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TL;DR

"too long; didn't read"; internet comment

"too long; didn't read"; internet comment

TL;DR or tl;dr, short for "too long; didn't read", is internet slang often used to introduce a summary of an online post or news article. It is also used as an informal interjection commenting that a block of text has been ignored due to its length.

History

The phrase dates back to at least 2002. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, its earliest known use was in a 2002 message posted on the Usenet newsgroup rec.games.video.nintendo. In 2009, the term appeared in Mo' Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined, a publication based on online crowdsourced slang database Urban Dictionary. Also in 2009, it was listed as a slang acronym in David Pogue's tweet anthology World According to Twitter. The term was added to the Oxford Dictionaries Online in 2013.

References

References

  1. {{Cite OED. tl;dr
  2. {{cite Merriam-Webster. tl;dr
  3. Johnson, Dave. "What does TLDR mean? Understanding the internet shorthand for lengthy text and its various uses".
  4. Peckham, Aaron. (2009-01-01). "Mo' Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined". Andrews McMeel Publishing.
  5. Pogue, David. (2009-08-15). "World According to Twitter". Running Press.
  6. (28 August 2013). "Oxford Dictionaries Online quarterly update: new words added to oxforddictionaries.com today". Oxford University Press.
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