Grocery Coupons Abbreviations, Acronyms & Terms

Grocery Coupons Abbreviations, Acronyms & TermsFollowing is a list of all the most commonly used grocery coupons abbreviations, acronyms, lingo and terms.

Armed with this basic knowledge, you will be ready to understand what all that stuff on your grocery coupons really means, and be able to discuss your coupons with others on nearly any forum or at any coupon group.





Grocery Coupons Jargon

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Acronym Meaning
$/1 Cents off when you buy one item.
$/2 Cents off when you buy two items.
AC After Coupon
Albies Albertsons a grocery store.
ASAV Any Size, Any Variety
AR After Rebate
AYOR At Your Own Risk
B&M Brick & Mortar, i.e. an actual store, as opposed to an online store.
B1G1 or BOGO Buy One Get One Free, i.e. if you purchase one item, you get the second item free.
B5G1 Buy Five Get One Free
BC/AC Before/After Coupons
BIL Brother-In-Law
Blinkie A coupon dispensing machine found in store’s aisles. Because the machines often have a red blinking light to attract attention, its coupons are thus referred to as ‘Blinkies’
BOGO or B1G1 Buy One Get One Free, i.e.  if you purchase one item, you get the second item free
BOLO Be On the Lookout
Bricks Refers to the program used when printing IP coupons
CC or CCash Concealed Cash.

Money concealed well inside paper before mailed. It is not easy to mail coins however so usually restricted to paper money

CDB Coupon Database
CH Clearing House
CLFE Campbell’s Labels For Education
C/O Cents Off an item
CRT Cash Register Tape (i.e. receipt). Often required as proof of purchase for mail-in rebates. See also DCRT
CYE Check Your Email
DB Coupon Database
DCRT Dated cash register tape, usually required for a rebate
DCRTC Dated cash register tape with the price circled, usually required for a rebate
DD Darling Daughter
DEAD Refers to a dead deal, or that the offer is no longer valid.
DH Darling Husband
DND Do Not Double
DNT Do Not Tripple
DS Darling Son
Dumpster Dive To dig in recycling bins or trash for extra coupon inserts
DW Darling Wife
ECB Extra Care Buck (applicable for CVS)
ENVIE Envelope
EPOP Each pay own postage (trading term)
ES Easy Saver (seen at Walgreens rebate booklet)
ESR EasySaver Rebate (Monthly rebate program at Walgreens)
ETA Edited to add
ETS Excludes Trial Sizes
EX or X Expires on
FAC Free After Coupon
FAQ Frequently asked questions. A question and answer style guide
FAR Free After Rebate
FC First Class postage stamps
FIL Father-In-Law
FL Either Food Lion, or a site Forum Leader
FLIP Food Lion Internet Printable. Printable coupon(s)
Free item coupon A coupon that is for a free product
FREES Manufacturer coupons for a free item.
These are generally issued to reimburse you for an item that was defective or unsatisfactory.

Sometimes used to refer to a coupon that when used with a current sale will make the product free

FS Free Shipping or Forever Stamp
FSI Free Standing Insert. The free Sunday paper coupon inserts
FSOT For Sale or Trade
FWIW For What It’s Worth
GC Gift Card/Gift Certificate
GDA Good Deal Alert
GM General Mills Insert, a booklet of coupons that appears in newspapers every month or two
Hangtag A coupon or form found hanging from a tag around the neck of a bottle or jar
HBA Health & Beauty Aid section in the store
HDA Hot deal alert or Home delivered ad
HGT See Hangtag
HL Have list. A list of coupons, forms and items that another member has to offer for trade
HT Harris Teeter grocery store, or Hangtag
HTH Hope This Helps
IDSO In Desperate Search Of
INSERTS Coupon booklets found in the Sunday paper
IME In My Experience
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
IP Internet Printable coupon
IRL In Real Life
ISO In Search Of (basically you need it)
IVC Instant Value Coupons (can be seen in Walgreens rebate booklet)
IVDSO In Very Desperate Search Of
JIC Just In Case
JLMK Just Let Me Know
JMHO Just My Humble Opinion
KG Kroger grocery store
KM Kmart, a national retailer
KWIM Know What I Mean
LFE Labels For Education (Campbell’s soup)
LMAO Laughing My A** Off
LMK Let Me Know
LOL Laugh/Laughing Out Loud
MFR Manufacturer
MIL Mother-In-Law
MIR Mail In Rebate
MM Money Maker, a deal where after coupon or rebate you make money with overage of some sort.
MOD Site Moderator
MQ Manufacturer Coupon
MRP Manufacturer’s Retail Price
NAZ Name, Address, Zip code
NAZP# Name, Address, Zip code, Phone number
NBPN No beer purchase necessary, terms of a beer sponsored rebate or coupon.
Nearly Free A coupon that when used, usually on an item on sale, to make the product “almost free”.

Shampoo on sale for a $1.19 would be nearly free if you used a $1 off coupon.

NED No Expiration Date
NFN ‘No Form Needed’ refund offer
NIB New in Box
NIP New in Package
Non-Inserts Any coupon from another source other than inserts, such as magazine coupons or those that have been mailed to you from the manufacturer.
NP No Problem
NSR No state restrictions. Usually in reference to a Winetag or Rebate.
NT WT Net Weight
NWPN No Wine Purchase Necessary. Terms of a rebate or coupon (winetag) sponsored by a wine company.
NWPR No Wine Purchase Required,. Terms of a rebate or coupon (winetag) sponsored by a wine company.
OAS On any size, a coupon or form that is valid on any size product or has no size limitations.
OASN On A Side Note
OOP Out of Pocket
OOS Out of Stock
OP Original Poster or Original Post (the person who started the thread)
OSI On a Single Item
OT Off Topic
Overage When you purchase an item with a coupon and the item costs less than the value of the coupon you may receive overage.

Example: You purchase an item that costs $0.99 cents and you use a $1.50 off 1 coupon to purchase the item you will have $0.51 cent overage.

OYNO On Your Next Order
P&G or PG Proctor & Gamble (Sunday Booklet Coupons)
Peelie A coupon found attached to a product, and can be peeled it off.
Piggyback The use of coupons for products in conjunction with one another in order to maximize savings.

Each coupon is attached to a specific product, and if the purchase requirements are met, these coupons can be used together for the purchase of a group of items.

PITA Pain in the a**
PLMK Please Let Me Know
PM Private Message
POP Proof of Purchase. Generally your cash register receipt, but may also include the UPC.
PP PayPal or Purchase Price or Previous Post(er)
PPEF PayPal Existing Funds. This is when you pay for something using Pay-Pal however the person selling the item is requesting that the funding option from Pay-Pal is existing funds, as opposed to credit card funded Pay-Pal.
PPHF PayPal handling fee. In other words they are asking for money paid via Pay-Pal.
Printable A coupon that you print from the internet on your computer.
PSA Prices Starting At or Public Service Announcement.
Q A short for Coupon, or Qualifier.
Qualifier The proof of purchase required for a refund offer that is physically taken from that package.
QQ Coupon Queen
RA RiteAid drug store
RAOK Random Act of Kindness (means that will give away/get the coupons for free)
RC Rain Check. A slip of paper that a store issues when an item is out of stock, allowing you to purchase that item at a later date at the sale price.
Rebate A mail in offer provided by the manufacture of a product or a store that will refund you back money you spent to purchase a specific item in whole or in part.
Rep Reputation
RIB Reinventing Beauty, a special booklet of coupons issued about once quarterly that contains various coupons for products at CVS store locations. The cost of this booklet is $0.99.
RME Revolution Money Exchange, a form of online payment much like Pay-Pal but without the fees.
ROFLMAO Rolling on The Floor Laughing my a** off (found in the mood tab)
RP Red Plum (Sunday Booklet Coupon Insert)
RR Register Reward (applicable to Walgreens. Use as a $ off coupon on your next purchase)
SAE Self Addressed Envelope.
SAHD Stay At Home Dad
SAHH Stay At Home Husband
SAHM Stay At Home Mom
SAHW Stay At Home Wife
SASE Self Addressed Stamped Envelope
SCO Self Check Out
SCR Rite Aid Single Check Rebate
SD Store Display
SF Store Form
SIL Sister-In-Law or Sun-In-Law
SMP Specially Marked Package
SO Significant Other
SRP Suggested Retail Price
SS Smart Source (Sunday Booklet Coupon Insert)
STACKING The usage of more than one coupon per item (Usually store coupon + manufacturer coupon)
STG Super Target, a bigger version of Target stores that include a full grocery store section of their store.
Sticky A thread marked as important by a moderator of this forum and “stuck” to the top of the forum. Threads that are “stuck” (Sticky) are always at the top of the forum until removed as such by a moderator.

These are usually threads that need high visibility because they are important threads.
 
All members are requested to read the stickies in each forum before posting as they will help explain rules and policies.

SUPER DOUBLES orDOUBLES Coupons that are doubled $1 + in value (Example: a $1.00 coupon is doubled to $2.00 value)
SW Safeway grocery store
SWM Super Wal-Mart. A bigger version of Wal-Mart stores that include a full grocery store section of their store (a national retailer.
TEARPAD A pad of forms/coupons found hanging from a store shelf or display.
TG Target
TIA Thanks in Advance
TMF Try Me Free – mail in rebate for full amount of product.
TMI Too Much Information
TP Tearpad or Toilet Paper or Toothpaste
TRIPLE COUPON A coupon that a grocery store triples in value
TRU Toys R Us
TYVM Thank You Very Much
UPC Universal Product Code, i.e. the barcode on a coupon or a product. Often required as proof of purchase when applying for a rebate.
WAG orWAGS Walgreens drug store
WD Winn Dixie grocery store
Winetag A coupon, usually found in the form of a hangtag around the neck of a bottle of wine.
WL Wish List
WM WalMart
WPN Wine Purchase Necessary. A coupon for form offered by a wine company that requires the purchase of wine to redeem the offer.
WPR Wine Purchase Required. A coupon or form offered by a wine company that requires the purchase of wine to redeem the offer.
WSL While Supplies Last
WT Winetag
WUC We Use Coupons (refers to the site)
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