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TL (plural TLs)

(translation studies) Initialism of target language.
Antonym: SL
Abbreviation of team leader.
(Internet) Abbreviation of timeline.
Alternative form: tl
- 2025 September 18, Desjah, “Wait, WHAT?! Chrisean Rock’s Foot Antics With HoodTrophy Bino Got The TL Stressed (VIDEO)”, in The Shade Room‎, Los Angeles, Calif., archived from the original on 18 September 2025:
  TL Lost All Composure After That Clip […] And of course, there are plenty who said she just pisses them off so bad, but hey, you can’t deny she keeps the timeline entertained.
(slang, dated) Initialism of trade-last.
- 1922, Thomas Lansing Masson, Our American Humorists, page 201:
  Nothing about my natural charms no more, an egg's age since anybody had called me to 1 side and whispered "I got a T. L. for you. Gertie thinks your ears is immense."
- 1997, Joan Mellen, Hellman and Hammett, page 71:
  So autobiographical was The Children's Hour that there are even “TL's” between the children, those “trade lasts” in which people must come up with compliments they have heard about each other, a game which amused Lily […]
(informal) Abbreviation of translation.
Alternative form: tl
(informal) Abbreviation of translator.
Alternative form: tl
(informal) Abbreviation of translator 's note / translation note.
Alternative form: tl
(ecology) Initialism of trophic level.
Abbreviation of Turkish lira.
Synonym: ₺
Abbreviation of turntable ladder.

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