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fave

American  
[feyv] / feɪv /
Or fav

noun

Slang.
  1. favorite.


fave British  
/ feɪv /

adjective

  1. informal  short for favourite favourite

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of fave

First recorded in 1935–40; by shortening

Example Sentences

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A critics’ fave from the get-go, Snider earned rave reviews with 2004’s “East Nashville Skyline,” whose highlights include a characteristically wordy depiction of the culture wars then roiling America in the wake of 9/11 — “Conservative, Christian, Right Wing Republican, Straight, White, American Males,” it’s called — and “The Ballad of the Kingsmen,” in which he contemplates the meaning of the lyrics to “Louie Louie.”

From Los Angeles Times

Both artists are part of a growing number of women of color making alternative rock — think also of Beabadoobee, whom Alemeda singles out as a fave — in an era when streaming and social media have dismantled some of the old orthodoxies regarding genre and identity.

From Los Angeles Times

Skies, who adopted her great-grandmother's name, said she co-wrote Madeline, Sleepwalking, Let You W/in, which she described as "my fave", as well as Dallas Major, Relapse and Beg For Me.

From BBC

Holler praise for your fave player.

From The Wall Street Journal

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” has a double-digit lead over Chloé Zhao’s festival fave “Hamnet,” which is tightly bunched with Ryan Coogler’s very original blockbuster “Sinners” and Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite.”

From Los Angeles Times