syllabic abbreviation

noun

Definitions

  1. An abbreviation formed from syllables, usually the initial ones, of several words.

    • Subaru named it after the New York zip code Tribeca — a syllabic abbreviation of “Triangle Below Canal Street” — not so much to connote wealth and glamour

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for syllabic abbreviation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA