What is Au?
1.
AU simply means alternate universe in fan fiction forums. You take a famous person and make them unfamous, make them "normal."
In this story, Elvis never sang and he became a chef.
2.
"AU" - the symbol for gold on the Periodical Table of Elements
A valuable metal with a yellowish color
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An AU fic is a fanfic which includes elements of a book which are completely unfeasible.
That Harry Potter fic where his parents were still alive was totally an AU.
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4.
The astronomical unit (AU or au or a.u. or rarely ua) is a unit of distance, approximately equal to the mean distance between Earth and Sun. The currently accepted value of the AU is 149,597,870,691 ± 30 metres (about 150 million kilometres or 93 million miles).
That star is x AU's away from Earth.
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Abbreviation for American University, A school of highly affluent, overly intellectual, and often-times pretentious students. It is not uncommon to be sitting in an AU classroom and have a prince, the daughter of a Fortune 500 CEO, and an ambassador's son within a 4-foot radius.
American University is world-renowned for its top-rated School of International Studies.
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'Au' is also a Finnish word and it means the same as '
A: Viilsin vahingossa sormeni auki. (I accidentally slit my finger open.)
B: Au. (Ouch.)
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7.
So you wanna know what it means, au?
The word 'Au' Originally comes from the Maori Languge (of New Zealand) meaning 'friend' or something similair.
It's used at the end of any/every scentance to round it off...usually used by "New Zealand Gangsta's"
WCC Member1:Where the fuck have you been, au!
WCC Member 2:I just been wit my
missus - mind your own business, cunt. You got some cock to talk to me like that, au.