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  CFM adjective [come fuck me]

  (of an article of clothing, especially shoes) intended to invite sexual advances. Also as noun, a sexually provocative item of clothing. Compare FUCK-ME, adjective.

  [1972 B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 53: Come fuck-me’s…overly tight pants.] 1990 P. Munro Slang U 56: All her other clothes were preppy, but she had a C.F.M. skirt on. 1998 Personal letter to editor (Aug. 26): Out west, sexy boots worn by ladies are known as CFMs. 1998 Revised: Svengali, on Usenet newsgroup alt.tv.x-files.creative: Her legs …were nicely highlighted by the type of shoes Scully had once jokingly referred to as CFM shoes. 2001 B. Thacker Rule No. 5—No Sex on the Bus 176: They would spend six months standing in bars with their CFM shirt on. 2002 Spectator (May 25) 18: The bride had forsaken her patent-leather, white-and-lilac “cfm” shoes with the six-inch heels in favour of Nike “air-heels” in which she danced enthusiastically. 2005 J. Coburn Reinventing Mona 113: The group burst into wild applause when Violet stumbled on her five-inch CFM heels and momentarily lost her balance.

  charity fuck noun

  = MERCY FUCK.

  1978 J. D. Macdonald Empty Copper Sea 47: He described the awkward union which he terms “the charity fuck.” 1986 P. Anderson Lords of the Earth 369: I don’t want your charity…That’s what it’s called, you know. A charity fuck. 1993 J. Varley Steel Beach 344: If there’s a worse kind of sex than the charity fuck, I haven’t heard about it. 2001 A. Wall School of Night 268: I sort of stumbled into her. I reckon it must have been a charity fuck, to be honest. 2005 M. Musto in Village Voice (Jan. 11) (Nexis): Worst Partygoer: A nebbish who cranes his head to find someone better, when you were only talking to him as a charity fuck anyway.

  chicken-fucker noun

  a depraved or disgusting fellow.—usually used with baldheaded. Also: a man who prefers to copulate with boys. [The 1984 quotation is euphemistic.]

  1953 in G. Legman Rationale of Dirty Joke 20: Suddenly two bald-headed men enter, and the parrot says, “You two chicken-fuckers come out in the hen-house with me.” 1970 M. Mirsky Proceedings of the Rabble 159: “Chicken fuckers!” shouted the Maine men. Taking up their own guns, they began picking off Mississippi dogs. 1976–79 H. G. Duncan & W. T. Moore Green Side Out 276 [refers to ca1960]: All right ya bald-headed chicken fuckers, I want this area policed the fuck up. 1967–80 J. McAleer & B. Dickson Unit Pride 387 [refers to Korean War]: Heave in the first shovelful…and run like a baldheaded chicken-fucker. 1984 S. Terkel “Good War” 397 [refers to WWII]: “I’m gonna have you shot.”…“You baldheaded so-and-so, go ahead and shoot.” 2002 R. B. Parker Widow’s Walk xxxii. 163: “Nathan Smith was a serious chickenfucker.”…“He was drawn to young boys?” “Early adolescent when he could get them.”

  clusterfuck noun

  1. an orgy.

  1965 East Village Other (Oct.) 2/3: As soon as they legalize “pornies” I’ll be the first producer to hit the neighborhood theatres with my now in progress epic film entitled “Mongolian Cluster Fuck!” 1967–68 N. von Hoffman We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against 182: Oh, those big cluster fucks! I can’t stand them. 1968 “A. D’Arcangelo” Homosexual Handbook 115: You may see many of the people at your “do” only at other “cluster fucks,” having nothing in common with them but a taste for orgies. 1969 G. D. Bartell Group Sex 134: One advantage of open versus closed swinging, according to most of our informants, is the possiblity of “three-on-one” or “gang bang” (sometimes called “clusterfuck”) activity. 1972 R.A. Wilson Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words 69: Cluster Fuck—Two men copulating simultaneously with the same woman. 1975 G. Legman No Laughing Matter 754: The cheap hippie “group-grope” and “cluster-fuck.” 1977 National Lampoon (Aug.) 50: Well, they’re usually pretty wrapped up in a cluster-fuck with the photo models. 1986 J. Ellroy Suicide Hill 699: I’m startin’ to feel like the bottom man in a Mongolian cluster fuck. 2001 J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand xxi. 115: Pete saw cartoons and FBI text. Hate and smut—a coon named Bayard Rustin—a queer cluster-fuck.

  2. Military. a bungled or confused undertaking or situation; mess; (also) a disorganized group of individuals.

  1969 in B. E. Holley Vietnam (1993) 143: These are the screwups that the American public rarely hears about. They happen often enough over here that we have a term for them—“cluster-fuck”! 1974 New York City man, age 27: A clusterfuck was a big expression in [the N.Y. National Guard] in 1969. It meant any time people were standing around outside of a regular formation. They’d say, “What the hell is this clusterfuck?” “Break up this clusterfuck.” 1982 J. M. Del Vecchio 13th Valley 42: This place looks like a giant clusterfuck. Ibid. 137: We gonna get this clusterfuck up in the air? 1983 K. Miller Lurp Dog 222 [refers to Vietnam War]: Shame to piss up a clusterfuck target like this. 1985 D. Dye Run Between the Raindrops 42: The rest is up for grabs. This place is a cluster-fuck. 1986 J. Thacker Finally the Pawn 135 [refers to 1970]: What you’re going to have is an A number one clusterfuck. 1986 J. C. Stinson & J. Carabatsos Heartbreak Ridge 146: “What’s your assessment of this alert?”…“It’s a clusterfuck!…marines should be fighting, not…filling out request forms for equipment they should already have, Sir.” 1988 P. J. O’Rourke Holidays in Hell 218: “Mongolian Cluster Fuck” is the technical term journalists use for a preplanned, wholly scripted, news-free event. 1991 D. Simon Homicide 82: Allowing a herd of new recruits to graze through a crime scene had all the makings of what detectives and military men like to call a clusterfuck. 1999 C. Brookmyre One Fine Day in Middle of Night 136: This whole op is from page one of the cluster-fuck recipe book. 2006 New York Magazine (Apr. 17) 36/1: Says one bitter paparazzo: “The whole thing was a giant cluster-fuck, a total waste of time.”

  3. Originally Military. a bungler; idiot.

  a1987 C. Bunch & A. Cole Reckoning for Kings 284 [refers to Vietnam War]: He’s a clusterfuck. 2006 A. Davies Goodbye Lemon ii. 115: That clusterfuck Musser gets sixty grand a year up and down a goddamn telephone pole. He didn’t get that job because he’s a supergenius either.

  cluster-fuck verb

  1. to participate in an orgy; (also) to gang-bang.

  1971 J. F. Hunter Gay Insider vii. 134: In the bird sanctuary…you can cluster-fuck with relative impunity. 2002 J. Ashbless Divine Torment (2007) 131: I’ve tried to tone it down, to make do with the lighter stuff. But it doesn’t give me a rush the way being cluster-fucked in a latrine does. 2003 C. McCann Dancer 243: Fucking in the rest rooms and fucking in the baths, fist-fucking, toe-fucking, finger-fucking, cluster-fucking, not to mention rimming, a regular fuckfest.

  2.a. Originally Military. to congregate or behave in a disorganized manner.

  1983 W. D. Ehrhart Vietnam to Perkasie 162 [refers to 1967]: All those amtracs clusterfuckin’ around the CP yesterday—Charlie knew somethin’ was up. 1999 M. Foley Have a Nice Day xxii. 277: It was the worst Pay-Per-View match that I have ever been in, and the fans knew it.… I got that same feeling in Orlando that night as we cluster fucked to a symphony of silence, but I waited on the ring apron until the feeling went away.

  b. to victimize; to doom; (also) to make confused or disorganized.

  1996 R. Marcinko & J. Weisman Green Team 310: The schedule I’d carefully calculated was now OBE—in other words, Overtaken By Events—and we were clusterfucked. 2000 K. W. Nolan Ripcord 429: Everybody just went in their own direction.… We became totally clusterfucked. 2001 J. L. Burke Bitterroot 141: The shorter version is I got cluster-fucked eight ways from breakfast and that broad is living on a horse ranch bought with my money. 2001 O. West Sharkman Six 47: Sir, this is going to get clusterfucked, we don’t play it right. If the press gets hold of this, we’re dead. 2007 J. L. Burke Tin Roof Blowdown v. 30: This lamebrain not only out-smarted you, he cluster-fucked you six ways from breakfast. 2007 P. F. Hamilton Dreaming Void 180: Is it a bunch of crap, or are we all going to get cluster-fucked by the Void?

  cunt-fuck noun

  a sexual act involving the vagina, esp. an act of heterosexual vagin
al intercourse.

  1879 Harlequin Prince Cherrytop 4: Cunt fuck, front tuck, he shall never once begin it. 1967 N. Mailer Why Are We in Vietnam? 155: Walk in on them in an unlocked bathroom and you can have a two minute red-hot steaming ass blubber wet slap-dizzy oceanic cunt fuck. 1998 Nubile Treat, on Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.stories (Oct. 1): It was a first-class cuntfuck, and they dug it as much as the ass-fuck they’d seen before. 2002 B. McAvera Yo! Picasso! 55: Oh I know he’s not great in the cunt-fuck department…never was…but it doesn’t really matter.

  cunt-fuck verb

  to engage in any form of sexual activity involving the vagina, esp. to engage in heterosexual vaginal intercourse (with).

  ca1890 My Secret Life IX. vi.: It was at a time of my life when straight forward cunt fucking was all I cared about. 1908 Way of a Man with a Maid 151: Alice and Connie flew into each others’ arms—too excited to rush to the couch, they fell on the soft thick carpet and madly cunt-fucked each other till their feelings were relieved. 1966 A. Wainhouse & R. Seaver trans. Marquis de Sade 120 Days of Sodom 634: The Duc cunt-fucks one servant and Rosette at the orgies and ass-fucks the same servant, ass-fucks Rosette too. 1990 Footlicker 80: I can’t cuntfuck with men. Won’t ever again. 1994 N. Baker Fermata 135: Smiling again at the traffic because they couldn’t know the supreme full-pelvic cuntfucking she was giving herself. 2003 R. Gordon Undying Lust 106: “A right little slut,” Rod rejoined, his swinging balls meeting Mick’s as he cunt-fucked Wendy.

  D

  deck noun

  In phrase:

  fuck the deck, U.S. Marine Corps. to perform push-ups on command.

  1983 W. D. Ehrhart Vietnam to Perkasie 32 [refers to 1966]: Fuck the deck, piggy!…Push-ups!

  DILLIGAF interjection

  “do I look like I give a fuck?”

  1973 S. A. Rowan They Wouldn’t Let Us Die (ed. 2) 27: We had a guy named Dilligaf—DILLIGAF—Do I Look Like I Give A Fuck? And that was his attitude; so Dilligaf was his name. The favorite [North Vietnamese] guard of all. 1996 D. Underhill & H. Curtis Miramichi Dictionary: Diligaf. Famous bar in the village of Blackville, about twenty miles south of Miramichi City. Translated, Dilligaf means: Does It Look Like I Give a F---. 2007 S. Hyde Darkside Zodiac at Work 157: A T-shirt with the…logo, DILLIGAF (Do I look like I Give a F@?%?).

  dog noun

  In phrase:

  fuck [or occasionally screw or finger] the dog

  1. to loaf on the job, especially while pretending to be hard at work; fool around; idle; waste time. [The 1918 and 1919 quotations presumably euphemize this expression.]

  [1918 in M. Sullivan Our Times V 328: F.T.D.: Feeding the dog. The supposed occupation of a soldier who is killing time.] [1919 H.S. Warren 9th Co. 35: The Engineer’s Dictionary…Walking the dog—Soldiering on the job. When one is caught at it he is said to have stepped on the puppy’s tail.] 1935 J. Conroy World to Win 201: One of the first things you gotta learn when you’re f—n’ the dog…is t’ look like you’re workin’ hard enough t’ make yer butt blossom like a rose. Rattle templets, beat with a hammer on a beam, but do somethin’. If the boss ketches you f—n’ the dog while you’re helpin’ me, he’ll eat me up blood raw. 1939 A. C. Bessie Men in Battle 331: They were “fucking the dog,” spending what money they had. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark American Thesaurus of Slang 490: Fuck the dog, to loaf on the job. 1948 W. Guthrie Born to Win 19: I’ll do all I can to stay alive and argufying, alive and kicking, alive and flurking the dog. 1954 International Journal of Psycho-Analysis XXXV 351: This was followed by a four-month period of “funking,” “fucking the dog,” characterized by drinking, missed hours, tardiness, and “sponging” on mother. 1962 E. Stephens Blow Negative 54: Those apes are screwing the dog all day long up there. 1967 W. Crawford Gresham’s War 125: “And meantime?” “Frick the dog, I reckon.” 1967 K. Kolb Getting Straight 70: Until you said that, I thought you’d been screwing the dog on this project. 1977 J. Sayles Union Dues 58: You let me catch you fuckin the dog again, so help me, you’ll be some sorry characters. 1978 T. Alibrandi Killshot 146: “You bet our entire stake on this one match?” “You got it, kid. No sense fucking the dog. We came to gamble, remember?” 1984 K. Weaver Texas Crude 93: Fuckin’ the dog and sellin’ the pups. Wasting time and loafing on the job. 1986 J. C. Stinson & J. Carabatsos Heartbreak Ridge 125: You hotshots are “fingering the dog” and you wind up killin’ every swinging dick in this platoon.2003 M. Atwood Oryx & Crake 328: Now quit fucking the dog and let us in.

  2. to bungle; blunder.

  1962 J. O. Killens Then We Heard the Thunder 144 [refers to WWII]: Saunders, I don’t know what I’m going to do with you…You’ve gone and fucked the dog again. 1985 J. T. Heywood Taxi Dancer 34: But he had “screwed the dog by the numbers.” He had failed to conserve fuel and he had forgotten about their bombs. 1998 Graydon Carter, in N.Y. Press (Oct. 21) 17: I gave you the opportunity of a lifetime and you fucked the dog. 2005 A. Miller Coast of Akron 313: Last time I was here, the Indians fucked the dog during the ’97 World Series.

  dogfuck noun

  trouble.—used with the.

  1978 W. Groom Better Times Than These 30: We’re really in the dogfuck now.

  dogfuck verb

  to engage in copulation with a male partner entering from the rear, especially anally.

  1967–80 E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 235: Dog fuck. Engage in anal intercourse. 1981 L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1987) 348: When they were done dogfucking they sprawled back awhile to rest and pant. 1986 in R. Chapman New Dictionary of American Slang: Including how to 69 and dogfuck. 2008 Deadspin.com (July 11): If I were an Arizona State fan and I wanted to go double agent as a way to get my team fired up? The banner sounds like a pretty good plan. Personally, I’d go with, “Hey Dawgs, Herschel is dog-fucking your wife right now. Enjoy Tempe.”

  double fuck noun

  an act of intercourse in which two people simultaneously copulate with a third person.

  ca1866 Romance of Lust 218: Bringing his stiff-standing prick against the root of mine, pressing it well down, he gently shoved forward, and gradually sheathed himself within the well-stretched and capacious orbit of my aunt, who winced a little in pretended pain, but who, by the grip she immediately gave to the double fuck within her, showed how much gratified she was. ca1890 My Secret Life VIII. iii.: I thought of the double fuck without the washing, of the prick in my mouth, and then felt ashamed.—“I must have been screwed and so excited that I did not know what I was about, I shall never do that again, and hope he won’t tell Sarah.” 1998 Suzifest ’98, on Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.stories.moderated (Oct. 26): Todd and James were going to give Suzi an old fashioned double-fuck.… They would “double-fuck” her from behind…a cock in her pussy, with another stuffed up her ass. 2007 K. Rockwood Very Private Secretary 81: He doubted if Mona desired such a double-fuck and, he strongly suspected, he wouldn’t be capable of it anyway.

  double-fuck verb

  1.a. (used as an imprecation or oath); God damn.—an emphatic form of FUCK, verb, definition 4a.

  1966 R. Fariña Been Down So Long 244: Double-fuck the letter. 1971 J. Sandford Down & Out in Britain 49: “Fuck you!” shouts the bearded man by the hot plate. “Double fuck you!” shouts another man back. 1997 A. Hoffman Here on Earth 37: As usual, the thoroughbred looks right through him. “Fuck you too.” Hollis is astounded at how damn haughty a horse can be. “Double fuck you.” 2002 J. McGahern That They May Face Rising Sun 75: At the foot of the ladders Patrick Ryan was slumped low but his breathing was growing easier. “Double fuck those for fucken cunts of bees,” he cried out. 2004 N.Y. Observer (Jan. 26) 2: Fuck South Dakota. Fuck New Mexico. Double-fuck Oregon. 2006 C. Adrian Children’s Hospital 66: A few things her brother might have said ran through her head—Double-fuck you, bitch!

  b. (used as an emphatic form of FUCK, verb, in other senses).

  1982 A. Lane & W. Crawford Vals (film script for ‘Valley Girls’) (rev. draft) 78: Then fuck off! Yeah…double fuck
off!!!1991 M. R. Zubro Sorry Now? 4: “Double and triple fuck,” Buck swore. 1998 Dallas Observer (May 14) (Nexis): The way I’ve always been musically is very selfish—I could only do what I like. I can’t sit there and go, “Oh, I think people will like this,” because you’re kind of double-fucked. You don’t like what you’re doing, and people don’t like it, then you got nothing. 2006 Adweek (Feb. 13) (Nexis): God, did I double-fuck that one up: overwritten, overproduced, over-not-funny, over-not-relevant, overboring, overstupid—over-everything, except over-good. 2007 S. King Blaze 348: I knew I was fucked, double-fucked, I was dead-ass-fucked in the pouring rain.

 

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