BTW

See also: btw

English

Alternative forms

• bee tee dubs
• btw

Prepositional phrase

BTW

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of by the way.
   • 1981 June 14, harpo!ber, “Lion's Book”, in fa.unix-wizards‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2016-07-02, message-ID <anews.Aharpo.261>:

     Last I heard, the books could not be copied in any part nor seen by non-licensees. BTW – Irma Biren has been promoted (she deserved it) and the new contact would be Francine Glick.

   • 1989 May 8, Vince Perriello (Editor in Chief), “Volume 6, Number 19”, in FidoNews‎^[2], archived from the original on 2005-01-18:

     BTW – By The Way

Translations

by the way

• Czech: MMCH
• Italian: cmq (it)
• Korean: 그런데 (ko) (geureonde)
• Russian: Кстá (Kstá) (slang), Кстáти (Kstáti)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: УБР, БТЊ (slang)

  Roman: UBR, BTNj (slang)

Anagrams

• BWT, TWB, WTB

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

BTW (uncountable)

1. Initialism of belasting op toegevoegde waarde.; VAT, value-added tax

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beː.teːˈʋeː/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

BTW f (uncountable)

1. (unofficial) Alternative letter-case form of btw

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English BTW (“by the way”).

Adverb

BTW (Cyrillic spelling БТВ)

1. (Internet, text) Initialism of by the way.