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ftw

ftw is the initialism of for the win.

ftw is the alternative form of FTW.

Meaning of for the win

Prepositional phrase

  1. (Internet, dated) Being the best; being great, awesome, amazing or spectacular; sure to succeed (used as a term of approval, similar to long live)
    • Blink-182 for the win!

Prepositional phrase capitalized: FTW

  1. (Internet, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of for the win.
    • Right, and the fact that I ran winXP every day eight hours a day for three years running without the system locking up once means nothing. That said, Linux FTW!2007 February 2, “Windows Explorer = dead.”, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (Usenet), message-ID <1170459548.028084.274220@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com>

Noun capitalized: FTW

FTW (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of fitness to work.

Interjection capitalized: FTW

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, slang, vulgar) Initialism of fuck the world: an antisocial slogan.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism, slang) Initialism of forever two wheels: a biker slogan.
    • "Most people," John said, "think it means 'Fuck the world.' But to a real biker, it means 'Forever two wheels'."[2003, Karol Griffin, Skin deep

Phrase capitalized: FTW

FTW

  1. (Internet, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of for those wondering.

Questions about ftw

What is ftw the initialism of?
Ftw is the initialism of for the win.
What part of speech is ftw?
Ftw can be a prepositional phrase, a noun, an interjection or a phrase.

Words near ftw in the dictionary

  1. FTTS
  2. FTTT
  3. FTTX
  4. FTV
  5. FTVs
  6. ftw
  7. FTX
  8. FTXs
  9. Fty.
  10. FTZ
  11. ft³

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ftw (page history and authors); FTW (page history and authors); for the win (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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