[ **up: [[Internet slang]]** ] --- # TL;DR > **TL;DR** or **tl;dr**, short for “too long; didn’t read”, is internet slang often used to introduce a summary of an online post or news article. It is also used as an informal interjection commenting that a block of text has been ignored due to its length.[^1] [^1]: ‘TL;DR’, *Wikipedia*, updated 8 December 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TL;DR.