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What Does FF Mean in a Text?

Gaming Slang for Newbies

If you're new to gaming, then there is more to learn than just a game's moves and strategy. Gamers should also be familiar with gaming slang, which has around 200 terms in common usage, many of which are difficult for new players to guess. But, you should persevere. Understanding gaming jargon improves collaboration by helping gamers to convey complex strategies, emotions, and actions quickly. Here is the term you care about:

FF means "Fan Fiction," "Follow Friday," "Friendly Fire," "Fast Finish," "Forfeit," and "Final Fantasy."

Fan Fiction

In communities centered around literature, movies, or television shows, FF is widely used as an abbreviation to refer to Fan Fiction, i.e., fan-generated stories that use existing characters and settings but with new plots or relationships. For example:

"There's some great FF being written about #Plaid_Harry and #MeghanMarkIe right now!"

Follow Friday

A Twitter tradition where users recommend other profiles to follow on Fridays. FF is used with a hashtag - "#FF" - followed by the usernames of recommended accounts. For example:

"#FF - Check out CyberDefs for any abbreviation or slang term that's got you wondering!"

Friendly Fire / Fast Finish / Forfeit / Final Fantasy

FF is used in gaming with a number of meanings, including:

Friendly Fire - Fire that inadvertently damages or kills another player on the same team.
Fast Finish - Used when a player finishes a game very quickly.
Forfeit - Used when a player can see no hope of progress and decides to surrender or "forfeit" the game.
Final Fantasy - A Japanese science fantasy media franchise, whose video game series is one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time.

For example:

Lee: "I'm down! You dorks have wasted me with your FF!"
Sam: "Sorry. Let's FF and get outta here. I'd rather play FF anyway."

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When I write FF, I mean this:

FF also means "Follow Friday."

Summary of Key Points

We have summarized the key points in the table below:

FF
Definition:	Fan Fiction
Type:	Abbreviation
Guessability:	2: Quite easy to guess
Typical Users:	Adults and Teenagers

Second Definition of FF

"Friendly Fire" is the most common definition for FF in gaming related communications on apps such as Discord, TeamSpeak and Telegram.

FF
Definition:	Friendly Fire (Gaming Term)
Type:	Abbreviation
Guessability:	2: Quite easy to guess
Typical Users:	Adults and Teenagers

Third Definition of FF

"Fast Finish" is another common definition for FF in gaming related communications.

FF
Definition:	Fast Finish (Gaming Term)
Type:	Abbreviation
Guessability:	5: Extremely difficult to guess
Typical Users:	Adults and Teenagers

Fourth Definition of FF

"Forfeit" is another common definition for FF in gaming.

FF
Definition:	Forfeit (Gaming Term)
Type:	Abbreviation
Guessability:	5: Extremely difficult to guess
Typical Users:	Adults and Teenagers

Fifth Definition of FF

"Final Fantasy" is also a common definition for FF in gaming.

FF
Definition:	Final Fantasy (Gaming Term)
Type:	Abbreviation
Guessability:	5: Extremely difficult to guess
Typical Users:	Adults and Teenagers

Sixth Definition of FF

"Follow Friday" is a common definition for FF on Twitter (or X).

FF
Definition:	Follow Friday
Type:	Abbreviation
Guessability:	3: Guessable
Typical Users:	Adults and Teenagers

An Academic Look at FF

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FF is classified as an initialism abbreviation, as it is pronounced one letter at a time. Initialisms are different to acronyms, which are abbreviations spoken as words. Other examples of initialisms are: