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🤟 Sign language 💬 Age, sex, location
ASL

ASL

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An online chat question asking someone's age, sex, and location
  • noun
  • Slang
translation icon : ASL
  • Before I shared my profile, I asked her for her ASL to see if we have anything in common.

Examples

  • In the message, he simply wrote, 'My ASL is 25, female, and from New York.'

  • It appears that the new user who just registered will have to go through the filter process before the moderator knows it is not spam or another ASL cheater trying to pull off from us.

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  • When chatting online, many people ask for ASL to get basic information about each other.

Surface Forms

ASL singular
ASLs plural

Morphology

ASL = age + sex + location (semi-transparent) = A + S + L

ASL here is an initialism standing for 'age, sex, location'; the components make the meaning clear if the expansion is known, but the abbreviation itself is not self-explanatory to learners unfamiliar with chat initialisms.

Etymology

ASL in online chat is a quick short form made from the first letters of age, sex, location, and people used it to ask basic personal details quickly. So when someone types ASL in a chat they are asking 'age', 'sex', and 'location'.