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Spotted your teen texting about wanting to “KPC”? It’s not a typo about hitting Kentucky Fried Chicken. She’s more likely intent on “keeping parents clueless.” As many parents are just now discovering, there’s a veritable dictionary of acronyms like this one, created for that exact purpose, and used widely online in social media and texting apps.

Cool Mom Tech’s cheat sheet includes more lingo about concealing activity from mom and dad:

PIR = Parent in room

PAL = Parents are Listening

AITR = Adult in the room

PAW = Parents are Watching

PA or PA911 = Parent Alert

CD9 or Code 9 = Parent around

99 = Parent gone

303 = Mom

But the above acronyms aren’t the most concerning when it comes to teens, Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) program manager Denise DeRosa tells Yahoo Parenting. It’s the sex stuff. And the list of lingo about sexual activity is long – not to mention, graphic:

GNOC = Get naked on camera

GYPO = Get your pants off

IWSN= I want sex now

LH6 = Let’s have sex

CU46 = See you for sex

53X= Sex

8 = Oral sex

TDTM = Talk dirty to me

PRON= Porn

IPN= I’m posting naked

NIFOC= Naked in front of computer

WTTP= Want to trade pictures?

 ?^= Want to Hook Up? 

NSA=No Strings Attached

RU/18 = Are You Over 18?

I&I = Intercourse & Inebriation

“The most important thing is to talk to kids about what they’re doing online,” says DeRosa. “Of course kids are going to change the acronyms they use as soon as parents catch on, but you don’t want them to feel like they always have to be hiding things. The more overbearing you are, the faster they’ll find a new way to make sure you don’t see what they’re doing.”