OOMF
English
Alternative forms
- oomf
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /umf/
Phrase
OOMF
- (Internet slang) Initialism of one of my followers or one of my friends.
- 2022 September 16, Emil Wilbekin, “What Does It Mean to Be a Young, Black Queer Artist Right Now?”, in The New York Times Style Magazine:
- [Jeremy O. Harris] One of the things I worry about is that the little gay boys and girls I’m friends with don’t meet people their age IRL. They only know people through their oomfs, right? The oomfs run the world.
[Devan Shimoyama:] What’s “oomf”?
[Jeremy O. Harris:] An oomf is an “O.O.M.F.” — “one of my friends,” as in someone you know only in a digital space, from Twitter or Tumblr.
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Derived terms
- OOMFie, oomfie