referee, ref
(noun) (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Ref (plural Refs)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Ref is the 32599th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 705 individuals. Ref is most common among White (60.99%), Black/African American (22.84%), and Hispanic/Latino (11.21%) individuals.
• FER, RFE, erf, f***er, fer
ref (plural refs)
(informal) A referee.
(Philippines, informal) A refrigerator.
Abbreviation of reference.
Abbreviation of refectory.
ref (third-person singular simple present refs, present participle reffing, simple past and past participle reffed)
(informal) To referee; to act as a referee in a sport or game.
• FER, RFE, erf, f***er, fer
REF
(UK, education) Initialism of Research Excellence Framework: a system for assessing the quality of research in higher-education institutions.
• FER, RFE, erf, f***er, fer
Source: Wiktionary
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
