BTFO

B3T1F4O1

Initialism of back the fuck off or butt the fuck out.

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Meanings

verb
  1. InternetabbreviationinitialismvulgarInitialism of back the fuck off or butt the fuck out.

    NO, Nate! I will not BTFO! Dammit! I mean, I won't back off!

    2011, Ashley E. Dozier, KTHNX, →ISBN
    3 more examples

    BTFO! Back WAY off! This kind of ranting doesn't belong here and is only tangentially involved (if at all) with the issue at hand.

    1995 May 31, Dan Morisseau, “Scanning Ethics or "S”, in rec.radio.scanner (Usenet)

    “I'm Liv, and I'm Tyler's girlfriend,” I emphasized. “So that would make him my boyfriend, and give me the right to say: please BTFO.”

    2013, Brittany Watson, Blaze Earl and Nikta, A Long Way to Go, →ISBN

    Maybe you should take Emmett's advice and BTFO (Butt The Fuck Out). Leave him be. Give him the time and space to get his life changed for the better.

    2015 April 19, pandora, “A Little Message to This Group”, in alt.usenet.kooks (Usenet)
adjectiveBTFO (not comparable)
  1. Internetabbreviationinitialismnot comparablevulgarInitialism of blown the fuck out or broke the fuck off; utterly defeated or rejected.

    Either they come out and support him and this weakens the divide they have been trying to build, or they come out in support of the protests and get BTFO by their own supporters (like Ratboy Cruz now).

    2016 March 13, brian mitchell, “Protests”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet)
    1 more example

    It stood for Broke the Fuck Off. By the time we made it back to California, he was well beyond the threshold of BTFO as he dragged himself and his gear into the Shaft and immediately asked us to administer an IV for him

    2013, Jared Maxwell, Unsung: Memoirs of an Infantryman, →ISBN, page 199
proper noun
  1. USabbreviationinitialismeducationInitialism of Before the Fall Orientation.

    I only knew it had something to do with plans for a diversity panel during BTFO.

    2017, Melinda Worth Popham, Grace Period: My Ordination to the Ordinary, →ISBN
Cite this entry
APA

BTFO. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/BTFO

MLA

“BTFO.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/BTFO. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “BTFO,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/BTFO.

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