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• af
  af

  abbreviation

  as fuck; to a great degree (a euphemistic initialism used as a general intensifier, without explicit vulgarity).
• AF
  AF

  abbreviation

  Air Force.
• af-
  af-

  variant of ad- before f: affect.
• Af.
  Af.

  abbreviation

  Africa.
• a.f.
  a.f.

  abbreviation

  audio frequency.
• A.F.
  A.F.

  abbreviation

  Air Force.
• A/F
  A/F

  abbreviation

  as found

af

¹ American  

[ey-ef, af] / ˈeɪˈɛf, æf /

Or AF

abbreviation

Slang.

1. as fuck; to a great degree (a euphemistic initialism used as a general intensifier, without explicit vulgarity).

   He’s annoying af.

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AF ² American  

abbreviation

1. Air Force.

2. Anglo-French.

3. Asian female.

4. Pathology. atrial fibrillation.

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af- ³ American  

1. variant of ad- before f: affect.

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Af. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. Africa.

2. African.

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a.f. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. audio frequency.

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A.F. ⁶ American  

abbreviation

1. Air Force.

2. Anglo-French.

3. audio frequency.

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AF ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. Anglo-French

2. automatic focus

3. audio frequency

4. (in Canada) Air Force

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A/F ² British  

abbreviation

1. as found

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a.f. ³ British  

abbreviation

1. audio frequency

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af ⁴ British  

abbreviation

1. Afghanistan

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Etymology

Origin of af

First recorded in 2005–10

Example Sentences

She went back to Hongkong, confronted Townsend, told him, one af- ternoon, what an ass she thought he was.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chick Evans and young Roland Mackenzie played fiercely at each other's heels until in the late shadows of a nerve-straining af- ternoon.

From Time Magazine Archive

NOTE.—The forms ac-, af-, etc., are euphonic variations of ad-, and follow generally the rule that the final consonant of the prefix assimilates to the initial letter of the root.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

It appears as a-, ab-, ac-, ad-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, as in achieve, abbreviate, accede, admire, affix, aggregate, allot, annex, approve, arrive, assign, attract.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

De Spaansche admiraalsvlag werd ingenomen en bleef gedurende twee uur om den stok geslagen, terwijl de galei tusschen het kleine jacht en het admiraalschip af- en aanvoer.

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