GFE

English

Etymology

(Google): Introduced by sex columnist Dan Savage.

Pronunciation

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Noun

GFE (countable and uncountable, plural GFEs)

1. Initialism of girlfriend experience.

   Coordinate terms: BFE, PSE

   • 2001, (unknown), “ASP: "Julie" of Oral-Land-Oh”, in alt.sex.prostitution (Usenet):

     She is absolutely a total GFE, no limits, except no Greek.

   • 2011, R. Barri Flowers, Prostitution in the Digital Age: Selling Sex from the Suite to the Street, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 151:

     For many johns, the most popular feature of being with a prostitute is the so-called Girlfriend Experience, or GFE, where a client pays a prostitute to pretend to be his girlfriend during the session, making it seem more real than simply a business arrangement.

   • 2016, Megan Rivers-Moore, Gringo Gulch: Sex, Tourism, and Social Mobility in Costa Rica, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 58:

     Thus, while these sex tourists are looking for the GFE, they are crucially not looking for a girlfriend.

2. (real estate) Initialism of good-faith estimate.

   As usual, that broker's GFE was off by more than 30% from the final cost.

3. (US, military) Initialism of government-furnished equipment: equipment in the possession of or acquired directly by the government, and subsequently delivered to or otherwise made available to the contractor.

   Hyponym: GFP

4. Initialism of global financial elite.

Phrase

GFE

1. (Internet slang, vulgar) Initialism of Google fucking exists

   GFE, idiot: look it up yourself and stop bothering me.

Anagrams

• GEF