AFK

English

Alternative forms

• afk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌeɪ ɛf ˈkeɪ/

Prepositional phrase

AFK

1. (text messaging, computing, military, video games, Internet slang) Initialism of away from keyboard (that is, away from one's computer)
   • 1989 May 8, Vince Perriello (Editor in Chief), “Volume 6, Number 19”, in FidoNews‎^[1], archived from the original on 2005-01-18:

     AFK - Away From Keys

   • 1990 January 17, Russ Armadillo Coffman, “Smilies collection”, in rec.humour, Usenet‎^[2], retrieved 2016-06-26, message-ID <26007@cup.portal.com>:

     AFK = Away From Keyboard

Anagrams

• FKA, f.k.a., f/k/a, fak, fka, kaf