FAFO

F4A1F4O1
/ˈfeɪfoʊ/

A form of fuck around and find out — To experience the negative consequences of engaging in a risky course of action.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

FAFO1

verbFAFO (third-person singular simple present FAFOs, present participle FAFOing, simple past and past participle FAFOed)

present singular third person FAFOs · participle present FAFOing · participle past FAFOed · past FAFOed · alternative Fafo

  1. abbreviationacronymvulgarAcronym of fuck around and find out.
    1 more example

    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

verbFafo (third-person singular simple present Fafos, present participle Fafoing, simple past and past participle Fafoed)

present singular third person Fafos · participle present Fafoing · participle past Fafoed · past Fafoed

  1. 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 2025
    1 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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APA

FAFO. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/FAFO

MLA

“FAFO.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/FAFO. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “FAFO,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/FAFO.

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