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Word Shortenings Quiz #1

Guess the long form of these shortened words.
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Last updated: December 11, 2014
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First submittedJanuary 3, 2012
Times taken91,258
Average score83.3%
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Camo
Camouflage
Photo
Photograph
Math
Mathematics
Ad
Advertisement
Admin
Administrator
Ammo
Ammunition
Phone
Telephone
Info
Information
Intro
Introduction
Tux
Tuxedo
Short
Long
Lab
Laboratory
Labrador
Gym
Gymnasium
Limo
Limousine
Max
Maximum
Memo
Memorandum
Rehab
Rehabilitation
Sax
Saxophone
Ump
Umpire
Veggie
Vegetable
Short
Long
Vet
Veteran
Veterinarian
Vocab
Vocabulary
Zine
Magazine
Blog
Weblog
Flu
Influenza
Doc
Doctor
Hippo
Hippopotamus
Chimp
Chimpanzee
Disco
Discotheque
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Level 57
Jan 3, 2012
Couldn't admin also be administration?
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Level 28
Jan 3, 2012
Magazine and weblog...my two misses.
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Level 73
Apr 15, 2021
Never heard "zine" being used before but just about managed to guess it. Same as "zin" on the other one actually.
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Level 68
Sep 22, 2021
I've seen fanzine for fan magazine or webzine for web magazin. Maybe it's a suffix rather than a word of its own?
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Level 59
May 8, 2022
First thing I guessed was Zinfandel, lol.
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Level 35
Jan 27, 2022
didn't ask G ratio + L + I live in Kamanahalli
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Level 58
Oct 19, 2022
what
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Level ∞
Jan 3, 2012
Added administration and document as acceptable answers.
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Level 69
Dec 5, 2019
along the same lines, could rehabilitate be accepted for rehab? I have heard rehab used as a verb on occasion, for example "He'll be out for 2 weeks to rehab his injured ankle." In this case I believe it's short for rehabilitate instead of rehabilitation.
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Level 8
Jan 3, 2012
19/30; english isn't my native :/
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Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
Same and 29/30 many of these are not just in english ( ok you do need the full english spelling ofcourse) like info and lab and intro.
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Level 29
Mar 29, 2022
25/30 I forgot how to spell Hippopotamus. I kept typing hippotamus.
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Level 45
Jan 3, 2012
29/30. Missed ump. Never heard anyone say zine, but managed to guess it. It's kinda worrying that some people don't know ones as simple as 'veggie'.
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Level 48
Apr 14, 2012
should be worrying that some people have never heard ump
+13
Level 78
May 12, 2014
Why? It's called a referee in most games and "umpire" only in strange American games.. :) And then to make the leap to an abbreviation... I got it, but I've never heard of the abbreviated version.
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Level 38
Aug 20, 2014
Ump is almost never used. Especially when compared to "ref" which is ubiquitous.
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Level 84
Jan 23, 2015
My father used to umpire for fun and a little extra money and I heard the term a lot.
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Level 78
Oct 18, 2019
Australian Rules Football has umpires, not referees
+1
Level 59
May 24, 2020
I have never heard the word “umpire” in my life
+2
Level 75
Oct 27, 2020
^ and now you have. Isn't it good to learn new words, even if they are pretty common?!
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Level 56
Apr 15, 2021
Not only have I never heard "ump", the full word didn't help me either. I don't think a lot of non-native-english-speakers have ever heard of that...
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Level 74
Jan 16, 2022
@sillie "strange American games"... like cricket? Or tennis? Or Ozzie rules football? Or volleyball? 😆
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Level 59
May 8, 2022
I mean, those are strange British games, but the point still stands.
+19
Level 57
May 1, 2014
Almost no word annoys me more than "zine." WTF?
+14
Level 86
May 6, 2014
Never in my life have I heard someone use the word "zine". I knew what they meant, but this seems a stretch for a quiz like this.
+10
Level 84
Jan 23, 2015
We say "Mag" often, but I've also never heard "Zine." Still managed to guess it, but it was weird for me.
+3
Level 84
Jan 23, 2015
Ive heard it a lot tho agree its more used for fanzines than traditional magazines.
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Level 84
Jan 23, 2015
or, these days, web 'zines
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Level 74
Jan 23, 2015
I got it right but I have never heard someone say zine.
+1
Level 43
Jun 1, 2015
I guessed what it was, but have only ever heard and used mag as an abbreviation for magazine.
+1
Level 74
Oct 24, 2018
I've got a long list of words that annoy me more than 'zine:

normalcy, agreeance, majorly, purposely, literally, absolutely ...

+1
Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
Totally? or worse, totes.... I hate abbreviations of words like that.. fab or fabs ughhh. or amazeballs.... so many stupid ones..
+1
Level 73
Apr 15, 2021
We have to use zine because of that movie called "The Mag".
+2
Level 42
Aug 26, 2014
I tried vegetarian since that's what people use the word veggie here
+2
Level 84
Jan 23, 2015
I used to crack up every time I'd overhear one of my British coworkers request some "veg" in the cafeteria. Or.. canteen, as they called it.
+2
Level 52
Jul 1, 2015
They probably just couldn't spell it. I think one reason why it gets shortened to "veggie' is because its easier to spell.
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Level 62
Jan 4, 2012
100% with 3:11 left!
+1
Level 31
Jan 5, 2012
100% with 3:34 left!
+9
Level 12
Jan 6, 2012
Pretty sure I've never heard anyone say "zine" for magazine
+1
Level 61
May 10, 2012
Yeah that seems made up to me too.
+1
Level 27
Jan 27, 2015
I was thinking the same thing.
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Level 12
Jun 20, 2016
Its an 80's thing
+2
Level 68
Mar 14, 2014
It's very commonly used as a short for "fanzine", though, for those of us who are into that kind of thing ;) Star Trek fanzines, for instance.
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Level 76
May 23, 2014
I've heard of e-zine, too.
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Level 45
May 27, 2014
I am a Star Trek fanzine!

Data FTW!

I might be the only person who has ever said that. I felt weird.

But Data is awesome.

Spock is too.

But Data is awesomer.

I know it's not a word. Don't care.

Data is awesomest!

+3
Level 2
Sep 7, 2015
Dunno if you people are american but quite franctly the proper short name for magazine is mag. Am I right?
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Level 31
Jun 5, 2016
Mag is definitely more common than "Zine"
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Level 73
Apr 15, 2021
They had to start using the term "zine" after the movie "The Mag" came out.
+1
Level 28
Jan 6, 2012
100% with 2:19 left, but that's impressive seeing as how i just necked 5 beers. yup byt ches
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Level 32
Jan 7, 2012
I've witnessed people saying zine instead of magazine often enough to be aware of this word, so I can assure you that this isn't something the quizmaster made up ;)

But "ump"... Just the mention of sports make me yawn, so for all I know, it could have been made up for the purpose of this quiz :D (that is what the referee is called in certain sports, right?)

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Level 17
Oct 1, 2012
Yeah, it's in baseball. An umpire is the person who calls "safe" or "out" and all that jazz!
+1
Level 31
Jun 5, 2016
Tennis as well, didn't know about baseball
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Level 45
Jun 23, 2016
There's also an umpire in football.
+1
Level 59
May 8, 2022
But everyone calls them a referee.
+1
Level 39
Nov 28, 2020
Cricket, Softball, and Baseball are the main well known ones
+2
Level 61
Jan 10, 2012
I knew Discotheque because I did French at school...
+1
Level 37
Jan 18, 2012
Damn memo, i tried memorendom, just making a word up, didn't realise i was so close!!
+1
Level 39
Feb 3, 2012
Can we just get rid of blogs so we don't have to worry about there abbreviations?
+4
Level 31
Jun 5, 2016
Can we just get rid of bad grammar so we don't have to worry about correcting it?
+1
Level 15
Mar 26, 2012
25/30 not bad for the first time.
+1
Level 43
Sep 7, 2012
Blog is not really a shorten version of a word but a portmanteau, which is a combination of words forming a new word using sounds from each original word.
+6
Level 68
Dec 9, 2016
blog is still the short form of the portmanteau "weblog"
+3
Level 43
Sep 7, 2012
Never heard zine used, but have heard of mag as a shorten version of magazine.
+1
Level 56
Sep 14, 2012
I almost missed Discotheque!!!
+2
Level 23
Sep 14, 2012
Oh lol. Couldn't spell Vet (animal doctor), Lab (not the dog) and Camo. XD!
+1
Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
I had quite a tough time with the vet too, but I got it (the 4th variation I think)
+1
Level 9
Sep 14, 2012
I spelt tuxedo tuxido and i knew the answer so can u make tuxido an acceptable answer
+2
Level 46
Dec 8, 2017
and camoflauge
+7
Level 37
Sep 14, 2012
zine???? everyone shortens magazine to 'mag' ... not 'zine'
+1
Level 34
Jan 13, 2013
agreed
+1
Level 17
Oct 1, 2012
Great quiz! Feel like a nerd cause I got all these...with 4:06 to spare.
+1
Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
all were very easy but memo... I did not get that one... tried all sort of stuff like memorynote, memoires etc
+2
Level 34
Jan 13, 2013
Never heard "Zine" for magazine.
+2
Level 68
Aug 18, 2016
Same.
+1
Level 20
Apr 24, 2013
gym could also be gymnastics, that's what we use it for over here?
+1
Level 60
Jan 18, 2018
yeah but you go to the gym but not do gym
+2
Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
In my country that is exactly what you do, and I think that is the same for talia/ seems to be what talia is saying aswell.
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Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
ps we dont go to the gym ( that sounds so weird, you have gymclass as a kid at school)>> The place you go to work out is a sportschool.

We have the word gymnaseum as a (direction of) school. If you have latin and greek on your curriculum.

Btw all these words come from the same place and is a "school" where the ancient greek (besides learning) used to excercise, naked. It literally means, place to be naked.

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Level 38
Sep 26, 2013
i got 28 out of 30.
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Level 32
Oct 9, 2013
missed veteran.. and i am one. what an idiot
+1
Level 18
Feb 11, 2014
hero
+1
Level 52
Nov 13, 2013
Somehow I only missed Ad ahaha, kept thinking addition or after death haha, i know that's AD though :D
+1
Level 74
Dec 11, 2013
Actually AD does not mean after death. It is a Latin abbreviation for Anno Domini which means the year of our Lord. Therefore BC is before the birth of Jesus, AD is after his birth.
+1
Level 45
Jun 16, 2014
Yeah, once somebody was reading aloud from a National Geographic thing, talking about a pharaoh who built something(this was a long time ago, so I don't remember the details) in some date A.D., and somebody else asked 'What's A.D. mean?' and they said 'after death', and now I look back and think how did I not catch that, it's so ridiculous! He can't build something after his own death!
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Level 84
Jan 23, 2015
Well he was also supposedly born during the reign of Herod and Herod died in 4 BC.
+1
Level 69
Mar 24, 2015
Yeah, leave it to our calendar to mess up by five or six whole years... better than the Julian, I guess.
+1
Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
em... I am pretty sure the death refered to was jesus' one. (while a.d is actually counting from the birth of jesus, so it is not that ridiculous at all.

Seems kind of obvious to me that people thinking a.d is after death are talking about jesus...

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Level 15
Jan 29, 2014
I didn't get some because I couldn't spell them. I need to go back to school I guess. D:
+1
Level 18
Feb 11, 2014
I've never heard of anyone reading a "zine"
+1
Level 68
Mar 14, 2014
I can't believe I got 29/30 but managed to miss "Ad".

*facepalm*

+1
Level 40
Apr 19, 2014
I kept trying to type Ammunation for Ammunition! Grand Theft Auto has seeped too far into my brain...
+1
Level 52
May 4, 2014
got all except ump, ive never heard that used and i dont know what an umpire is.
+1
Level 52
Jul 1, 2015
An umpire is a referee.
+1
Level 31
Jun 5, 2016
Referee for Tennis and apparently Baseball too. Probably some others...
+1
Level 33
May 15, 2014
Got 30/30, but I knew 26/30. Had to look up Labrador, Magazine, Discotheque, and Weblog
+4
Level 78
Jan 23, 2015
Got 30/30, but I knew 0/30. Had to Google every single one of them. I cheat on my taxes, too.
+1
Level 38
Aug 20, 2014
I would agree with EVERYONE ELSE that zine is short for fanzine, not magazine. "I-I-I-I-I-I wanna publish zines! And rage against machines!" Harvey Danger was talking fanzines there.
+1
Level 17
Nov 26, 2014
25/30
+1
Level 69
Jan 23, 2015
I missed phone but got discotheque. What am I doing with my life?
+2
Level 69
Jan 23, 2015
Couldn't "gym" also by gymnast or gymnastics?
+1
Level 76
Nov 23, 2015
"I've joined a gymnast?" "I'm working out at the gymnastics today?" No, in the US gym is definitely a place.
+3
Level 70
Dec 5, 2015
In the UK we do use "gym" as a shortening of "gymnastics". "She's very good at gym." would certainly be a possible sentence.
+2
Level 31
Jun 5, 2016
Agreed ^^
+2
Level 76
Dec 5, 2019
You've taught me something new. In the US I've never heard a gymnast called a gym.
+1
Level 44
Jan 23, 2015
I missed the phone call on this.. I kept trying phonogram.. facepalm!
+1
Level 84
Jan 23, 2015
All too easy.
+1
Level 57
Jan 23, 2015
Should accept Labour for lab. British abbreviation for the second largest political party.
+2
Level 81
Mar 21, 2015
I think there's a distinction between an abbreviation and a "shortened word". Lab for labour is just a written abbreviation; no-one would actually say "a lab politician". All the ones in the quiz are things people say as well as write (except possibly "ump", which I've never heard anywhere else).
+1
Level 75
Oct 27, 2020
But you will agree that Lib-Lab is a thing, right?
+1
Level 81
Jan 23, 2015
Might consider adding Administrative as well for admin. That was my first try.
+1
Level 53
Dec 9, 2016
I agree. Admin Asst or doing admin work.
+1
Level 56
Jan 23, 2015
Missed memo and rehab
+1
Level 79
Jan 23, 2015
Zine?
+1
Level 39
Jan 23, 2015
I got all of them pretty quickly... except "phone". I could not for the life of me think of the word "telephone". I even tried "phonograph" :/
+2
Level 23
Jan 24, 2015
Shouldn't veterinary be used for vet
+1
Level 80
Feb 16, 2015
In the UK, 'Lab' is used as a short form for the Labour Party.

I think that you should allow 'Fanzine' for "Zine". I've only ever heard the expression Zine used in that context. Neat quiz. Thanks! :)

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Level 20
Apr 11, 2015
Oops, put Saxyphone, not Saxophone.
+2
Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
sexyphone..
+2
Level 56
Jun 9, 2015
Can you accept camoflauge
+2
Level 52
Jul 1, 2015
That's exactly how I spelled it for years. It seems more phonetic. Took me forever to remember the correct spelling.
+1
Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
no , you say camuuu flage. in the full word you dont say it as an o like in camo (kemmo)
+1
Level 61
Aug 19, 2021
Ok now that just sounds silly
+1
Level 52
Jul 1, 2015
I had no idea before what blog and disco were short for. Honestly, I had no idea they were short for anything (though I knew what they were). Got the rest.
+1
Level 76
Nov 23, 2015
Easy peasy and fun for me.
+1
Level 33
Dec 30, 2015
"weblog" was the death of me...
+1
Level 47
Jan 18, 2016
100 percent in 3 34
+1
Level 47
Jan 18, 2016
IT RELOADED IN THE FINAL QUESTION
+1
Level 48
Apr 7, 2016
In the UK, Lab is short for Labour. Can this be accepted?
+1
Level 77
Aug 16, 2016
In the UK we call Veterinarians Veterinary Surgeons. Please could you add this as a possible answer. thanks
+3
Level 45
Aug 28, 2016
Panic! at the Discotheque
+1
Level 52
Nov 26, 2016
3.24 left; found this one pretty straight forward, just clumsy typing fingers
+1
Level 76
Jan 31, 2017
With the abbreviation that a certain Google program has made popular, I would consider adding "document" for "Doc."
+2
Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
google program?? you know computers were around before google..
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Level 71
Feb 14, 2017
It has been commented on several times, but MAG is short for magazine except in some weird underworld where everyone says ZINE.
+1
Level 58
Feb 14, 2017
ad can also be anno domine
+1
Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
no that would be A.D.
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Level 28
Feb 22, 2017
Ok, so it was easy... I got 2 wrongs, but I don't accept it. I MEAN LIKE, who the heck calls Magazines Zines?
+1
Level 58
Mar 10, 2017
I has 73% and only got 2 points
+1
Level 57
Mar 29, 2017
Ha. Get 'em all....but it took a minute for "admin" cuz I kept thinking of college admin being the administration building....not administrator. Oh, well.....Oh, and zine was easy; rarely used but I've see it enough to know what it meant.
+2
Level 73
May 1, 2017
Possibly "document" could also work for "doc"?
+1
Level 78
May 25, 2017
Tried veterinary surgeon and veterinary doctor - I think they should be accepted, specially for us Brits. I've never hard of Labrador being shortened to lab.
+1
Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
I think I have mainly heard it when being paired with black. I have a black lab. Not sure if lab is used on its own.

Funny pic of labs explained

+1
Level 59
May 25, 2017
Never heard "Zine" before. Very odd.
+1
Level 32
Nov 9, 2017
If you are including hippo, you have to include rhino.
+2
Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
why? these arent all the abbreviations in the world, and hippo is legitimately there..
+1
Level 28
Feb 4, 2018
Never heard of zine for magazine, and didn't get blog either. Otherwise all ok.
+1
Level 50
Feb 7, 2018
i guessed zine as i could only think of magazine ending in zine, but i have ony ever head of shorterning a magazine as mag
+1
Level 34
May 24, 2018
Never knew there was such a thing as a 'discotheque'. I heard it as 'disco' 100% of the time. Guess that is one new word into my English vocabulary.
+2
Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
That is where it comes from, but indeed this is one of those cases where the original word has fallen into disuse nearly completely.
+1
Level 69
Aug 25, 2018
Lab in England is short for the political party Labour.
+1
Level 71
Dec 5, 2019
Only in written usage, people never say Lab as in................. " I voted for Lab this year" or " He's a member of the Lab party"
+1
Level 49
Oct 7, 2018
Got them all eventually tho I'd never heard a magazine called a zine!
+1
Level 46
Nov 12, 2018
since when has ANYONE said 'zine'???
+1
Level 66
Jun 17, 2019
*mouth dropped to the floor emoji* almost noone knows what blog is ??? in this time that it is so common ( when blogs and the word for it first came into use I can understand. but now every 6 yo seems to blog or vlog ( videoblog... now you know that one too...)
+2
Level 69
Dec 5, 2019
I think the word blog took over so fast that a lot of people never realized it was short for anything, they just assumed it was a made up word.
+1
Level 66
Jun 27, 2019
Smashed it, but being an Aussie helps with all that slang.
+1
Level 77
Dec 5, 2019
Arrgghhh.... Got 29/30 - I missed 'blog' but typed in 'web blog' - so close!!
+1
Level 67
Dec 5, 2019
Great quiz! We need more like this.

However, "vocab" should be the first clue.

+1
Level 76
Mar 13, 2020
I'm pretty sure that lab is also short for labia?
+1
Level 41
Apr 13, 2020
I had no idea that blog stood for weblog!
+1
Level 75
Jul 3, 2020
Many people who own Landrover Discovery motor vehicles call their car a 'Disco'. Right or wrong, they do.
+1
Level 61
Aug 19, 2021
Not very familiar with a "zine" but okay
+1
Level 77
Dec 2, 2021
I think that the time you'd save by saying "ump" instead of "umpire" would be vastly less than the time you'd lose having to explain what the hell you were talking about.
+1
Level 72
Apr 18, 2022
Very fun--I especially enjoyed the ones that had more than one answer.
+1
Level 48
May 8, 2022
I put chimpansee about 10 times and never realized it's spelled chimpanzee in English
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Level 57
Dec 6, 2022
labyrinth