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 Embarassed )
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:
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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:
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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.