AWFL

English

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  • Homophone: awful

Noun

AWFL (plural AWFLs)

  1. (Internet slang) Initialism of acronym with four letters.
  2. (This is a hot sense, kept provisionally) (Internet slang, derogatory) Acronym of affluent white female liberal/leftist.
    Synonyms: AWFUL, Karen, social justice warrior, wokescold
    • [2024 March 4, “Fox Business: Negative Publicity And Adverse Actions For BlackRock”, in The Greg Gutfeld Show, spoken by Greg Gutfeld and Michael Loftus, via Fox News:
      GUTFELD: That upsets me, Emily, because it's like the there's this— They call them AWFLs, right. Affluent, white, female, liberals, who— Thank you.
      LOFTUS: You use it in a sentence. What is the new word?
      GUTFELD: These are left-wing women who virtue signal on the backs of people who suffer. They don't care that the stores are closing.      ]
    • 2025 March 3, “President Trump Just Signed An Executive Order Making English The Official Language Of The United States”, in The Greg Gutfeld Show, spoken by Greg Gutfeld, via Fox News:
      And I know this is a surprise this was written by a white female, probably a liberal. I'm assuming an AWFL, affluent, white female liberal.
    • 2025 August 28, Teri Christoph, “AWFL Who Doxxed JD Vance Is Now Targeting Pam Bondi”, in RedState‎[1]:
      She knew she was endangering the entire Vance family and posted the photo anyway, likely hoping her fellow AWFLs and their whipped, weak-minded husbands/boyfriends would descend on the home with frothing mouths. […] Well, now this unhinged creature seems to be setting her sights on Attorney General Pam Bondi. In a recent Bluesky post, the AWFL seemed alarmed that there had been sightings of Bondi in the Alexandria area, right outside of D.C.

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