Here is the list of all the sneaker terms we know off. We’re probably missing a few, so if you know any NOT on the list, send us an email at info@kicktopia.com.

• Lowball - To offer well below the actual asking price/worth of the item.
• NIB - New In Box
• NWT - New With Tags
• NWOT - New Without Tags
• OBO - Or Best Offer
• Shipped / Landed - The total price for an item, including shipping.
• YGM - You Got Mail
• LMK - Let Me Know
• LYK - Let You Know
• Ballpark - General price range for an item.
• Gravedigging - Posting in a very old topic, bringing it to the top.
• Postwhoring/Freeposting - Posting in a huge number of topics (usually in one forum) in a short period of time. Typically the posts are useless or add nothing to the topic.
• LOL - Laughing Out Loud
• <3 - Heart (look at it sideways). Usually means “love.”
• PS - Adobe Photoshop, the image editing application.
• ROFL - Rolling On the Floor Laughing
• Newbie - Someone who is new to a website/message board.
• G.O.A.T. - Greatest Of All Time
• J’s - Air Jordans
• OG - Originals, used to differentiate between retros.
• Beaters - Usually shoes that someone wears without care. For example, a pair worn so much that someone will wear them in the rain and not care.
• PL - Patent leather
• CL - Classic lining
• GR - General Release, a shoe released to major chains.
• GS - General School, refers to kid sizes of shoes.
• Grails/Holy Grails - Your personal most sought after shoe(s). Usually hard to obtain.
• JB - Jordan Brand, makers of the Air Jordan shoe line. Part of Nike.
• Uptowns - Air Force 1s
• FL - Finishline
• FA - Footaction
• AF - Athlete’s Foot
• NT - Niketown or Niketalk.
• NDC - Niketown.com
• Urban accounts - Stores that have a special type of account that allows them to receive limited and special releases.
• RD- Release Date, when a shoe is released to the public.
• Fakes - Variant shoes, usually referring to knockoff Nikes that look almost exactly like the originals.
• BG/B-Grades - Shoes that have a factory error on them, such as excess glue. Usually does not come with a box, and has “B”
• stamped on the inside. Sometimes the difference to an A-Grade is almost unnoticeable.
• Lace locks - Little latches that ‘lock’ the laces in place. Seen on Jordan Vs and VIs first.
• Heat - just means any hot/dope/awesome/nice shoes (pl.)
• Frenchies - A french blue colorway. Commonly used for Jordan VIIs or XIIs retroes.
• Olys - Any Olympic colorway. A special markup used in the summer Olympics. Usually refers to the Jordan VI or VII.
• DMP - Defining Moments Pack by Brand Jordan
• Breads - Any black/red colorway (combined to form ‘bread’). Commonly used for Jordan IVs, XIs, and XIIs.
• Space Jams - The Jordan XI (black/royal blue/white) colorway seen in the movie Space Jam. (abbreviation: SJs)
• True Blues - Used for the Jordan III retro colorway (white/true blue). (abbreviation: TBs)
  
• Cool Greys - Any ‘cool grey’ colorway. Commonly used for Jordan XIs, IXs, or IVs retros. (abbreviation: CGs)
  
• Carmines - The very rare Jordan VI carmine colorway.
  
• Concords - The popular white/black colorway of the Jordan XI.
  
• Columbias - The hue of blue used for the UNC tarheels. Used for the popular white/columbia/black colorway of the Jordan XI.
  
• Flints - Grey hue commonly used for either the blue mids colorway of the Jordan XIII (blue/grey/white) or the retro of the
• Jordan XII (white/grey).
  
• Lightnings - The white/lightning colorway of the low Jordan XVII.
  
• Black toes - The very rare black toe colorway of the Jordan I.
  
• Laneys - Laney is the high school Michael Jordan went to. Laneys refer to the Jordan V in Jordan’s high school colors
• (white/royal/maize).
  
• Aquas - The rare OG colorway of the Jordan VIII in black/bright concord/aqua tone.
  
• Cardinals - The white/black/cardinal colorway of the Jordan VII.
  
• Wheats - The white/wheat colorway of the Jordan XIII retro.
  
• Militaries - The rare (soon to be retroed) military blue/white colorway of the Jordan IV.
  
• Cements - Any colorway with cement print, usually refers to the white/red/cement or the black/red/cement colorways of the
• Jordan III.
  
• Infrareds - Usually refers to the black/deep infrared Jordan VI or the white/deep infrared Air Max 90.
  
• Melos - The Jordan II retro that was made in a carolina blue/yellow/white colorway to match the Denver Nugget’s jerseys (for which Carmelo Anthony plays).
  
• Altitudes - The black/altitude green colorway of the Jordan XIII.
• Sheed - Any Air Force 1 that are made in special colorways for Rasheed Wallace.
  
• Playoffs - Any Jordan that Jordan wore in the playoffs, usually refers to the black/white colorway of the Jordan XII.
  
• Hares - The black/dark charcoal/true red colorway of the Jordan VII. Called “Hares” because they appeared in ads with Bugs Bunny.
  
• 90s - Air Max 90 running shoes.
  
• 95s - Air Max 95 running shoes.
• GR - General Release
• SB - Skateboarding
• Hyperstrike - 24 pairs*
• Quickstrike - Limited Quantities (not sure how many)*
• HTM - Hiroshi Fujiwara (DJ/Designer)
• Tinker Hatfield (Nike shoes designer)
• Mark Parker (Nike Vice President)
• B.U.M.P - Bring Up My Post
• DS - Dead stock, Unworn, Freshness
• VNDS - Very Near Dead stock.
• HTF – Hard to Find
• LE – Limited Edition
• WTB - want to buy
• WTS – Want to sell
• WTF – What the fuck
• FT – For trade
• HTS - hard to sell
• SP - Skate Pros
• SC - Sports Classic
• COJP - Concept Japan
• B - ‘Branded’
• Plus, or ‘+’- Retro-version of an OG model, but in a different color way from the OG
• TB - ‘Team Bank’
• AP - Asia Pacific
• WP - Water-Proof
• SMU - ‘Special Make Up’
• Variant, Factory Reject, Grade A Replica – Fake
• X - Its collaboration between two brands or labels or Crossover
• OG - That’s short for ORIGINAL or first editions or vintage. It may definite to describe the COLOURWAY (color combination of sneaker) e.g. Nike Air Safari OG colourway

*For Hyperstrike releases, there will be a Quickstrike release as well. However, there will be slight differences between the Hyperstrike and Quickstrike versions such as different tags on the tongue, different shoe boxes or extra freebies that come along with the sneakers.The list has been done with the help of the NikeSB.org forum.