Ahimsa is a religious concept which advocates non-violence and a respect for all life; it is Sanskrit for avoidance of himsa. Himsa is injury to sentient beings. It is commonly backronymed as "Abstinence from animal products, Harmlessness with reverence for life, Integrity of thought, word, and deed, Mastery over oneself, Service to humanity, nature, and creation, and Advancement of understanding and truth".
Apgar - a brief medical examination of new-born babies - was named after the doctor who introduced it but can be understood as an acronym for Appearance (skin color), Pulse (heart rate), Grimace (reflex irritability), Activity (muscle tone), Respiration.
Fuck - urban legends often give this vulgarism a backronymic folk-etymology such as Fornication Under Consent of the King, Found Under Carnal Knowledge, For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, or Fornication Unlawful in the Commonwealth of the King. [1]
Gay - claimed by some gay people to stand for Good As You to assert that homosexuality merits equal status and treatment with heterosexuality; claimed by some homophobes to stand for "Got AIDSYet?"
Golf - a popular urban legend states that the game of golf originally stood for Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden. [2]
Rap - Derided by some as Retards Attempting Poetry; with the entrance of white rappers like Eminem, this can also be further retro-fitted using the slang term Cracker Retards Attempting Poetry.
Tip - an urban legend claims that "tip" (as in a gratuity for services) is an acronym for To Insure Promptness; this is false.
Automotive
Audi - Accelerates Under Demonic Influence; Automatic Unexpected Death Initiator
DeLorean - Don't Ever Lend One Rich Easterner Any Narcotics
Dodge - Drips Oil, Drops Grease, Everywhere; Dead Or Dying Gutless Engines
Ford - Ferro Oxide Rust Damage; Found On Rubbish Dump; Found On Road Dead; Fix Or Repair Daily (or Figure On Repairing Daily); Fast Only Rolling Downhill; For Old Retired Drivers; Fucker Only Runs Downhill; Fucked Over Rebuilt Dodge; Fucking Old Rebuilt Dodge. A more praising backronym is First On Race Day. An example of a reverse backronym is Driver Returning On Foot. (also fr: «fabrication ordinaire, réparation dispendieuse»)
Holden - Holes, Oil Leaks, Dents and Engine Noises
Air India - Airplanes In Repo In Nicaragua, Delay Inevitable Anyway
Alitalia - Airplane Lands In Tokyo And Luggage In Atlanta; Always Late In Take-off, Always Late In Arrival; A Little Italian Tradition And Lotsa Italian Attitude
American - Airline Meals Eaten Regularly Induce Cramps and Nausea
Delta - Divert Everyone's Luggage To Atlanta; Doesn't/Don't Ever Leave The Airport; Didn't Expect To Land There Anyway; Don't Expect Luggage To Arrive.
Microsoft - My Incompetent Computer Randomly Operates Sensibly/Stupidly On Floating Point Tasks; Most Intelligent Customers Realise Our Software Only Fools Toddlers
Macintosh - Most Applications Crash (or Machine Always Crashes), If Not, The Operating System Hangs
Multics - Many Unnecessary Long Tables In Core Simultaneously
PCMCIA - People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
Pentium - Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Math (see Pentium FDIV bug), PC Errors Not Tolerable I'd Use Macintosh
Perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language; Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister; Parse Every Random Line (in honor of the extensions proposed for Perl 6); Pathetic Excuse for a Real Language
Spam - System Plugged (with) Annoying Messages; Stupid Person's AdvertiseMent; Stupid Puerile Ad Mail; Stuff (or Sewage) Posing As Mail; Send(ing) People Annoying Mail/Messages; Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages; Stupid Posts and Messages
WINDOWS - WINDOWS Is Not a Defined Operating/Working System (this is actually a recursive backronym); Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
Commerce
Acme is the canonical supplier of bizarre, elaborate, and non-functional gadgetry in Warner Brothers' Road Runner cartoons, commonly backronymed to "A (or American) Company Making (or Manufacturing) Everything".
Adidas - Used once as a marketing tagline for the athletic apparel maker -- All Day I Dream About Sports. Also title of a song by Korn: "All Day I Dream About Sex". A popular schoolground one in the UK is "After Dinner I Do A Shit". A well-known Spanish version would be: "Asociación De Idiotas Dispuestos A Superarse" (Association of idiots willing to get better). A popular Dutch version is "Alleen Domme Idioten Doen Aan Sport" (Only dumb idiots do sports).
Puma - Poor Unprofessional Mimickry of Adidas (de: «Probier Unbedingt Mal Adidas»)
The Arby's chain of restaurants was named after its founders; in the early 1980s the company launched an advertising campaign that used the backronym "America's Roast Beef, Yes Sir!"
CHAPS - Coulda Had A Polo Shirt - Used as a deragatory term towards people who opted for the less expensive CHAPS line over the more expensive Polo Ralph Lauren
Military and police
Army - Aren't Real Men Yet; Aren't Ready for Marines Yet; Another RedneckMilitaryYahoo. As a backward backronym, tags on soldier's BDU's (Battle Dress Uniform) can be read "Yes My Retarded Ass Signed Up."
Marine- Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Essential; My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment.
Cop - identified by some as "constable on patrol", this originally might not be an acronym at all but a reference to grabbing the alleged villain (sharing origins with "it's a fair cop" or even "to cop a feel") -- Origins murky - could be shortned form of "Copper" since badges were made from the material in certain cities when professional policing began.
Pig - When "pig" came into use as derogatory slang for a policeman, some of its targets retaliated by adopting the phrase "Pride, Integrity, Guts".
A3D All Three Dead (reference to bomber with three man crew and no ejection seats)
CVE - Combustible, Volatile (or Vulnerable) and Expendable
MOAB - Mother Of All Bombs (originally Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb,a US Army weapon)
SOS - Save Our Ship; Save Our Souls; Same Old Shit; Shitting OurSelves; Stuck On Stupid; Shit on a Shingle (popular Navy food)
BMW - Bring Money in Wheelbarrows; Big Money Waster; Break My Windows; Basic Marin Wheels; Best Machines in the World; Bob Marley and the Wailers; Black Man's Wheels (in UK Afro-Caribbean culture); Break My Wallet; Be My Wife; Black Man's Willy; Bringing More Weight. A reverse backronym is Wanted Mercedes-Benz. In German: Bayerischer MistWagen (Bavarian Manure Wagon), Bayerische Mistwerke (Bavarian Muck Works), Bring Mir Werkstatt (Bring Me to Workshop) or Bei Mercedes Weggeworfen (Built from Mercedes' Wastebin), Baader-Meinhoff Wagen (after German Terrorist group of the 1970s)
Fiat - Fix It Again Tomorrow; Fix It Again Tony; Found In A Trashbin; Futile/Feeble Italian Attempt at Transportation; Flat In Every Tyre; Fucking Idiot Asshole Towncar; Failure In Automotive Technology. In German: Fehler In Allen Teilen (all parts are faulty); Für Italiener Ausreichende Technologie (technology sufficient for Italians)
BOAC - Better On A Camel; Better On Air Canada; Bit Of A Charlie; Barely Own Any Clocks; Bring Over American Cash; Boeing Only Aircraft Considered (complaint of British aeroplane industry)
BWIA - Better Walk If Able; Britain's Worst Investment Abroad; But Will It Arrive?; Bound to Wait In the Airport
Delta Airlines Don't Ever Leave The Airport; Don't Expect Luggage To Arrive
Qantas - Queer And Nice Types of Air Steward; Quick And Nasty, Typical Australian Service; Queens (or Queers) And Nymphomanics Trained (or Trading) As Stewards; Quite A Nice Trip, Any Survivors?; Queer And Nuts, Try Another Service
SABENA - Such A Bad (or Bloody) Experience, Never Again
Sahsa - Stay At Home, Stay Alive (originally Servicio Aereo de Honduras S.A.)
TACA - Take A Chance Airlines; (In Spanish:) Tres Accidentes Cada Año (Three accidents each year)
TWA - Try Walking Across; Try Walking Asshole; Teeny Weeny Airlines; The Worst Airline; Third World Airlines; Thousands Wandering Aimlessly; Terrorists Welcome Aboard
UTA - Unlikely To Arrive (originally Union des Transports Aeriens)
EMACS - Escape, Meta, Alt, Control, Shift; EMACS Makes A Computer Slow; Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping; (In German:) EMACS Macht Alle Computer Schön (EMACS makes all computers beautiful)
IBM - Inferior But Marketable; It's Better Manually; Idiots Become Managers; Insidious Black Magic; International Brotherhood of Magicians; It's Been Malfunctioning; Incontinent Bowel Movement; I Blame Microsoft (see OS/2); I Buy Macintosh; I've Been Moved (by 1950s and 1960s employees in reference to frequent relocations); Inmensa Bola de Mierda (Spanish for "Huge Piece of Shit")
LISP - Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses (alternatively Silly/Stupid Parentheses); Lost In a Sea of Parentheses; Lots of Idiotic, Silly Parentheses after its syntax involving a lot of parentheses indeed.
NT Not Tested; Not There; Nice Try; Nasty and Troublesome; Not to be Trusted; No Thanks; (in Spanish:) No Trabaja (It doesn't work); (In Finnish) reads like "en tee" meaning "I won't do (it)", Windows NT (WNT) is an incronym (one letter after) of VMS the previous OS designed by Dave Cutler the designer of NT
MCSE - Must Consult Somebody Experienced; Minesweeper Consultant and Solitaire Expert
UNLV - Unfortunately No Longer Virgins (the official meaning of hiphopgroup UNLV 's name). In the city of Vancouver, WA, this has become University of Never Leaving Vancouver, likewise with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
UMBC - Under Major Building Construction; U Must Be Crazy
CMSU - Call Me Stupid University; School for Dyslexic Marines
NEPA - The Nigerian National Electric Power Authority, which because of its variable quality of service is commonly called Never Expect Power Anywhere or No Electric Power Anticipated. When the company became a public limited company and changed its formal name to NEPA PLC, the backronym was changed to No Electric Power Available, Please Light Candle.
NFG - (if the customer asks) New, Fully Guaranteed; (otherwise) No Fucking Good
CID - Coppers In Disguise; more colourfully, Cunts In Disguise
FBI - Full-Blooded Indian; Fry Bread Inspector; From Big Island; Federal Breast Inspector (many are popular T-shirt slogans); also Federal Bureau of Incineration; Fire and Brimstone, Inc., (in reference to the Waco disaster); Female Body Inspector; Female Boobie Inspector
PSAC (union) - People Standing Around Complaining (fr: AFPC = «Association des Fortement Paresseux du Canada»)
RESPECT The Unity Coalition, a left wing political party in the UK where RESPECT was later explained officially as Respect, Equality, Socialism, Peace, Environmentalism, Community and Trade Unionism, or among its opponents as Recently Expelled Scottish Politician Endorses Communist Tyranny [3].
NPWS - No People and Weird Stuff-ups (from their habit of making some National parks very difficult to access); No People Welcome, Sorry (originally National Parks and Wildlife Service (Australia))
FCC - During the heyday of citizen's band radio, those who operated illegally or on the edge of the law called the Federal Communications Commission the Friendly Candy Company or Fat Chance Charlie.
DVB - Deficient Video Bandwidth, Definitely Very Boring, Delivering Virtually Bullshit
DVD - Defective Video Display, Delivers Virtual Dreck - in computing and audio, "Digital Versatile Disc" is a valid backronym for what was originally a digital video disc; the DVD Consortium supposedly has never claimed that the letters DVD stood for anything specific.
VHS - Virtually Hopeless Signal (originally stood for Vertical Helical Scan but believed by most people to mean Video Home System)
VOCM - The Dominion of Newfoundland radio callsign prefix VO has typically been backronymed as "voice of", so VOCM would be the "Voice Of Church (of) Mary", "Voice Of the Common Man" or (if one were being critical) "Voice Of Complete Morons".
VOAR and VOWR have been similarly backronymed as "Voice of Adventist Radio" and "Voice of Wesley Radio",
WABC - We'll Always Be Crying, We'll Always Be Cynical
