What does AR stand for?

Anal Retentive

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Science, medicine, engineering, etc.
Slang/chat, popular culture

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Her relatively clean borders indicate the use of tape, but hints of paint bleed-through from one edge to the other tell us the artist is far from anal retentive, allowing for a painterly texture to exist within her rectangular compositions.

ART IN REVIEW

95 Hardcover SF427 Brandow, a noted New York journalist and essayist, discusses the first 30 years of New York City's "poop scoop" law, noting how it still stirs up arguments about sanitation standards, libertarianism and even anal retentive behavior.

New York's poop scoop law; dogs, the dirt, and due process

I suppose you could consider me anal retentive," he said.

The organization man: when you're responsible for everything from ...

Copy editors don't object to being called anal retentive, they just debate whether the term should be hyphenated.

Let's give a hand to the newspaper's toughest critics

Explaining her interest in her great-grandmother she says: "I'd like to find out why the women in our family are so obsessive - because I am the same: controlfreak, ball-breaker, anal retentive, pain-inthearse, that sort of thing.

PICK OF THE NIGHT; Television

She says I am obsessive, I have fixations, I'm an anal retentive .

ME & MRS C; By Billy Connolly

Football hacks will fight tooth and nail to get an exclusive "over the moon" quote and come over all anal retentive over someone stealing their scoop.

Spurs row was all in the mind