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F/U

F/U is the initialism of follow-up.

Meaning of follow-up

Noun

follow-up (plural follow-ups)

  1. A subsidiary action taken in response to an event.
    • A follow-up order placed in 2019 will feature the technology being built into new trams which are due to arrive next year.2020 January 2, Richard Clinnick, “Midlands Metro welcomes new catenary-free trams”, in Rail, page 16
  2. (Internet) A posted message on a newsgroup, etc. in reply to a previous one.
  3. A shot on goal directly following another that has been saved.
    • It could have been much worse for City before the break, but goalkeeper Joe Hart saved Jamie Mackie's long-range shot and Helguson's headed follow-up - although the latter was offside - before Bothroyd hit the post with another header.2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport
  4. The revisiting of a patient in ambulatory care.

Questions about F/U

What is F/U the initialism of?
F/U is the initialism of follow-up.

Words near F/U in the dictionary

  1. F/O
  2. F/Os
  3. f/stop
  4. f/stops
  5. f/t
  6. F/U
  7. F/V
  8. F/X
  9. F1
  10. F1 hybrid
  11. F1 hybrids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: F/U (page history and authors); follow-up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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