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DNF
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English
Verb
en verb form
en chiefly sports en did not finish.
en DNS DNQ
en geocaching en did not find.
en internet slang social media en do not follow.
Verb
+ + +,~'ed
To fail to finish, as a sporting event or a piece of media.
en While I used to love them, now I keep DNFing superhero movies.
en 2014 Phil Gaimon Pro Cycling on $10 a Day: From Fat Kid to Euro Pro VeloPress 9781937716554 https://books.google.com/books?id=m6KIBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT165&dq=DNFed&hl=&cd=6&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=DNFed&f=false He'd DNFed and could have gone home an hour earlier, but he wanted to see me win.
en August 10, 2021 Danika Ellis I'm Breaking Up With 3-Star Reads Book Riot https://bookriot.com/im-breaking-up-with-3-star-reads/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210816210610/https://bookriot.com/im-breaking-up-with-3-star-reads/ Others refuse to ever DNF, slowly slogging through even the worst of books. I fall somewhere in the middle. I'll DNF a book early on if I realize I'm unlikely to enjoy it. August 16, 2021
See also
en DSQ
en DQ
en Q
Noun
en mathematics en w:disjunctive normal form.
A failure to finish something, such as a sporting event.
Proper noun
en British cartography en Digital National Framework.
Anagrams
en dfn NDF NFD nfd