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FFS (other)
FFS is a commonly used initialism for ''"for fuck's sake"''. It is often said or typed as a form of minced oath by abbreviation. "FFS" may also refer to: Computing * Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme, in cryptography * Find first set, a type of bit operation * FreeFileSync, a software package File systems * Flash file system * Formatted File System * Amiga Fast File System * Unix File System often called Fast File System Music * FFS (band), a rock supergroup of Franz Ferdinand and Sparks ** FFS (album), ''FFS'' (album), their debut album Organizations Political organizations * For our Future’s Sake, a UK campaign group calling for a public vote (People's Vote) on the final Brexit deal * Social Forces Front (French: '), a political party in Burkina Faso * Socialist Forces Front (French: '), a political party in Algeria Other organizations * Frankford Friends School, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States * French Federation of Speleology * Swiss Federal Rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Initialism
An acronym is a type of abbreviation consisting of a phrase whose only pronounced elements are the initial letters or initial sounds of words inside that phrase. Acronyms are often spelled with the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation. For some, an initialism or alphabetism connotes this general meaning, and an ''acronym'' is a subset with a narrower definition; an acronym is pronounced as a word rather than as a sequence of letters. In this sense, ''NASA'' () is an acronym, but '' USA'' () is not. The broader sense of ''acronym'', ignoring pronunciation, is its original meaning and in common use. . Dictionary and style-guide editors dispute whether the term ''acronym'' can be legitimately applied to abbreviations which are not pronounced as words, and they do not agree on acronym spacing, casing, and punctuation. The phrase that the acronym stands for is called its . The of an acronym includes both its expansion and the meaning of its expans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
