# JFK
## Translingual
### Symbol

JFK
* (international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for John F. Kennedy International Airport, which serves New York City, United States.

## English
### Pronunciation

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### Proper noun

JFK
* (US politics) Initialism of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th US president.
* Buildings, facilities, ships, bridges, highways, and other public works informally known as the JFK or JFK, especially
** John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City.
    I flew into JFK, then took a cab to my hotel in Manhattan
*** 1994, Tom Clancy, Armored Cav: A Guided Tour of an Armored Cavalry Regiment, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 281:Fortunately, most of these were former French colonies, and through a combination of quiet diplomacy and well-placed French nationals in the various air-traffic-control centers, the 300-mile-long stream of American aircraft flew the width of Africa as uneventfully as a red-eye flight from LAX to JFK.
** John F. Kennedy Federal Building, Boston, MA.
** John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge, Louisville, KY.
    Traffic on the JFK was delayed by construction of the new bridge.
** Either of two US navy aircraft carriers:
*** USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)
*** USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79)
** Any of numerous schools in the US.
    Steubenville beat JFK, scoring in the final minute of play.

#### Usage notes

* Often used attributively in the informal names of public buildings and other types of facilities and public works named after the president.

### Noun

JFK (plural JFKs)
* A half-dollar coin in honor of president John F. Kennedy.
    Synonym: Kennedy

### Verb

JFK (third-person singular simple present JFKs, present participle JFKing, simple past and past participle JFKed)
* (transitive, slang) To put to death; to assassinate, especially for political reasons.
** 2004 April 5, JonZ, “Poll Picks McCain as Kerry's Vice President”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet):I am not saying choosing McCain would necesarrily lead to Kerry getting JFKed but Democratic presidential runners need to be aware of the problem.
** 2009 November 14, Eddie Haskell, “Obama resists Pentagon pressure on Afghanistan quagmire - will he be JFKed?”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):The way he is decimating the CIA will more likely get him JFKed.
** 2010 June 20, Johnny Asia, “If Obama tried to do the right thing he'd be JFKed”, in alt.politics (Usenet):If Obama tried to do the right thing he'd be JFKed. If Obama tried to live up to his promises, if he opposed the neocons and military-industrial complex ...
* (slang) To conduct research about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
** 1991 April 19, Steve Feinstein, “JFK Survey”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet):This may seem a little presumptious, but I feel that this group is pretty much JFKed out.
** 2009 November 14, cdddraftsman, “More indications of the investigative”, in alt.assassination.jfk (Usenet):I'm going to give 'nobody' the benifit of the doubt , seeing by his own admission that he's been JFKing it for just a couple of months now .
** 2016 August 14, Ralph Cinque, “There are two kinds of people: JFKers and non-JFKers”, in alt.assassination.jfk (Usenet):The point is that the JFK world is a very polarized world, and it does not reflect the general population. In a word, JFKing can screw-up a person's head. Look at the ridiculous assertion of Robert Harris from the other day where he said that he took Ruby's shooting of Oswald as a clear sign that Oswald was guilty.
* (slang, derogatory) To hold similar political beliefs or behave in a similar manner to John F. Kennedy.
** 2003 November 10, zepp, “The Wingnut Dictionary”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):(from the standard code-word remark "I'm a JFK liberal") Examples: "He's useless...he JFKed a long time ago",
** 2004 October 6, Alex, “OT / Right Wingnut Debate Dictionary”, in alt.true-crime (Usenet):JFKing is symbiotically related to the "Even Some Liberals Agree" gambit, since JFKers quickly establish their roles as the reliable house liberals who provide neocons with all their even-some-liberals-agree examples.
** 2010 May 20, Bill Bonde, “evangelical Repulican quits over sex scandal”, in alt.activism.death-penalty (Usenet):He could've JFKed all the overweight babes he wanted to and that's that.