Meanings
FAFO1
present singular third person FAFOs · participle present FAFOing · participle past FAFOed · past FAFOed · alternative Fafo
- abbreviationacronymvulgarAcronym of fuck around and find out.
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Amid a dispute over deportations with Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro in January, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform an AI-generated image of himself wearing a fedora with the letters FAFO in red on a sign next to him. “This is awesome,” Musk said, resharing the image on X. Trump had previously reshared a post by right-wing internet troll that said “5 days until FAFO” alongside an image of Trump, on Jan. 15, five days before Trump’s second-term inauguration.
2025 May 29, Miranda Jeyaretnam and Chad de Guzman, “From MAHA to TACO—A Guide to the Acronyms of Trump’s Second Term”, in TIME, archived from the original on 31 May 2025
Fafo2
present singular third person Fafos · participle present Fafoing · participle past Fafoed · past Fafoed
- Alternative letter-case form of FAFO.
The potential trade war could be the most far-reaching exercise in Fafo of Trump’s second term.
2025 January 27, David Charter, “Fafo diplomacy: How Colombia found out Trump meant business”, in The Times, archived from the original on 27 Jan 20251 more example
Gonzalez, 41, is from Los Angeles, raised by Mexican parents “in a Fafo style, now I think of it”. […] Typical Fafo examples that have emerged online include forgoing the battle to get a child to wear their coat and letting them get cold instead, or letting them go to bed hungry if they refuse to eat their dinner.
2026 January 29, Emine Saner, “The rise of Fafo parenting: is this the end of gentle child rearing?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
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FAFO. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/FAFO
“FAFO.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/FAFO. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “FAFO,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/FAFO.
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