This is a far-from-complete list of acronyms, abbreviations and terms commonly used on BoB and elsewhere in online pipe and tobacco culture. The purpose is to help familiarize newcomers with the harrowing task of discovering tobaccos, but has other miscellany as well. While information is king, personal research is the housecarl. This is a casual conversation reference only.
Acronyms and abbreviations may or may not contain ampersands, spaces, variations, repeats and various capitalization used by others. Use at your own risk.
If something needs to be added, is archaic, is misused or just plain wrong, please let me know.
TOBACCO:--------------------------------------------------------------------
1792 - Samuel Gawith 1792 Flake (formerly Cob Flake)
5100 - McClelland 5100, a red VA blend
1Q - Lane's 1Q Bulk Aromatic Tobacco
ABF - Solani Aged Burley Flake
Aro - Referring to any aromatic tobacco blend
B&B - Cornell & Diehl Big 'n' Burley
BB - Gawith & Hoggarth Brown Bogie (not so much for shooting out of a Daisy-brand product)
BBBB - Dan Bill Bailey's Balkan Blend
BBF - Samuel Gawith Best Brown Flake (not the acronym you find in Craigslist personals ads, no sir)
BCA - Lane's "BCA" - A vanilla Cavendish-based aromatic (go figure).
BCAQ - A mix of Lane's "1Q" and "BCA," incidentally.
BCF - Gawith & Hoggarth Bob's Chocolate Flake
BCP - Gawith & Hoggarth Bosun Cut Plug
BF - Samuel Gawith Braken Flake (or the friend you hate that your daughter texts constantly)
BFP - Cornell & Diehl Baileys Front Porch
BLB - MacBaren's Burley London Blend
BM - Rattray's Black Mallory (...do we really have to go there?)
C&D - Cornell & Diehl (brand)
Cav - Referring to any tobacco that has been treated Cavendish-style (not a sports team)
CBK - Hearth & Home Classic Burley Kake
CBR - Captain Black Royal
CH - Carter Hall, a drugstore blend by Middleton
DBE - Gawith & Hoggarth Dark Bird's Eye
DH - Dunhill (brand - also a pipe maker) (might be David Hasselhoff)
DLF - Dunhill Light Flake
DLNR - Dunhill Deluxe Navy Rolls
DSF - Peter Heinrich's Dark Strong Flake
EF - Erinmore Flake
EM - Erinmore Mixture
EMP - Dunhill Early Morning Pipe (also the Nebuchadnezzar's greatest threat)
ER - Cornell & Diehl Exhausted Rooster (also where you'll go if you eat the whole tin at once)
ERR - Edgeworth Ready Rubbed
F&T - Friborg and Treyer (brand)
FM - McClelland Frog Morton
FMOTB - McClelland Frog Morton On The Bayou
FMOTT - McClelland Frog Morton On The Town
FMATP - McClelland Frog Morton Across The Pond
FVF - Samuel Gawith Full Virginia Flake (...ironically, Swahili for "good luck finding any.")
GH - Gawith & Hoggarth Co. (brand)
GLP - G.L. Pease Tobacco (brand)
GG - Samuel Gawith Golden Glow (Virginia) (never with the last name "Allin," thank you)
HH - Hearth & Home tobacco blends by Russ Ouellette
HHBB - Hearth & Home Butternut Burley
HHLB - Hearth & Home Lakeland Brickle
HHVS - MacBaren Vintage Syrian
HB - Cornell & Diehl Haunted Bookshop
HFTH - Cornell & Diehl Home From The Hills
HOTW - Rattray's Hal o' the Wind (not "HOT Women." Sorry.)
HOW - House of Windsor
HV - Dan Hamborger Veermaster (terrible on a bun, though)
JKP - GL Pease Jackknife Plug
KY - Referring to Kentucky tobacco
LaP - Louisiana, or "true" Perique
Lat - Referring to "Latakia," [Cyp - Cyprian] or [Syr - Syrian] "spicing" tobacco
LB - Hearth & Home Larry's Blend
LBF - Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bulls Eye Flake
LGF - Reiner's Long Golden Flake
LNF - Peter Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake
LTF - Peter Stokkebye Luxury Twist Flake
McB - Macbaren's Tobacco Co. (brand)
McC - McClellands Tobacco Co. (brand)
McCon - McConnell Tobacco (brand)
MD - Referring to Maryland tobacco (Trapper John's favorite)
MF - Rattray's Marlin Flake (also a rude Freudian reference)
MM965 - Dunhill My Mixture 965 (sometimes just referred to as 965)
MNF - MacBaren Navy Flake
MRF - McCranie Red Flake
MRR - McCranie Red Ribbon
MVF - Samuel Gawith's Medium Virginia Flake
NC - Dunhill Nightcap
ODF - Mac Baren's Old Dark Fired
OG - Rattray's Old Gowrie (what every 1990's rap song was referring to, obviously)
OGS - Orliks Golden Sliced
OJK - Old Joe Krantz, burley based blend by C&D
OTC - Over the Counter (known as "Drugstore Tobacco.")
PA - Prince Albert tobacco, a drugstore blend by Middleton
Per - Referring to "Perique," the special Louisiana "spicing" tobacco
PM - William P. Solomon Presbyterian Mixture (also what to if you want to contact a BoB member via private Message)
PS - Peter Stokkebye (brand)
PSLBF - Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bulls Eye Flake
PSBS - Peter Stokkebye Balkan Supreme
PSLNF - Peter Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake
PSLTF - Peter Stokkebye Luxury Twist Flake
P&W - Pipeworks & Wilke, a tobacco blender in Vermont run by Carole Burns
RRR - Rattray's Red Rapparee (sometimes simply "
RR")
SG - Samuel Gawith Co. (English tobacco brand)
SJF - Samuel Gawith St. James Flake
SL - Samuel Gawith Squadron Leader
SLF - JF Germain Special Latakia Flake
SMM - Dunhill Standard Mixture Medium
SOTE - Cornell & Diehl Star Of The East
SWR - Sir Walter Raleigh (drugstore brand)
SXT - GL Pease Sextant (not really an acronym yet, wondering if "SEX" is better
)
US - GL Pease Union Square
VA(s) - Referring to "Virginias" (tobacco varietal)
VaPer(s) - Referring to a Virginia and Perique tobacco mixture - not referring to a polite way of Victorian women passing gas (as in, "...a case of the ______").
WBS - Wessex Burley Slice
PIPES:--------------------------------------------------------------
BC - Butz-Choquin pipe manufacturer
BD - Bulldog, or "bully" styles of pipes
CAO - A brand of meerschaum pipes
Cav - Cavalier pipes, usually sporting a drill-through a shank with a cap on the end.
DH - Sometimes referred to as a "Dunnie," Dunhill pipes, England
FD - Ferndown brand of pipes
HCA - Hans Christian Anderson, a line of Stanwell pipes, which included a churchwarden AND a shorter stem
IMP - A brand of Turkish, block meerschaum pipe
KBB - Kaufman Brothers and Bondy, later, makers of Kaywoodie and Yello-Bole pipes
K(&)P - See "Pete" below, or Peterson
KW - Kaywoodie, American pipe manufacturer
LHS - Pipes made by Ludwig and Hugo Stern. Marketed under the named LHS, Sterncrest or Purex
MM - Missouri Meerschaum, the oldest and foremost corncob pipe manufacturer!
NAC - North American Carvers (pipe makers)
Pete - Peterson's of Dublin pipes (Ireland)
PH - Pipes made by Peter Heeschen
RD - Pipes made by Rad Davis (aka "A Rad") - also a frequenting BoB'er!
Sav - Savinelli pipes, Italy
SMS - A brand of Turkish meerschaum pipes
TH - Todd Harris or "Harris" pipes
OTHER BoB MISCELLANY:------------------------------------------------
B&M - Brick and Mortar, i.e. an actual tobacco store, or "mom & pop" store, any other than an online shop.
BoB - That's us! The Brothers of Briar! You knew that already, though, didn't you?
DGT - Delayed Gratification Technique - to intentionally delay re-lighting your pipe and tobacco to create a new flavor experience.
HO - "High Octane." Referring to nicotine content of the strongest of strong tobaccos.
LAD - Lighter Acquisition Disorder: why have one when you can have 100?
PAD - Pipe Acquisition Disorder: A serious disorder affecting many BoB members. Highly contagious.
TAD - Tobacco Acquisition Disorder: Another serious disorder affecting many BoB members. Also contagious
TGD/PGD - Tobacco/Pipe GIVING Disorder: Evil doers that shamefully gift things, sometimes quite randomly, to other BoB members. Called "bombing," it's the neatest war on the planet.
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