AFK

See also: afk

English

Alternative forms

• afk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌeɪ ɛf ˈkeɪ/

Prepositional phrase

AFK

1. (military, video games, Internet slang) Initialism of away from keyboard, i.e. away from one's computer; idle.

   I'm gonna go AFK in a few mins

   • 2015 June 24, Sam Esmail, “eps1.0_hellofriend.mov”, in Mr. Robot, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Elliot Alderson:

     See, I usually do this kind of thing from my computer, but this time I wanted to do it AFK.

Anagrams

• FKA, f.k.a., fka, kaf, f/k/a, FAK, fak

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɛf.ka/, [aˈɛf.ka]

Noun

AFK (plural AFK-AFK)

1. (physiology) initialism of ahli fisiologi kedokteran (“medical physiology expert”).

Verb

AFK

1. initialism of abai fungsi kibor (“away from keyboard”, literally “ignore keyboard function”) (a phono-semantic matching)

Further reading

• “AFK”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016