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Definition of IRL

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Other terms relating to 'Internet, texting, SMS, email, chat acronyms (list of)':

Definitions include: acronym for "got to go".
Definitions include: acronym for "from the article."
Definitions include: acronym for "none of your business."
Definitions include: acronym for "You there?" i.e. "Are you there?"
Definitions include: acronym for "private message".
Definitions include: "serious business".
Definitions include: acronym for "pardon my jumping in".
Definitions include: acronym for "way to go".
Definitions include: acronym for "ta-ta for now" (i.e. "goodbye for now.")
Definitions include: "ok, thanks."
Definitions include: "elite".
Definitions include: acronym for "talk amongst yourselves".
Definitions include: "nothing much".
Definitions include: "I see".
Definitions include: to contact a person via an Internet-based "Instant Messaging" service, such as MSN Instant Messenger or AOL Instant Messenger.

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Other terms relating to 'in':

Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: involving everyone or everything.
Definitions include: doing something emphatically.
Definitions include: no chance.
Definitions include: something easy.
Definitions include: at some time before the present.
Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing.
Definitions include: included.
Definitions include: clitoris.
Definitions include: to intrude.
Definitions include: See barge in.
Definitions include: To beat someone up, inflict head injury
Definitions include: visible mucus in one's nostrils.
Definitions include: acronym for "be back in a bit", i.e. "I will return in a short amount of time."

Other terms relating to 'life':

Definitions include: to be good, enjoyable, important to a person, etc.
Definitions include: acronym for "best friend(s) for life".
Definitions include: acronym for "fuck my life."
Definitions include: as if one's life depended on it.
Definitions include: acronym for "fuck your life".
Definitions include: a generic insult.
Definitions include: a life during which many bad things happen.
Definitions include: See also be life.
Definitions include: This describes a fatalist, philosophical view of life, based upon the military slang term for a mission which is terminal.
Definitions include: a person with a life sentence in prison.
Definitions include: To live with the present being the most important; to live a dream or to understand the unchanging world, so to speak.
Definitions include: a criminal or evil person.
Definitions include: acronym for "my life is great".
Definitions include: an assertion that something will never happen.
Definitions include: acronym for "not safe for life".

Other terms relating to 'real':

Definitions include: to act as oneself - to not put on a facade.
Definitions include: champagne to our real friends, real pain to our sham friends
Definitions include: "for real".
Definitions include: "for real".
Definitions include: "Are you telling me the truth?" or "I'm telling you the truth."
Definitions include: "for real", i.e. "seriously".
Definitions include: "for real though", i.e. "seriously though".
Definitions include: statement of disbelief.
Definitions include: acronym for "in the real world".
Definitions include: to tell the truth about something.
Definitions include: to stay true to one's self; to resist the temptation to be fake.
Definitions include: truthful, honest.
Definitions include: Alternate form of on the real.
Definitions include: acting true to one's self.
Definitions include: something legitimate.

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