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OOMF
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oomf
English
Pronunciation
en /uːmf/ UK
en /umf/ US
en uːmf 1
Noun
en Internet slang en one of my followers,one of my friends.
en oomf
en oomfie
en I love my OOMFs
en 2022-09-16 w:Emil Wilbekin What Does It Mean to Be a Young, Black Queer Artist Right Now? T (magazine) The New York Times Style Magazine https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/t-magazine/black-queer-artists.html [Jeremy O. Harris:] One of the things I worry about is that the little gay boys and girls I’m friends with don’t meet people their age IRL. They only know people through their oomfs, right? The oomfs run the world.[Devan Shimoyama:] What’s “oomf”?[Jeremy O. Harris:] An oomf is an “O.O.M.F.” — “one of my friends,” as in someone you know only in a digital space, from Twitter or Tumblr. https://web.archive.org/web/20221203101320/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/t-magazine/black-queer-artists.html
Derived terms
en OOMFie,oomfie oomf in law,oomf-in-law
Translations
French: fr oomf
Portuguese: pt oomf m
Tagalog: tl oomf
Turkish: tr oomf, tr uuğumf
See also
en moot mutual follower
en Twitter