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f.s.

American  

abbreviation

  1. foot-second.


f.s. British  

abbreviation

  1. foot-second

"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

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The Georgia native painted himself so much as one of Philly’s own, that it’s amazing Collins didn’t confess he was named with two f’s in honor of the Temple Tuff motto.

From Washington Times • Dec. 14, 2016

Royal looked up and said, ‘I’ve been sitting here for 30 minutes, trying to figure out if professor has one or two f’s in it.’

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2012

Gibbous nose aloft and in fine priggish voice, Master Freddie imparts phonetic reality to an age when Britishers wrote s's that looked like f's.

From Time Magazine Archive

So Loveday buccaneered through garish London night life, dipped her black flag to Charles�"formal, formidable, fastidious," to which descriptive f's Loveday later added "fatuous, fulsome," because of his devotion to a silly mother, self-styled "Petal."

From Time Magazine Archive

It indicates the plurals of letters: How many f’s are there in Fulham?

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author

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