"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. [2018, David Correia, Tyler Wall, Police: A Field Guide, page 263:
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)." 2020 June 2, “YG Has a Clear Message in New Protest Song 'FTP'”, in Billboard:
Chinese officials gush about their decision to turn the tropical island of Hainan into the world’s largest free-trade port (FTP). They describe the move, which took effect in December, as a “substantial leap” in the country’s opening to foreigners seeking to tap China’s vast markets. […] When China’s leader, Xi Jinping, first announced the free-trade plan for Hainan in 2018, some observers wondered whether he intended to build a new Hong Kong—a free-trade hub that plays a vital role for foreigners as a gateway to China’s markets and as a China-linked financial centre. For now, Hainan’s ambitions are more modest, even though the area covered by the FTP is huge: the island is nearly the size of Taiwan and 30 times bigger than Hong Kong. But it is taking a leap. The new FTP means that 74% of goods can now enter the island without tariffs. They can be shipped to the mainland on the same zero-levy terms as long as they undergo processing in Hainan that adds at least 30% to their value. To lure investors and talent, taxes on firms in strategic sectors and on high earners will be capped at 15%. That compares with 35% and 45%, respectively, on the mainland. 2026 February 1, “China has launched a huge free-trade experiment. Will reforms on a big southern island kick-start changes elsewhere?”, in The Economist:
(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Future Time Perspective (a scale developed by Carstensen and Frieder Lang).
(transitive) To transfer using File Transfer Protocol.
Having saved header.php, I FTPed it back to the Sandbox theme folder, overwriting the old version. 2008, Paul Thewlis, WordPress for Business Bloggers:
Just as newsgroups have certain rules to live by, there are several courtesies to remember when FTPing and telneting to remote sites […] 1995, Richard Wagner, Inside CompuServe:
We FTP the whole dataset to the customer after we've scanned it to ensure that no restricted data is left inside it.