WTF

== English == === Alternative forms === wtf, W.T.F., W. T. F. === Etymology === (programming slang): Originated on The Daily WTF, a humorous blog dealing with real-world examples of bad programming. === Phrase === WTF (military slang, Internet slang, text messaging, vulgar) Initialism of what the fuck. 2019, 20 November, Carol Midgley, "Prince Andrew is ‘not very quick on his feet’, says the Duchess of York. What of her?" (in The Times newspaper) WTF was that about? (rare, vulgar) Where the fuck, why the fuck, when the fuck, or who the fuck. ==== Usage notes ==== WTF, like the full expression what the fuck, may be used either to introduce a question or as an interjection: WTF is sometimes spelled or written out in the NATO phonetic alphabet: whiskey tango foxtrot. WTF is not usually considered as offensive as the full expression what the fuck. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Proper noun === WTF (sports, taekwondo, dated, 1973–2017) Initialism of World Taekwondo Federation. Synonym: WT === Noun === WTF (plural WTFs) Initialism of White's tree frog. (programming, slang) A bafflingly bad or unwise design decision. [3] I think coercing numbers to booleans is a WTF - 0 should not be evaluatable as a boolean, it should be a type mismatch. [4] React attempts to wrap the browser DOM API and it's [sic] conventions in a way that's (for people who use it) easier to reason about, that's kind of like saying Anvil is a WTF because it wraps Vulcan === Anagrams === FTW, TfW, ftw, tfw