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STFW

Specialty Definition: STFW

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STFW imp. /S-T-F-W/ [Usenet] Commmon abbreviation for "Search The Fucking Web", a suggestion that what you're asking for is a query better handled by a search engine than a human being. Usage is common and exactly parallel to both senses of RTFM. Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: STFW

Specialty definitions using "STFW": RTFM. (references)

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Anagrams: STFW

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "f-s-t-w"
 

+1 letter: swift, wafts, wefts.

 

+2 letters: fatwas, fewest, frowst, swifts.

 

+3 letters: fretsaw, frowsts, frowsty, swifter, swiftly, twofers, upwafts, wafters, wistful.

 

+4 letters: batfowls, dwarfest, fanworts, fatwoods, fawniest, felworts, fewtrils, figworts, fitchews, flatwash, flatways, flatwise, flawiest, footways, fretsaws, frowsted, outfawns, outflows, software, softwood, swifters, swiftest, swiftlet, twelfths, twofolds, waftages, waftures, wasteful, weftwise, whiffets, wiftiest, witloofs.

 

+5 letters: awfullest, cowlstaff, crowfoots, downshift, flatwares, flatworks, flatworms, fleaworts, flowerets, flowstone, footwalls, footworks, fretworks, frostwork, frowsiest, frowstier, frowsting, frowziest, giftwares, giftwraps, leftwards, outfrowns, snowdrift, softwares, softwoods, swiftlets, swiftness, townsfolk, waitstaff, warcrafts, welfarist, whitefish, wifeliest, wistfully, writeoffs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: STFW


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 54 46 57

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -    ..-.    .--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01010100 01000110 01010111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#84 &#70 &#87

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0054 0046 0057

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53544057

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