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FL en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of foreign language.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of flight level.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, historical, slang) Abbreviation of French letter.
    • ‘Well, what did he recommend? Those effells are a pain in the neck, only for bachelors.’ 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 41:
    • You could buy FLs quietly in chemists' shops and often in barber shops. 2012, Ian McCall, Going Going Gone, page 94:
    • Used and discarded Fls–French letters–floated in the slime, little opaque vessels carrying human seed into oblivion. 2005, Shilpa Agarwal, Haunting Bombay:
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, slang) Abbreviation of female lead.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
Fl alternative lexicographic
FLs Number=Plur lexicographic
effell alternative lexicographic

Coordinates

ML

Synonyms

FML

Source: en.wiktionary, “FL” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

FL en · PROPN

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of Florida: a state of the United States.
    alt of Florida
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of Flevoland: a province of the Netherlands.
    alt of Flevoland

Forms

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Fl alternative lexicographic
effell alternative lexicographic