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📻 Low frequency 🔍 Looking for
LF

LF

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A short chat message that says someone is looking for a player or group
  • noun
  • Jargon
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  • LF unit

Examples

  • LF Tank and 2 CC for Shattered Halls, Paladin tank preferred or whatever the flavor of the month is.

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  • In the gaming forum, many players submitted their wishes and requirements; they all wrote 'LF' to indicate they were looking for partners.

  • She posted a message that said 'LF experienced players for a raid' in the online gaming chat.

  • He checked the list of requests on the website and noticed several users were marked with 'LF' beside their names.

Surface Forms

LF singular
LFs plural

Morphology

LF = looking (opaque) = L + F

The initialism corresponds directly to the initial letters of the phrase 'looking for', so the formation from the phrase to 'LF' is straightforward. [Postprocessing: moved 'for' from base_words to prefix] [Postprocessing: changed transparency from 'transparent' to 'semi-transparent' for abbreviation]

Etymology

LF comes from the words looking and for, so it is a short way to say you are 'looking for' a player, item, or group in chat. That's why you see LF followed by a role or item when someone wants help or a team.