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RTFA

RTFA is the initialism of read the fucking article.

RTFA is the initialism of ready team fire assist.

Origin of RTFA

Derived from the initialism RTFM, which was originally used in the context of Usenet.

Words formed from RTFA

Questions about RTFA

What is RTFA the initialism of?
RTFA is the initialism of read the fucking article.

Words near RTFA in the dictionary

  1. RTE
  2. Rte.
  3. RTECS
  4. RTed
  5. RTF
  6. RTFA
  7. RTFFAQ
  8. RTFM
  9. rtfn
  10. RTG
  11. rtg.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: RTFA (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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