FAFO
/ˈfeɪfoʊ/
FAFO is the acronym of fuck around and find out.
Meaning of fuck around and find out
Verb
fuck around and find out (third-person singular simple present fucks around and finds out, present participle fucking around and finding out, simple past and past participle fucked around and found out)
- To experience the negative consequences of engaging in a risky course of action.
- “A'ight, you keep on waiting. She gon' fuck around and find out on her own”.2014, Keisha Ervin, Reckless 2: Nobody's Girl, page 22
- Synonyms:
- FAFO
- To engage in trial and error or experimentation, especially when it involves serious risk.
- What makes fucking around and finding out into science is that you write down your findings.
Verb capitalized: Fafo
Fafo (third-person singular simple present Fafos, present participle Fafoing, simple past and past participle Fafoed)
- Alternative letter-case form of FAFO.
- The potential trade war could be the most far-reaching exercise in Fafo of Trump’s second term.2025 January 27, David Charter, “Fafo diplomacy: How Colombia found out Trump meant business”, in The Times, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2025
- Gonzalez, 41, is from Los Angeles, raised by Mexican parents “in a Fafo style, now I think of it”. […] Typical Fafo examples that have emerged online include forgoing the battle to get a child to wear their coat and letting them get cold instead, or letting them go to bed hungry if they refuse to...2026 January 29, Emine Saner, “The rise of Fafo parenting: is this the end of gentle child rearing?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Forms of FAFO
| third-person singular present | FAFOs |
|---|---|
| present participle | FAFOing |
| past participle | FAFOed |
| past | FAFOed |
| alternative form | Fafo |
| third-person singular present | Fafos |
| present participle | Fafoing |
| past participle | Fafoed |
| past | Fafoed |
Words formed from FAFO
Questions about FAFO
- What is FAFO the acronym of?
- FAFO is the acronym of fuck around and find out.
- What part of speech is FAFO?
- FAFO is a verb.
- How do you pronounce FAFO?
- FAFO is pronounced /ˈfeɪfoʊ/.
- What is the past tense of FAFO?
- The past tense of FAFO is FAFOed.
Words near FAFO in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: FAFO (page history and authors); Fafo (page history and authors); fuck around and find out (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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