# TLDR

Pronunciation: US say "tee-el-dee-AHR" /ˌti ɛl di ˈɑɹ/; UK say "tee-el-dee-AH" /ˌtiː ɛl diː ˈɑː/

## Phrase

1. Initialism of "too long; didn't read": said of a text too long to bother with, or used to introduce a brief summary of it.
   - Simple: Short for "too long, didn't read." People write it about a long text, or just before a short summary of it.
   - _The report was dense, so an editor added a TLDR summarizing the key findings._
   - _Most readers skip straight to the TLDR before deciding whether to read on._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/tldr (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).