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UFO

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˌjuːɛfˈəʊ//
  • United Kingdom//ˈjuːfəʊ̯//
  • United States//ˌjuˌɛfˈoʊ//
  • United States//ˈjufoʊ̯//
  • United States//ˈʌfoʊ̯//

An "unfinished object" in knitting or other kinds of craft.

noun

  1. 1

    An "unfinished object" in knitting or other kinds of craft.

    UFOs differ from WIPs in that a WIP is a project one is actively pursuing, while a UFO runs the risk of never getting finished.

  2. 2

    Variant of unidentified flying objectInitialism of unidentified flying object; (loosely) an alien spacecraft.

    By that time not only the Australian press and public but also the Federal Government was agog with speculation as fresh UFO reports flowed in.

    After the case had been reported in the newspapers, Mrs. Gracindo de Souza, wife of a member of the local stock exchange, told police that she and her daughter had been driving down Alameda Sao Boaventura when they had seen an^([sic]) UFO hovering over the clearing where the bodies were later discovered.

    To my way of thinking, there is every bit as much evidence for the existence of UFOs as there is for the existence of God. Probably far more. At least in the case of UFOs there have been countless taped and filmed—and, by the way, unexplained—sightings from all over the world, along with documented radar evidence seen by experienced military and civilian radar operators.

  3. 3

    Variant of ultrared flattened objectInitialism of ultrared flattened object.

Etymology

Initialisms.

Forms

plural
UFOs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).