FTP

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɛf tiː ˈpiː/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Adjective

FTP (not comparable)

  1. (video games) free-to-play

Noun

FTP (plural FTPs)

  1. (psychology) Initialism of Future Time Perspective (a scale developed by Carstensen and Frieder Lang).

Proper noun

FTP

  1. (Internet) Initialism of File Transfer Protocol (a technology for transferring files over the Internet).

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Derived terms

Verb

FTP (third-person singular simple present FTPs, present participle FTPing, simple past and past participle FTPed)

  1. (computing, transitive) To transfer using File Transfer Protocol.
    • 1995, Richard Wagner, Inside CompuServe:
      Just as newsgroups have certain rules to live by, there are several courtesies to remember when FTPing and telneting to remote sites
    • 2008, Paul Thewlis, WordPress for Business Bloggers:
      Having saved header.php, I FTPed it back to the Sandbox theme folder, overwriting the old version.

Interjection

FTP

  2. (US) Initialism of fuck the police.
    • , page 263:
      "Fuck the police" emerged as the unofficial motto of the 1992 riots in Los Angeles Following the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, street signs and businesses were frequently tagged with FTP.]
    • 2020 June 2, “YG Has a Clear Message in New Protest Song 'FTP'”, in Billboard:
      As nationwide protests continue to grow, demanding justice for George Floyd and the black community as a whole, YG has shared a new protest song titled "FTP (F--- the Police)."

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Indonesian

Noun

FTP

  1. (education) initialism of fakultas teknologi pertanian

Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English FTP.

Noun

FTP c

  1. (Internet) An FTP, a File Transfer Protocol.
    • 2024 May 19, Anders Lundberg, “Internets första sökmotor återuppstår ”, in Sweclockers:
      Enligt Techspot utgjorde Archie halva Kanadas internettrafik under en period i början av 1990-talet, men i takt med att webbens popularitet ökade minskade användningen av FTP och den sista versionen av Archie, 3.5, släpptes 1996.
      According to Techspot, Archie accounted for half of Canada's internet traffic during a period in the early 1990s. However, as the web's popularity increased, the use of FTP declined, and the last version of Archie, 3.5, was released in 1996.
    • 2024 August 3 (last accessed), “FTP för öppna data ”, in Lantmäteriet:
      Ett annat alternativ för att ladda ner data från FTP:n är att kopiera länkadressen och sedan klistra in den i Utforskaren.
      Another option for downloading data from the FTP is to copy the link address and then paste it into the File Explorer.

Declension

Declension of FTP
nominative genitive
singular indefinite FTP FTP:s
definite FTP:n
FTP:en 		FTP:ns
FTP:ens
plural indefinite FTP:er FTP:ers
definite FTP:erna FTP:ernas

Derived terms

Interjection

FTP

  1. FTP (Initialism of fuck the police)
    • 2018 September 15, Malin Wigen, “Fick nummerplåt godkänd – nu vill polisen avlägsna den ”, in Aftonbladet:
      En man i Norge fick en registreringsskylt med bokstavskombinationen FTP godkänd. Nu vill polisen att man ser över beslutet – på grund av förkortningens innebörd, skriver norska TV2. ”FTP är en välkänd jargong i kriminella miljöer som är en förkortning för ”Fuck The Police”.
      A man in Norway got a license plate with the letter combination FTP approved. Now, the police want to review the decision due to the abbreviation's meaning, writes Norway's TV2. "FTP is a well-known slang in criminal circles that stands for "Fuck The Police."
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