DNF
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English
Verb
DNF
- (sports) Initialism of did not finish.
- (geocaching) Initialism of did not find.
- (Internet slang, social media) Initialism of do not follow.
Verb
DNF (third-person singular simple present DNFs, present participle DNFing, simple past and past participle DNFed or DNF'ed)
- To fail to finish, as a sporting event or a piece of media.
- While I used to love them, now I keep DNFing superhero movies.
- 2014, Phil Gaimon, Pro Cycling on $10 a Day: From Fat Kid to Euro Pro, VeloPress, →ISBN:
- He'd DNFed and could have gone home an hour earlier, but he wanted to see me win.
- 2021 August 10, Danika Ellis, “I'm Breaking Up With 3-Star Reads”, in Book Riot, archived from the original on August 16, 2021:
- 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.
See also
Noun
DNF (plural DNFs)
- (mathematics) Initialism of disjunctive normal form.
Proper noun
DNF
- (British, cartography) Initialism of Digital National Framework.