to feel uncomfortable.

Track

Repeatedly using the /find command on a player to follow their movement, often used in PQs to determine a current party's location.

Train

If somebody ask for train, it means who want to party with players in higher level and gain much EXP from it. For an effective training, it is suggested to party with player at least 5 level higher than you. But you should note that if the trainer kills monster not for your level, you may not gain any EXP.

Transfer

Using the storage feature to move items from one character to another on the same world/account.

"T>"

Shorthand used to mean "Trading"

U

U

You.

V

V2k

Vaulter 2000 - Bowman Bow

Vac

Vaccum Hacks, brings all monsters to a specific location. Wizet bans players who do this.

Vending

Going AFK while using a Shop Permit to sell items while inactive. (i.e. overnight)

Vic

Victoria Island

Vikings

Spirit Vikings, high-level Ludibrium monsters.

Gigantic Spirit Vikings, high-level Ludibrium monsters near Spirit Vikings.

Viper

Red Viper - Bowman Bow

W

WB

Welcome Back

W/G or WG

Work Gloves

WK

White Knight - The Third Job for page

WOMG

Whoa Oh My God - Another variant of OMG.

WTC

What The Crap (uncommon)

WTF

What The F**k

WTH

What The Hell/Heck

WW

Werewolf - Enemy found in Wolf Territory I and II

X

XBow

Crossbow

XBowman

Crossbowman - Archer who specializes in Crossbows.

Y

Y

Why

Yepe, Yepi, YnP

Yeti & Pepe combined - Enemy found in Ice Valley II in Ossyria.

Z

Z(1-4)

Refers to a specific Forest of Dead Trees map, from I to IV.

ZB

Zombie.

ZHelm

Short for Zakum Helm, an untradable item dropped by a boss.

ZLupins

Zombie Lupins.

ZS, ZShroom

Zombie Mushroom

Zombies

Coolie Zombies in the Forest of Dead Trees maps deep in El Nath.

Minor Zombies just after the Forest of Dead Trees maps, in the Dead Mine maps.

ZOMG

Zoh My God - Another way of saying OMG