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Coupon Acronyms & Abbreviations

by MrCoupon on August 25, 2010

Ever feel like you’re lost reading Frugal by Nature? My wife and I joke that couponing is a language that must be learned, just like Spanish or French! So to make it easy for you, here is a cheat sheet of commonly used coupon acronyms & abbreviations!

AR - After Rebate
AYOR – At Your Own Risk
B1G1 or BOGO – Buy One Get One Free
B5G1 – Buy FIVE Get One Free
BC/AC – Before/After Coupons
Blinkie – SmartSource machine with a red blinking light on it. Coupons are thus referred to as ‘ Blinkies’
BTFE – Box Tops for Education
CAT – Coupon that prints from a Catalina machine at the register.
CC – Concealed Cash
CH – Clearing House
CLFE – Campbell’s Labels For Education
C/O - Cents Off
CRT – Cash register tape (receipt)
CYE – Check your email
DB – The Coupon Database
DEAD - Refers to a dead deal, or that the offer is no longer valid
DND – Do Not Double
ECB – Extra Care Buck (earned at CVS)
ENVIE – Envelope
ES - Easy Saver, seen at Walgreens rebate booklet
ETS – Excludes Trial Sizes
EX or X. – Expires on
FAR – Free after rebate
FBN – Frugal by Nature
FC - First class postage stamps
FL – Food Lion
FS – Forever Stamp
FS – Free Shipping
FSOT – For Sale or Trade
FWIW - For what it’s worth
GC - Gift Card
GDA – Good Deal Alert
GM – General Mills Insert, a booklet of coupons that appears in newspapers every month or two.
HBA - Health & Beauty Section in the store
HTH – Hope that Helps
IDSO – in desperate search of
INSERTS – Coupon booklets found in the Sunday paper
IMHO – in my humble opinion (there are variations of this, but that’s the most common!)
IMO - In My Opinion
IP – Internet Printable coupon
IRL – In Real Life
ISO – In Search Of (basically you need it)
IVC – Instant value coupons – seen in Walgreens rebate booklet
IVDSO - In very desperate search of
KWIM - Know What I Mean
LMK – Let Me Know
LOL - Laugh/Laughing Out Loud
MFR - Manufacturer
MIR - Mail In Rebate
MQ - Manufacturer coupon
MRP - Manufacturer’s retail price
NAZ - Name, address, zip code
NAZP# – Name, address, zip code, phone number
NED - No Expiration Date
NFN - No Form Needed
NIB - New in Box
NIP - New in Package
NP - No problem
NT WT - Net Weight
OAS - A Coupon that is good on one Purchase, Any Size
OASN – On A Side Note
OOP - Out Of Pocket
OOS - Out of Stock
OT - Off Topic
OYNO -On Your Next Order
P&G – Proctor & Gamble (Sunday Booklet Coupons)
Peelie - Coupon found attached to a product. You have to peel it off.
PITA - Pain in the *** (we use abbreviations for a reason!)
PLMK - Please Let Me Know
PM - Private Message
POP - Proof of purchase
PP - PayPal
PSA - Prices Starting At
Q - Coupon
QQ - Coupon Queen
RAOK - random act of kindness (means you will give the coupons away free)
RC - Rain-check
RP - Red Plum (Sunday Booklet Coupons) (formerly Valassis)
RR - Register Reward from Walgreens – use as a $ off coupon on your next purchase
SAHM - Stay At Home Mom
SAHW - Say At Home Wife
SASE - Self addressed stamped envelope
SCR - Rite Aid Single Check Rebate
SMP - Specially marked package
SRP - Suggested retail price
SS - Smart Source (Sunday Booklet Coupons)
STACKING - Often stores will allow the use of more than one coupon per item, IF the coupon itself does not restrict such usage. (Usually store Q + mfr Q)
SUPER DOUBLES or DOUBLES - coupons that are doubled $1 + in value (IE, a $1 coupon – $2, etc)
TEARPAD - A pad of forms/coupons found hanging from a store shelf or display
TIA - Thanks in Advance
TMF - Try Me Free – mail in rebate for full amount of product
TMI - Too much information
TRIPLE COUPON - A coupon that a grocery store triples in value
TRU - Toys R Us
TYVM - Thank You Very Much
UPC - Universal Product Code, barcode on the product
WAGS - Walgreens
WL - Wish list
WM - Walmart
WSL - While supplies last
WUC - WeUseCoupons.com (refers to the website)
WUCkie - Member of WUC
WYB - When You Buy
YGEM - You’ve got an email
YGPM - You’ve got a private message!
YMMV - Your Mileage May Vary (“Worked for me, may not work for you”)
YVW - You’re very welcome

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