Meaning of fas | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of Financial Assistance Scheme.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2. Initialism of fetal alcohol syndrome.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
3. A language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
4. A border or fringe.
   Scotland, obsolete
5. Initialism of Federation of American Scientists.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
6. A thing represented as being worthless.
   Scotland, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Not worth a fas”

“In fact, 18 students in my class are under the FAS, compared to an average of four students in each of the other Primary Six classes.”

“FAS estimates Russia has 1,816 tactical, or non-strategic, weapons (shorter range and intended for use in battle rather than for the destruction of whole cities).”

“She said people with FAS are on a spectrum, have a wide range of intelligences, that the intelligence test is biased, and that I got strong intuition and street smarts, that I’m smart where it counts, which I already knew, but when she told me it felt good, like I didn’t really know it until she said it like that.”

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