Alf

American  

[alf, ahlf] / ælf, ɑlf /

noun

1. a first name, form of Alfred.

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ALF ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. Animal Liberation Front

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alf ² British  

/ ælf /

noun

1. derogatory  an uncultivated Australian

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Etymology

Origin of alf

from shortening of the name Alfred

Example Sentences

Labour peer Alf Dubs, who fled to the UK on the Kindertransport to escape the Nazi pogroms, said he was "depressed" by the government adopting such a "hardline" approach, which he said would not "deter people from coming here".

From BBC

Haaland's father, Alf Inge, played at the 1994 tournament.

From BBC

“And because I was so intrigued by the show, and I really, really wanted to work with Russell on ‘The Simpsons,’ I went back and I listened to those old episodes — because I want to honor the musical language that Alf left, and that Danny Elfman left.”

From Los Angeles Times

So, when composer Alf Clausen was recruited in the sophomore season of Groening’s popular new show about a yellow nuclear family and answered a request to use theremin — a small lectern with two metal antennae sticking out, which a musician plays by moving their hand in the space between — in the inaugural “Treehouse of Horror” episode in October 1990, Groening immediately recognized it was a fake; it was bouncing around the scale in a way a real theremin can’t do.

From Los Angeles Times

There is no neutral estimate of political endorsements for the presidential election of 1936, but Franklin D. Roosevelt guessed that 85 percent of the press endorsed his opponent, Alf Landon.

From Salon