"LJBF" meaning in All languages combined

See LJBF on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈlɪd͡ʒ.bɪf/ [US] Forms: LJBFs [present, singular, third-person], LJBFing [participle, present], LJBFed [participle, past], LJBFed [past]
Etymology: Initialism of let's just be friends, as opposed to being lovers. Head templates: {{en-verb}} LJBF (third-person singular simple present LJBFs, present participle LJBFing, simple past and past participle LJBFed)
  1. (slang, transitive, derogatory) To ask (somebody) to remain a platonic friend; to turn down the offer of a romantic or sexual relationship. Tags: derogatory, slang, transitive Related terms: friend zone
    Sense id: en-LJBF-en-verb-zbDhzjgm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_text": "Initialism of let's just be friends, as opposed to being lovers.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "LJBFs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "LJBFing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "LJBFed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "LJBFed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "LJBF (third-person singular simple present LJBFs, present participle LJBFing, simple past and past participle LJBFed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I just got LJBFed.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To ask (somebody) to remain a platonic friend; to turn down the offer of a romantic or sexual relationship."
      ],
      "id": "en-LJBF-en-verb-zbDhzjgm",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "platonic",
          "platonic"
        ],
        [
          "friend",
          "friend"
        ],
        [
          "romantic",
          "romantic"
        ],
        [
          "sexual",
          "sexual"
        ],
        [
          "relationship",
          "relationship"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, transitive, derogatory) To ask (somebody) to remain a platonic friend; to turn down the offer of a romantic or sexual relationship."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "friend zone"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlɪd͡ʒ.bɪf/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "LJBF"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Initialism of let's just be friends, as opposed to being lovers.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "LJBFs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "LJBFing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "LJBFed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "LJBFed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "LJBF (third-person singular simple present LJBFs, present participle LJBFing, simple past and past participle LJBFed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "friend zone"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "English words without vowels",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I just got LJBFed.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To ask (somebody) to remain a platonic friend; to turn down the offer of a romantic or sexual relationship."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "platonic",
          "platonic"
        ],
        [
          "friend",
          "friend"
        ],
        [
          "romantic",
          "romantic"
        ],
        [
          "sexual",
          "sexual"
        ],
        [
          "relationship",
          "relationship"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, transitive, derogatory) To ask (somebody) to remain a platonic friend; to turn down the offer of a romantic or sexual relationship."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "slang",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlɪd͡ʒ.bɪf/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "LJBF"
}

Download raw JSONL data for LJBF meaning in All languages combined (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (05fdf6b and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.