acronymania
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acronymania (uncountable)
- The enthusiastic creation and use of acronyms.
- 1999, Ashton B. Carter, William James Perry, Preventive Defense: A New Security Strategy for America, page 21:
- In the Pentagon's "acronymania," the plane's official name, the National Emergency Airborne Command Post — NEACP, pronounced "kneecap" — had been changed to NAOP, National Airborne Operations Center.
- 2002, Richard Stern, What Is What Was, page 196:
- Some of that mastodon meat is in the essays—tennis, teens, television—and some of its manner, too—foot-notery, abbreviations, acronymania.
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enthusiastic creation and use of acronyms
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