Glossary and Abbreviations

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Basics

BYM= Backyard Monsters
HCC= Hatchery Control Center
ST= Sniper Tower
CT= Cannon Tower
LT= Laser Tower
MH= Monster Housings
MB= Monster Bunker
TT= Tesla Tower
ADT= Aerial Defense Tower
SDT= Silo Death Trap (A set of traps around the Silos and Town Hall.)
ODT= Outpost Death Trap (A set of traps around an outpost)
WMT= Wild Monster Tribe
OP= Overpowered
UP= Underpowered
Shiny= Perhaps the most valuable thing in Backyard Monsters. You can use it for almost anything in the game.
WM= Wild Monsters/World Map
WMB= Wild Monster Baiter
Decor= Decorations
UM= Universal Map
Acad= Academy
Nuke= Referred to 10M pebble catapults, 2M pebble catapults, 5M twigs, 10M putty and 5M putty catapults.
OP= Outposts. After destroying 90% of a base, you can take that base over, its called an Outpost.
NOOB= Commonly used to refer to a new player, or a player which doesn't know anything.
PX= Project X
PX10PR= Project X with 10 Million putty rage.
PPX= Project X with 10M putty rage.
TH= Town Hall
Traps= Booby Traps/Heavy Traps.
RG= Resource Gatherer
CF= Concentration of Firepower/ Concentrated Firepower.
Silo Death Trap= Arranging your traps to destroy any looting waves trying to loot your Silos,long word for SDT.
Entrances= An opening for monsters to enter your base. (Best used at the strongest point of your base.)
Branching= when monsters are split into two or more groups.
DP= Damage Protection.
Bump= To make a thread alive again, Or make it reach to the first post in a certain section
Spammer= Referred to a person double posting the same thing, or trolling multiple times.

Layouts/Terms

Horseshoe= A base layout shaped as a Horseshoe
Sandwich= A base that has two thick walls surrounding two sides of TH/Silos.
NECORG= A ring of Resource Gatherers around your base.
NEC= Never Ending Chain. Formed using useless buildings (E.G. Hatcheries, General Store ETC.) to create an outer layer of your base,used for stalling monsters.
NECOD= Something like a NEC, except that the buildings are useless (General Store, Monster Locker, ETC)
NEPOH= Fixed base, now useless.
BDB= Big Dumb Bunch. All towers squeezed together, No places in between. Used to be the strongest layout until the catapult came in.
BBDB= Bigger/Better Big Dumb Bunch. A gap of a block is in between a tower in a BDB for
making it harder to catapult.
VBDB= V shaped BDB, i think.
Donut= A ring of towers that surrounds the TH.
Eye Of Sauron,(A.K.A EOS)= A bigger ring around the TH, But somehow has a CF than the Donut.
The Queue= Two towers together forming a line. Usually place with a General Store beside it to make it anti Catapultish.
The Barbie= EXTINCT,barbie shaped design.
Ace Of Spades= An old layout of a BBDB but shaped like an ace.
Checkerboard= A layout which looks like a checkerboard.