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TBF

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FORCE: Attention EconomyUNIVERSE: Internet SlangCLUSTER: chat_abbreviations

a conversational initialism that signals a fairness-minded concession before or after a point. The same letters also stand for the Turkish Basketball Federation.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

""TBF, the sequel was shot on half the budget.""

LORE & ORIGIN

Wiktionary lists it as English internet slang and text-messaging initialism, and separately lists the basketball-federation sense. It gives no etymology or date.

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