WUWCB

What Does WUWCB Mean in a Text?

The Quick Answer

WUWCB means "What do you want to chat about?" (What (do) You Want (to) Chat 'Bout?)

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WUWCB is commonly used as a way of beginning or continuing a conversation and shares the same meaning as WUWCA (What do you want to chat about?). Interestingly, in astrological analysis, the initialism abbreviation WUWCB has the "life path" of the number nine. This method of analysis attributes specific personality traits to letters of the alphabet and subsequently to the people who have chosen to use them when texting or using the internet. According to this astrological method, people who use this short form possess caring, compassionate, forceful and over-eager characteristics. It is nonsense, of course. Believing generalizations is known as the Barnum Effect.

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When I write WUWCB, I mean this:

WUWCB means "What do you want to chat about?"

Summary of Key Points

"What do You Want to Chat about?" is, by far, the most common meaning for WUWCB when it is used in a text. (Bear in mind that it could have another meaning if used in a different context.)

WUWCB
Definition:	What do You Want to Chat about?
Type:	Abbreviation
Guessability:	2: Quite easy to guess
Typical Users:	Adults and Teenagers

Examples of WUWCB in Sentences

Here are examples of WUWCB in conversations:

• Tony: Is anyone around to talk? I'm so bored.
• Jordan: I am. WUWCB?

• Tony: Hiya, I'm just on my break. I need to talk to someone.
• Jordan: WUWCB?

An Academic Look at WUWCB

As it is pronounced using its individual letters (i.e., "Dublyu Yu Dublyu Cee Bee"), WUWCB is classified as an initialism abbreviation. Initialisms are different to acronyms, which are spoken like words. WUWCB plays the role of an interrogative sentence (i.e., a question), but it is commonly seen without a question mark. In other words, it can be written "WUWCB?" or "WUWCB".

What Did We Say before Texting and Social Media?

Before the digital era, we might have said something like "What would you like to talk about?" instead of WUWCB.

Example of WUWCB Used in a Text

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