GFE

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A form of girlfriend experience — A sexual encounter with a female sex worker within a context where romantic intimacy is provided.

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Meanings

nounGFE (countable and uncountable, plural GFEs)

plural GFEs

  1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablelifestyleInitialism of girlfriend experience.

    She is absolutely a total GFE, no limits, except no Greek.

    2001, (unknown), “ASP: "Julie" of Oral-Land-Oh”, in alt.sex.prostitution (Usenet)
    2 more examples

    For many johns, the most popular feature of being with a prostitute is the so-called Girlfriend Experience, or GFE, where a client pays a prostitute to pretend to be his girlfriend during the session, making it seem more real than simply a business arrangement.

    2011, R. Barri Flowers, Prostitution in the Digital Age: Selling Sex from the Suite to the Street, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 151

    Thus, while these sex tourists are looking for the GFE, they are crucially not looking for a girlfriend.

    2016, Megan Rivers-Moore, Gringo Gulch: Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 58
  2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebusinessInitialism of good-faith estimate.

    As usual, that broker's GFE was off by more than 30% from the final cost.

  3. USabbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of government-furnished equipment: equipment in the possession of or acquired directly by the government, and subsequently delivered to or otherwise made available to the contractor.
  4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of global financial elite.
phrase
  1. InternetabbreviationinitialismvulgarInitialism of Google fucking exists.

    GFE, idiot: look it up yourself and stop bothering me.

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Origin

(Google): Introduced by sex columnist Dan Savage.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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