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Not In My Back Yard

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Not In My Blue Yonder

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Not In a Million Billion Years

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Not Intimidated Much By Yelling

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National Industrial Material By-product Yield

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Never Intervening Maliciously Before Yesterday

Miscellaneous » Funnies

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Nuclear Infants May Blast You

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Not In My Back-Yard

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Northern Illinois Manufacturing Business Yearly

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Network Inventory Modeling Base YANG

Miscellaneous » Unclassified

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Nit In Muck Buck Yuck

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What does NIMBY mean?

NIMBY(noun)
someone who objects to siting something in their own neighborhood but does not object to it being sited elsewhere; an acronym for not in my backyard

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