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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ref"
English
Etymology
Clippings
Pronunciation
Noun
ref (plural refs)
- (informal) Clipping of referee.
- Abbreviation of reference.
- Abbreviation of refectory.
- (Philippines, informal) Clipping of refrigerator.
- Please close the ref.
- Please close the refrigerator.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ⇒ Tagalog: i-ref
Verb
ref (third-person singular simple present refs, present participle reffing, simple past and past participle reffed)
- (informal, transitive, intransitive) To referee; to act as a referee in a sport or game.
- 1982, Stephen King, Survivor Type:
- On the block when we were growing up we called him Ronnie the Enforcer because he umped all the stickball games and reffed the hockey.
Anagrams
Icelandic
Noun
ref
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
ref
- Alternative form of reif
Etymology 2
Verb
ref
- Alternative form of reven
Swedish
Noun
ref
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