noun Technical meaning of tlas (jargon) As of 2014-08-14, this dictionary included 1285 three-letter acronyms, which is 7% of the 26^3 = 17576 possible. Here's a grep command to find them: egrep '^[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]$' Dictionary or a GNU Emacs command: (occur "^[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z]$") Here they are: 1