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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | YABA /ya'b*/ n. [Cambridge] Yet Another Bloody Acronym. Whenever some program is being named, someone invariably suggests that it be given a name that is acronymic. The response from those with a trace of originality is to remark ironically that the proposed name would then be `YABA-compatible'. Also used in response to questions like "What is WYSIWYG?" See also TLA. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
YABA | English | Yet Another Bloody Acronym | Computer - (slang) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: YABA |
| Specialty definitions using "YABA": three-letter acronym ♦ YA-, Yaba Monkey Tumor Virus, Yatapoxvirus, Yet Another. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "YABA" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Turkish (fan, fork, hayfork, prong, winnow, wooden fork, wooden winnowing fork). |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expression using "YABA": Yaba Monkey Tumor Virus. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
yaba | 78 |
florida yaba | 11 |
bowling yaba | 11 |
texas yaba | 9 |
recipe yaba | 4 |
laredo yaba | 4 |
make yaba | 3 |
ohio yaba | 3 |
drug yaba | 3 |
daba doo yaba | 2 |
college technology yaba | 2 |
tournament yaba | 2 |
college queens yaba | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-y" | |
-1 letter: aba, aby, baa, bay. | |
-2 letters: aa, ab, ay, ba, by, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-y" | |
+2 letters: abbacy, ambary, banyan, baryta, bayamo, bayard, bayman, kabaya. | |
+3 letters: abeyant, abysmal, abyssal, affably, amboyna, amiably, attaboy, babysat, banally, banyans, barytas, basally, bathyal, bayamos, bayards, capably, kabayas, mangaby, payable, payably, payback, ratably, sabayon, salably, sassaby, sayable, taxably, wallaby. | |
+4 letters: abasedly, abeyance, abeyancy, aborally, adorably, amboynas, amenably, amicably, arguably, avowably, backstay, backyard, balladry, ballyrag, banality, barnyard, barratry, basilary, bastardy, bayadeer, bayadere, bearably, betrayal, bioassay, blamably, blatancy, boatyard, cableway, capybara, carbamyl, carbaryl, chambray, claybank, dahabiya, damnably, daybreak, galabiya, grayback, labially, laudably, layabout, maccaboy, mangabey, palpably, passably, payables, paybacks, placably, playable, playback, rateably, readably, rubaiyat, sabayons, saleably, salvably, satiably, scalably, swayable, swayback, valuably, variably. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)59 41 42 41 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.--. .- -... .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01011001 01000001 01000010 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)Y A B A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0059 0041 0042 0041 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)59353635 |
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