backronym
bacronym

The associated term is "estimated time of accomplishment", which may be a backronym.

The latter reading is however generally held as backronym.

The whimsical backronym from the brand name dates to the 1970s.

Points are awarded to the most popular backronym.

Heidi and Saseline once held a competition for their fans to come up with a backronym.

The group's name acts as a double backronym.

It also reflects the Bureau's own initials as a "backronym" of sorts.

A Backronym is the same as an acronym, except that the meaning was created after the abbreviation.

This is widely regarded as a backronym, a constructed acronym created to fit an existing word.

The channel's name became a backronym for "The Entertainment Network" during the early-1990s.

The full name is a backronym from 'quid', a slang term for the British Pound.

However, this is a backronym, and there is no proof to support the theory that the name of the village comes from the acronym.

The term is a backronym for the Horta from Star Trek.

As with the American ZIP code, the name is an backronym.

Thereafter, some Afrodescendants has positively taken the word back, considered in francophone countries as a backronym made up of 'natural' and 'happy'.

A three-letter backronym, "possible assistance needed" or "pay attention now" is derived from "pan".

This explanation is probably a backronym.

The railroad bore the hostile backronym of "Defeated & Maltreated".

Often said to stand for Non-Educated Delinquent but this is a backronym.

The name "Spock" is explained with a backronym: "single point of contact (by) keyword."

Although Fit is an acronym, the word "Fit" came first, making it a backronym.

There are no contemporaneous uses of "GP" before later attempts to create a "backronym."

The event's title is a backronym, Long After Twilight Ends.

It is also a backronym for "Fairyland In Reality", their debut album name.

The bacronym may hold little appeal for most, but in Washington bacronym-fever is rampant.

A backronym (or bacronym) is a phrase that is constructed "after the fact" from a previously existing word.

Furthermore, it is a bacronym for:

Both the program and the individual vehicles are typically referred to by the bacronym HERO.

The specific strain of the acronym virus infecting most of Washington is called “the bacronym.”

This was later developed as a bacronym for Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everybody.

A bacronym is a premeditated acronym, where a phrase is chosen so that the initial letters of each word form a desired word.

Its earliest known citation in print is as "bacronym" in the November 1983 edition of the Washington Post monthly neologism contest.

The name Notacon became a bacronym for Northern Ohio Technological Advancement Conference; however, use of this was mostly dropped after the first year.

Bacronym expansions of ACRONYM (Acronym Finder)

A backronym or bacronym is a specially constructed phrase that is supposed to be the source of a word that is, or is claimed to be, an acronym.

The bureau's name is a bacronym from "uskok", a term used for a type of Croatian militia men, who had fought against the Ottoman Empire between the early 16th and 17th century.

The name, PANDORA, is an bacronym that encapsulates its mission: Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia.

Harvard Library's online catalog, HOLLIS (a bacronym for "Harvard On-Line Library Information System"), is named after him.

Nylac was founded by Gary Martin, although to customers and dealers NYLAC stood for "Now You've Looked At Computers" that was a bacronym.

The AN/MPQ-53 at the heart of the system is known as the "Phased array Tracking Radar to Intercept on Target" or the bacronym PATRIOT.

WAVES was the bacronym used for the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, the World War II women's branch of the United States Naval Reserve.

The rating system was devised by and named after Virginia Apgar, but ten years after the initial publication, the bacronym APGAR was coined in the US as a mnemonic learning aid: Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity and Respiration.