FTP

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛf tiː ˈpiː/

Adjective

FTP (not comparable)

1. (video games) free-to-play

Noun

FTP (plural FTPs)

1. (psychology) Initialism of Future Time Perspective (a scale developed by Carstensen and Frieder Lang)

Proper noun

FTP

1. (Internet) Initialism of File Transfer Protocol (a technology for transferring files over the Internet)

Hyponyms

• sFTP / SFTP

Derived terms

• FTP server
• FTP site

 

References

• FTP on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

FTP (third-person singular simple present FTPs, present participle FTPing, simple past and past participle FTPed)

1. (computing, transitive) To transfer using File Transfer Protocol.
   • 1995, Richard Wagner, Inside CompuServe:

     Just as newsgroups have certain rules to live by, there are several courtesies to remember when FTPing and telneting to remote sites […]

   • 2008, Paul Thewlis, WordPress for Business Bloggers:

     Having saved header.php, I FTPed it back to the Sandbox theme folder, overwriting the old version.

Interjection

FTP

2. (US) Initialism of fuck the police.
   • [2018, David Correia, Tyler Wall, Police: A Field Guide‎^[1], page 263:

     "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.]

   • 2020 June 2, “YG Has a Clear Message in New Protest Song 'FTP'”, in Billboard:

     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)."

Anagrams

• FPT, PFT, TFP, TPF