Did you know that the words Macho and Wimp are also acronyms? Macho originally came from the Latin word masculus and later became machismo in Spanish,both words meaning masculine. Wimp is a more current word dating to the 1920s meaning woman,then morphing into the current meaning in the 1960s of ineffectual,perhaps derived from whimper...but wait there's more! Those jokers in astrophysics (think "The Big Bang Theory") put the words to use. MACHO is used to describe astronomical bodies called 'massive astrophysical compact halo objects' and WIMP is short for 'weakly interacting massive particles'. There are also other uses for them if you look online,but rather than having actual assigned meanings they are more likely used in small groups to not so much shorten a term but to see how many uses there can be for those letters.
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