DNF

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Verb

DNF

1. (sports) Initialism of did not finish.

   Coordinate terms: DNS, DNQ

2. (geocaching) Initialism of did not find.
3. (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)

1. 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 16 August 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

• DSQ
• DQ
• Q

Noun

DNF (plural DNFs)

1. (mathematics) Initialism of disjunctive normal form.

Proper noun

DNF

1. (British, cartography) Initialism of Digital National Framework.

Anagrams

• NDF, NFD, nfd