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| Lackey | Geocaching.com Term Lackeys are actual employees (and owners) of Groundspeak, the company that owns Geocaching.com. It's a term of affection, of course. |
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| Latitude | Technical Term Latitude is the angular distance, in degrees, minutes, and seconds of a point north or south of the Equator. Lines of latitude are often referred to as parallels. Personally I remember the different between latitude and longitude by remember that "lat" sounds like "flat." Works for me anyway. |
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| LEO | Geocaching Slang/Abbreviation "Law Enforcement Officer." |
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| Letterbox Hybrid Cache | Geocaching Term/Geocache Type  A geocache that combines elements of Letterboxing (another treasure hunting game). These caches are often near the listed coordinates but require the cacher to follow a set of clues to the exact location.
For more information on Letterboxing, visit the Letterboxing North America website. |
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| Letterboxing | Game A game similar to geocaching but much older. Letterboxes are found through a series of clues rather than GPS coordinates. The boxes contain a logbook and a stamp (sometimes hand carved) which is used to mark the letterboxer's own logbook. The letterboxer in turn marks the logbook inside the letterbox with his or her own stamp. Letterbox Hybrids are geocaches that incorporate elements of letterboxing. For more information visit Letterboxing.org. |
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| LOC | Geocaching Term Similar to a GPX data file but provides less information (GCID, cache name and coordinates). LOC files are free from Geocaching.com as opposed to GPX files which require paid premium membership. |
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| Locationless Cache | Geocaching Term/Geocache Type  Locationless (or “Reverse Caches”) were a type of geocache where the job of the cacher was to find a location that matched the category set up by the owner. For example: if the cache owner’s category was “Natural Land Bridges,” the cacher would have to find a place on the earth that matched that category and record the coordinates for that location (often accompanying it with a photograph).
Locationless caches are no longer published on Geocaching.com. Instead, these have been worked into the concept of the game Waymarking. |
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| Longitude | Technical Term Longitude is the angular distance, in degrees, minutes, and seconds, of a point east or west of the Prime (Greenwich) Meridian. Lines of longitude are often referred to as meridians. Personally I remember the difference between longitude and latitude by remembering that longitude starts with "long" and these lines run longways around the earth. |
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| LPC | Slang/Abbreviation Shorthand for "Lamp Post Cache." It refers to caches hidden at the base of lamp posts (often under the skirting). |
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Glossary V2.0 |
The geocaching glossary is always growing and developing just as the game is. One feature of the Geocacher University glossary is that--in addition to searching terms in this page--you will find definitions within the articles and content of the site. Simply put your mouse over the linked terms (identified with this question mark 
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