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KITT, the GOP, and What It All Means
Top "What Does" Searches This Week
Sunday night, NBC broadcast the TV movie "Knight Rider," an updated sequel to the classic '80s series. The show dominated the ratings, stirred up buzz, and provoked one major question in searchers' minds: "what does kitt stand for"? Answer: "Knight Industries Three Thousand."
Meanwhile, voters from across the country have been hitting the Web in huge numbers to ask "what does gop mean." Response: Grand Old Party, a venerable term for the Republican Party. The Wall Street Journal stopped using the initials in 2002, saying that people don't know what "GOP" means anymore. That may be true, but the people seem interested in finding out.
A crime-fighting car and a right-leaning political organization aren't the only things sparking definition searches this week. A slew of acronyms, initials, terms, and Internet slang have incited lookups on what-does-such-and-such-mean. Here are the top 20. See if you can get them all...
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