RAF

name

Etymology

Clipping of Rafael.

Definitions

  1. Initialism of Royal Air Force, the British RAF.

  2. Initialism of Russian Armed Forces (To avoid confusing with the preceding sense, the…

    Initialism of Russian Armed Forces (To avoid confusing with the preceding sense, the Russian Armed Forces are more often abbreviated in other ways, like RuAF.)

    • This paper discusses ongoing military reforms in the Russian Armed Forces (RAF) and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and tries to determine[…]
    • Russia's military intervention in the former Soviet states of Ukraine and Crimea and the Russian Armed Forces (RAF) display of military might[…]
    • While the military was pulled into power conflicts between Gorbachev and his opponents inside the communist nomenclature in 1991, and between Yeltsin and the Duma in 1993, the Russian Armed Forces (RAF) did not develop an organizational[…]
  3. The German Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction).

  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. Abbreviation of Russian Automobile Federation.

    2. A diminutive of the male given name Rafael.

      • The Nets players sometimes jokingly call Derrick Coleman, of all things, Joe Jackson. Joe Jackson? Coleman says it comes courtesy of forward Rafael Addison. […] "It's just something Raf started," Coleman said of the nickname.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA