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Definition of ETAs

ETA

interjection

noun

  • acronym for "Estimated Time of Arrival."
    Person 1: What time are you picking her up?

    Person 2: 12:30. Well, that's her ETA anyway.

    Last edited on Apr 21 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.

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Definitions include: acronym of "go fuck yourself."
Definitions include: "disconnect".
Definitions include: acronym for "Be right back", as in, "I will return soon."
Definitions include: "Internet BF", i.e. "Internet Boyfriend".
Definitions include: "never mind".
Definitions include: "Internet BFF", i.e. "Internet Best Friend(s) Forever".
Definitions include: "okay, thanks, bye."
Definitions include: acronym for "original poster" - i.e. the person to submit (post) something to a website that permits discussion about submitted things.
Definitions include: acronym for "do the right thing".
Definitions include: online chatting acronym for "age, sex, location?"
Definitions include: "that".
Definitions include: "to be honest".
Definitions include: "non-nude".
Definitions include: acronym for "Oh my God", a general-purpose exclamation.

Other terms relating to 'acronyms (list of)':

Definitions include: acronym for "burned out old fart".
Definitions include: acronym for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Definitions include: acronym for "unexplained beer injury", used on medical charts by doctors in the UK.
Definitions include: acronym for "god damn".
Definitions include: acronym for "I love you".
Definitions include: used to express displeasure, disagreement, disappointment, or disgust.
Definitions include: "LOL" with the O replaced with an E.
Definitions include: acronym for "not much, you".
Definitions include: acronym for "girlfriend experience."
Definitions include: acronym for "talk to you tomorrow".
Definitions include: an emphatic "Okay," via a doubled "k".
Definitions include: acronym for "bring your own beer", "bring your own bottle", or "bring your own booze".
Definitions include: acronym for "Be right back", as in, "I will return soon."
Definitions include: acronym for "lame-ass mother fucker".
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Other terms relating to 'add':

Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.

Other terms relating to 'arrival':

Definitions include: abbr. dead on arrival.

Other terms relating to 'of':

Definitions include: a worthless person.
Definitions include: sexual activity.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a little crazy
Definitions include: of lower than average intelligence.
Definitions include: "not all there".
Definitions include: skittish.
Definitions include: an amount of violence.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: an impressive.
Definitions include: an impressive.
Definitions include: many.
Definitions include: an emphatic "yes".
Definitions include: better than all that.
Definitions include: the best.

Other terms relating to 'time':

Definitions include: time to eat.
Definitions include: in a grand way.
Definitions include: an effect in visual media such as movies and video games in which playback is slowed or paused while the camera moves around a moving object such as a bullet.
Definitions include: time spend in front of the TV sitting on one's butt and relaxing.
Definitions include: a period of time during which optimum performance is critical for the successful outcome of a project, process, task, etc.
Definitions include: to serve a sentence in jail or prison.
Definitions include: to do something quickly.
Definitions include: the potential of facilitating one's meeting of other people.
Definitions include: physically near a time zone boundary, the later of the two times.
Definitions include: to be over half an hour late to all gatherings.
Definitions include: a decision that will be made close to the time of acting upon that decision.
Definitions include: to pay attention to a person.
Definitions include: excellent.
Definitions include: Everything's good.
Definitions include: time to get serious about doing something.

Other terms relating to 'to':

Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: See nine to five.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: a declaration of victory or superiority.
Definitions include: sex in which anal sex is immediately followed by fellatio.
Definitions include: to revisit one's past.
Definitions include: to go back to the beginning.
Definitions include: extreme; "all out".
Definitions include: to be vastly superior.
Definitions include: to perform an activity before someone else.
Definitions include: to be unintelligible.
Definitions include: to do.
Definitions include: more important things to deal with.
Definitions include: to kill or destroy.

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