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Meaning of WTF | Babel Free

Noun CEFR A2

Definitions

  1. Initialism of World Taekwondo Federation.
    abbreviation, alt-of, dated, initialism
  2. Initialism of White's tree frog.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  3. A bafflingly bad or unwise design decision.
    slang

Equivalents

Examples

“Likewise the WTF says they are the official Tae Kwon Do organization because […]”
“The International Olympic Committee (IOC) recognizes WTF at its 83rd […]”
“The Secretariat of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) is located in Seoul, South Korea, in a beautiful edifice […]”
“The WTF secretary general, Hoss Rafaty, told insidethegames that the governing body would look to market itself as World Taekwondo for business and commercial purposes, although there are no current plans to officially change the organisation’s name.”
“I think coercing numbers to booleans is a WTF - 0 should not be evaluatable as a boolean, it should be a type mismatch.”
“React attempts to wrap the browser DOM API and it's conventions in a way that's (for people who use it) easier to reason about, that's kind of like saying Anvil is a WTF because it wraps Vulcan”

CEFR level

A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.

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