R

R has 2 meanings
1. What is r short for in messages and online?

Are

People often use "r" online and in messages as an abbreviation for "are." For example, you may ask your friend, "r u coming to the party 2nite?"

Since "r" is a common abbreviation, you will likely see it in various contexts by itself or as part of an acronym, such as RUB and RUOK. For example, you may see it online when gaming, DMing someone, or scrolling social media.

R is one of many single-letter abbreviations that sounds the same as the word it is short for. Other abbreviations include o for "oh," y for "why," u for "you," and c for "see."

Example

How r u doing this morning?
Amazn, thx! U?
R U OK tweet
R U OK tweet

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Updated April 3, 2023
2. What is r short for?

Runs

A baseball statistic used to keep track of the amount of runs a team or player has scored and allowed; commonly used in the context of offensive production to show the amount of times a player has scored; closely associated with the RBI stat that records the number of runs batted in by a player.

Example

Cabrera is responsible for 3 of the 5 R scored today

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Updated April 22, 2015

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