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an acronym born backwardsthe word came first, the meaning got hired later.

means a phrase invented after the fact to make an existing word or abbreviation look like it stood for something clever all along.

from coined in 1983 by writer Meredith G. Williams in a Washington Post neologism contest, blending back and acronym to name the reverse-engineering trick itself.

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