LGTM

English

Etymology

Said to have originated within Google, early 2000s, originally to give positive feedback on other people's work in a code review.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĕl jē tē ĕm
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɛl d͡ʒiː tiː ɛm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /el d͡ʒiː tiː em/
• (General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɛl d͡ʒi ti ɛm/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ɛ(ː)l d͡ʒiː ʈiː ɛ(ː)m/

• Hyphenation: LGTM

Phrase

LGTM(informal, originally programming jargon)

2. Initialism of looks good to me.
   • 2020, Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright, “Code Review”, in Software Engineering at Google […] ‎^[1], O'Reilly, →ISBN:

     The primary end goal of a code review is to get another engineer to consent to the change, which we denote by tagging the change as “looks good to me” (LGTM). We use this LGTM as a necessary permissions “bit” (combined with the other bits noted below) to allow the change to be committed.

Further reading

• “LGTM”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.