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See also: Appendix:Variations of "aam"
Translingual
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- (international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Mala Mala Airport, which serves Mala Mala Game Reserve, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
English
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[edit]AAM (plural AAMs)
- (journalism) Initialism of Alliance for Audited Media.
- (military) Initialism of air-to-air missile.
- (sexuality) Initialism of adult-attracted minor (see usage notes on MAP).
- Coordinate term: MAP
- 2022 June 10, Ben Goggin, “Wickr, Amazon’s encrypted chat app, has a child sex abuse problem — and little is being done to stop it”, in NBC News[1]:
- One user appeared to be selling child sexual abuse material, writing "Sixteen is a cool number" and "Sells to anyone" alongside a Wickr handle and the acronyms "map" and "aam," which stand for minor-attracted-person and adult-attracted-minor respectively.