Word Shortenings Quiz #1

Guess the long form of these shortened words.

Quiz by

Rate:

Featured Quiz

Last updated: December 11, 2014

You have not attempted this quiz yet.

More quiz info >>

First submitted	January 3, 2012
Times taken	91,258
Average score	83.3%
Rating	4.14

Quiz and answer stats >>

Friends stats >>

5:00

Enter long version here:

/ 30 guessed

The quiz is paused. You have remaining.

Scoring
You scored / = %

      This beats or equals
      % of test takers
      also scored 100%
      
The average score is 

        Your high score is
        
      
Your fastest time is 
more stats >>
friends stats >>

Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats ...

Short	Long
Camo	Camouflage
Photo	Photograph
Math	Mathematics
Ad	Advertisement
Admin	Administrator
Ammo	Ammunition
Phone	Telephone
Info	Information
Intro	Introduction
Tux	Tuxedo

Short	Long
Lab	Laboratory
Lab	Labrador
Gym	Gymnasium
Limo	Limousine
Max	Maximum
Memo	Memorandum
Rehab	Rehabilitation
Sax	Saxophone
Ump	Umpire
Veggie	Vegetable

Short	Long
Vet	Veteran
Vet	Veterinarian
Vocab	Vocabulary
Zine	Magazine
Blog	Weblog
Flu	Influenza
Doc	Doctor
Hippo	Hippopotamus
Chimp	Chimpanzee
Disco	Discotheque

Level 57

Jan 3, 2012

Couldn't admin also be administration?

Level 28

Jan 3, 2012

Magazine and weblog...my two misses.

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.

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?

Level 59

May 8, 2022

First thing I guessed was Zinfandel, lol.

Level 35

Jan 27, 2022

didn't ask G ratio + L + I live in Kamanahalli

Level 58

Oct 19, 2022

what

Level ∞

Jan 3, 2012

Added administration and document as acceptable answers.

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.

Level 8

Jan 3, 2012

19/30; english isn't my native :/

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.

Level 29

Mar 29, 2022

25/30 I forgot how to spell Hippopotamus. I kept typing hippotamus.

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'.

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.

Level 38

Aug 20, 2014

Ump is almost never used. Especially when compared to "ref" which is ubiquitous.

Level 84

Jan 23, 2015

My father used to umpire for fun and a little extra money and I heard the term a lot.

Level 78

Oct 18, 2019

Australian Rules Football has umpires, not referees

Level 59

May 24, 2020

I have never heard the word “umpire” in my life

Level 75

Oct 27, 2020

^ and now you have. Isn't it good to learn new words, even if they are pretty common?!

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...

Level 74

Jan 16, 2022

@sillie "strange American games"... like cricket? Or tennis? Or Ozzie rules football? Or volleyball? 😆

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.

Level 84

Jan 23, 2015

Ive heard it a lot tho agree its more used for fanzines than traditional magazines.

Level 84

Jan 23, 2015

or, these days, web 'zines

Level 74

Jan 23, 2015

I got it right but I have never heard someone say zine.

Level 43

Jun 1, 2015

I guessed what it was, but have only ever heard and used mag as an abbreviation for magazine.

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 ...

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..

Level 73

Apr 15, 2021

We have to use zine because of that movie called "The Mag".

Level 42

Aug 26, 2014

I tried vegetarian since that's what people use the word veggie here

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.

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.

Level 62

Jan 4, 2012

100% with 3:11 left!

Level 31

Jan 5, 2012

100% with 3:34 left!

Level 12

Jan 6, 2012

Pretty sure I've never heard anyone say "zine" for magazine

Level 61

May 10, 2012

Yeah that seems made up to me too.

Level 27

Jan 27, 2015

I was thinking the same thing.

Level 12

Jun 20, 2016

Its an 80's thing

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.

Level 76

May 23, 2014

I've heard of e-zine, too.

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!

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?

Level 31

Jun 5, 2016

Mag is definitely more common than "Zine"

Level 73

Apr 15, 2021

They had to start using the term "zine" after the movie "The Mag" came out.

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

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?)

Level 17

Oct 1, 2012

Yeah, it's in baseball. An umpire is the person who calls "safe" or "out" and all that jazz!

Level 31

Jun 5, 2016

Tennis as well, didn't know about baseball

Level 45

Jun 23, 2016

There's also an umpire in football.

Level 59

May 8, 2022

But everyone calls them a referee.

Level 39

Nov 28, 2020

Cricket, Softball, and Baseball are the main well known ones

Level 61

Jan 10, 2012

I knew Discotheque because I did French at school...

Level 37

Jan 18, 2012

Damn memo, i tried memorendom, just making a word up, didn't realise i was so close!!

Level 39

Feb 3, 2012

Can we just get rid of blogs so we don't have to worry about there abbreviations?

Level 31

Jun 5, 2016

Can we just get rid of bad grammar so we don't have to worry about correcting it?

Level 15

Mar 26, 2012

25/30 not bad for the first time.

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.

Level 68

Dec 9, 2016

blog is still the short form of the portmanteau "weblog"

Level 43

Sep 7, 2012

Never heard zine used, but have heard of mag as a shorten version of magazine.

Level 56

Sep 14, 2012

I almost missed Discotheque!!!

Level 23

Sep 14, 2012

Oh lol. Couldn't spell Vet (animal doctor), Lab (not the dog) and Camo. XD!

Level 66

Jun 17, 2019

I had quite a tough time with the vet too, but I got it (the 4th variation I think)

Level 9

Sep 14, 2012

I spelt tuxedo tuxido and i knew the answer so can u make tuxido an acceptable answer

Level 46

Dec 8, 2017

and camoflauge

Level 37

Sep 14, 2012

zine???? everyone shortens magazine to 'mag' ... not 'zine'

Level 34

Jan 13, 2013

agreed

Level 17

Oct 1, 2012

Great quiz! Feel like a nerd cause I got all these...with 4:06 to spare.

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

Level 34

Jan 13, 2013

Never heard "Zine" for magazine.

Level 68

Aug 18, 2016

Same.

Level 20

Apr 24, 2013

gym could also be gymnastics, that's what we use it for over here?

Level 60

Jan 18, 2018

yeah but you go to the gym but not do gym

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.

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.

Level 38

Sep 26, 2013

i got 28 out of 30.

Level 32

Oct 9, 2013

missed veteran.. and i am one. what an idiot

Level 18

Feb 11, 2014

hero

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

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.

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!

Level 84

Jan 23, 2015

Well he was also supposedly born during the reign of Herod and Herod died in 4 BC.

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.

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...

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:

Level 18

Feb 11, 2014

I've never heard of anyone reading a "zine"

Level 68

Mar 14, 2014

I can't believe I got 29/30 but managed to miss "Ad".

*facepalm*

Level 40

Apr 19, 2014

I kept trying to type Ammunation for Ammunition! Grand Theft Auto has seeped too far into my brain...

Level 52

May 4, 2014

got all except ump, ive never heard that used and i dont know what an umpire is.

Level 52

Jul 1, 2015

An umpire is a referee.

Level 31

Jun 5, 2016

Referee for Tennis and apparently Baseball too. Probably some others...

Level 33

May 15, 2014

Got 30/30, but I knew 26/30. Had to look up Labrador, Magazine, Discotheque, and Weblog

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.

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.

Level 17

Nov 26, 2014

25/30

Level 69

Jan 23, 2015

I missed phone but got discotheque. What am I doing with my life?

Level 69

Jan 23, 2015

Couldn't "gym" also by gymnast or gymnastics?

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.

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.

Level 31

Jun 5, 2016

Agreed ^^

Level 76

Dec 5, 2019

You've taught me something new. In the US I've never heard a gymnast called a gym.

Level 44

Jan 23, 2015

I missed the phone call on this.. I kept trying phonogram.. facepalm!

Level 84

Jan 23, 2015

All too easy.

Level 57

Jan 23, 2015

Should accept Labour for lab. British abbreviation for the second largest political party.

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).

Level 75

Oct 27, 2020

But you will agree that Lib-Lab is a thing, right?

Level 81

Jan 23, 2015

Might consider adding Administrative as well for admin. That was my first try.

Level 53

Dec 9, 2016

I agree. Admin Asst or doing admin work.

Level 56

Jan 23, 2015

Missed memo and rehab

Level 79

Jan 23, 2015

Zine?

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" :/

Level 23

Jan 24, 2015

Shouldn't veterinary be used for vet

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! :)

Level 20

Apr 11, 2015

Oops, put Saxyphone, not Saxophone.

Level 66

Jun 17, 2019

sexyphone..

Level 56

Jun 9, 2015

Can you accept camoflauge

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.

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)

Level 61

Aug 19, 2021

Ok now that just sounds silly

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.

Level 76

Nov 23, 2015

Easy peasy and fun for me.

Level 33

Dec 30, 2015

"weblog" was the death of me...

Level 47

Jan 18, 2016

100 percent in 3 34

Level 47

Jan 18, 2016

IT RELOADED IN THE FINAL QUESTION

Level 48

Apr 7, 2016

In the UK, Lab is short for Labour. Can this be accepted?

Level 77

Aug 16, 2016

In the UK we call Veterinarians Veterinary Surgeons. Please could you add this as a possible answer. thanks

Level 45

Aug 28, 2016

Panic! at the Discotheque

Level 52

Nov 26, 2016

3.24 left; found this one pretty straight forward, just clumsy typing fingers

Level 76

Jan 31, 2017

With the abbreviation that a certain Google program has made popular, I would consider adding "document" for "Doc."

Level 66

Jun 17, 2019

google program?? you know computers were around before google..

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.

Level 58

Feb 14, 2017

ad can also be anno domine

Level 66

Jun 17, 2019

no that would be A.D.

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?

Level 58

Mar 10, 2017

I has 73% and only got 2 points

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.

Level 73

May 1, 2017

Possibly "document" could also work for "doc"?

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.

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

Level 59

May 25, 2017

Never heard "Zine" before. Very odd.

Level 32

Nov 9, 2017

If you are including hippo, you have to include rhino.

Level 66

Jun 17, 2019

why? these arent all the abbreviations in the world, and hippo is legitimately there..

Level 28

Feb 4, 2018

Never heard of zine for magazine, and didn't get blog either. Otherwise all ok.

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

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.

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.

Level 69

Aug 25, 2018

Lab in England is short for the political party Labour.

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"

Level 49

Oct 7, 2018

Got them all eventually tho I'd never heard a magazine called a zine!

Level 46

Nov 12, 2018

since when has ANYONE said 'zine'???

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...)

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.

Level 66

Jun 27, 2019

Smashed it, but being an Aussie helps with all that slang.

Level 77

Dec 5, 2019

Arrgghhh.... Got 29/30 - I missed 'blog' but typed in 'web blog' - so close!!

Level 67

Dec 5, 2019

Great quiz! We need more like this.

However, "vocab" should be the first clue.

Level 76

Mar 13, 2020

I'm pretty sure that lab is also short for labia?

Level 41

Apr 13, 2020

I had no idea that blog stood for weblog!

Level 75

Jul 3, 2020

Many people who own Landrover Discovery motor vehicles call their car a 'Disco'. Right or wrong, they do.

Level 61

Aug 19, 2021

Not very familiar with a "zine" but okay

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.

Level 72

Apr 18, 2022

Very fun--I especially enjoyed the ones that had more than one answer.

Level 48

May 8, 2022

I put chimpansee about 10 times and never realized it's spelled chimpanzee in English

Level 57

Dec 6, 2022

labyrinth

Countries of the World Quiz

US States Quiz

Fast Typing 1 to 100

Countries of Europe Quiz

Europe Map Quiz

NBA Teams Quiz

Fast Typing A to Z

Fifty US States in One Minute

Fast Typing Test - 100 WPM Challenge

40 Historical People that Everyone Should Know

U.S. States by First Two Letters in 30 Seconds

Middle East Map Quiz

Countries that Start with L

NBA MVPs Quiz

U.S. Baby Girl Names by Decade

Save Your Progress

Word