Talk:OBO

Removals from abbreviations listing

provided with reasoning for removal --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:18, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

• "Or best offer", an abbreviation used on sale advertisements to mean that a price is negotiable.

  (not supported by Negotiation or Auction articles)

• "Off by One", a term used to describe arithmetic errors.

  (not supported by Off-by-one error article)

• "Over-by-over", a term used to describe microblog-like updates of cricket matches every six balls.

  (not supported by Over (cricket) article)

  (the term does appear in a number of articles, without any definition: Stick Cricket, Jeremy Theobald, Beard Liberation Front, Borden Grammar School and several others.)

• "On Behalf Of", an abbreviation used on documents/correspondence when one party is acting as an agent of another.

  (not supported by relevant articles)

• One by one (figure skating), a type of scoring system in figure skating

  (not supported by Figure skating, 6.0 system, Figure skating competition or ISU Judging System)

• Output back off, related to power control in satellite communications

  (not supported by any one of several articles consulted)

• Obo: West London cockney slang for aubergine (US eggplant). First seen in Portobello Rd. vegetable market circa 2008. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.100.211.245 (talk) 13:58, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Potential additions

from search results --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:18, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

• Ocean bottom observatory

  appearing in Loihi Seamount#Activity

• Obo River

  appearing in Thudaka Range and Ruby Range (Sifton Ranges) and Thudaka Peak

• O.b.O.

  appearing in Igor Dymkov

• Obo, Papua New Guinea

  appearing in Obo Airport (Papua New Guinea)