noun🔗ShareA word that is originally not an acronym but is turned into one by devising a full form for it, sometimes as a folk etymology, sometimes as a contrived acronym to name a new organization, proposal, or other entity."The organizers joked that "POSH," as in "Port Out, Starboard Home," was one of the many invented backronyms used to make the event sound fancier than it really was. "languagewordlinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
