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Right, TSA even refers to it as "TSA PreCheck" on their website: https://www.tsa.gov/precheck

Until this specific thread I've never seen or heard it referred to as "TSA Pre". It has always been precheck. I suppose now I'll start to notice people doing it.

I'm just lazy and call it TSA Pre. :)

Hmm. So it's a deliberate abbreviation? I'd always assumed that folks who referred to it that way didn't know the actual name because of the icon in place of 'check'.

In my case it is. I'm sure a lot of people do it because of the check mark.