Korean slang profile
엘에프
elepeu
A race’s final-200-meter time
An English abbreviation for a horse race’s time over the last 200 meters before the finish.
- Expanded form
- last furlonglast furlong
- Other spellings
- LF
- Earliest source found
- 2004
- Documented trend period
- Not verified
This is the earliest source we have verified, not the date the term was coined.
01Examples, with English translations
- Example by Julimmal
경주 분석표에서 각 말의 엘에프 기록을 비교했다.
I compared the horses’ 엘에프 times on the race-analysis chart.
02Documented history
- 2004The National Institute of Korean Language’s 2004 new-word collection lists the headword “엘에프” and its definition.[1]
03Origin & word formation
The collection gives LF’s expanded initials and defines it as the time for the last 200 meters. Who first used it and when have not been verified.
Evidence for the origin explanationHigh
The headword, definition, and source-language spelling in the 2004 collection were compared. The original older articles re-quoted there were not directly opened, so their dates were not used for firstSeen. The first coinage and spread remain unverified.
04Sources
Original titles and links are preserved. An English translation does not replace the original source.
- 2004년 신어 (국립국어원)Published 2004Original source checked Nov 14, 2026