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F-Word

The "f-word" is a euphemism for a vulgarity, usually, "f**k."

How It's Used

“…the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words, the F-dash-dash-dash word…”

“The show is peppered with salty language, though plenty of kids attended the performance I saw. My guess is that the creative team felt profligate use of the F-word was necessary—like the sauce bottle on the Elliots' kitchen table—to establish that the family is working class (which shows what a bunch of middle-class posers they are).”

"And then, of course, there are agents, those serpents in the literary garden (Le Carre has dumped that partner as well). It was the so-called 'jackal', Andrew Wylie, who enticed Amis away from his long-standing literary agent, Pat Kavanagh. It resulted in a broken friendship with Kavanagh's husband, Julian Barnes, and a letter which, as Amis recalls, had a lot of fs in it. As in f-words."

"The appeals court opinion, if upheld, could stymie the FCC in its ability to put the genie back in the bottle when it comes to the f-word and such; the court all but begged the watchdog to clarify and simplify its rules on such issues."

Also Known As (AKA)

F-Bomb

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