flak
Military Aviation. (a jocular euphemism for) FUCK.
1961 G. Forbes Goodbye to Some 120 [refers to WWII]: The 38’s will get the flak out of there. 1963 E. M. Miller Exile 57: “Flak you, fellows,” he said as the door slammed.
flat fuck noun & verb
among lesbians: a sexual act in which two women lie prone face to face and rub and stimulate each other; (as verb) to perform this act.
ca1890 My Secret Life IX. vii.: French women were much more free spoken than the English, who mostly said they disliked to touch another woman’s cunt, which I believed was a lie. One or two only, said they’d had a flat fuck with a friend, and what harm was there? ca1890 My Secret Life IX. ix.: Putting them on the top of each other I wanted them to flat fuck—Nelly refused, tho Sophy was ready for it, half screwed when she came and more so now, for I’d taken a bottle of gin with me. However they laid belly on belly with thighs wide apart, their mottes touching, cunt wigs entwining, but clitoris did not touch clitoris. 1970 R. Blake Porno Movies 169: She got to opening up the other girl’s pussy and they did a flat fuck together. 1980 Maledicta IV. 197: This practice may best be seen amongst lesbians…who prefer soixante-neuf to a flat fuck. 1998 S. Waters Tipping Velvet xviii. 415: “I said,” came a girl’s voice, “‘I only does that sort of thing, sir, with my friends.’ ‘Emily Pettinger,’ he said, ‘said you let her flat fuck you for an hour and a half’—which is a lie, but anyway, ‘Flat fucking is one thing, sir,’ I said, ‘and this quite another. If you want me to —her’”—here she must have made a gesture—“‘you shall have to pay me for it, rather dear.’”
flipping adjective & adverb
Chiefly British. (a euphemism for) FUCKING adjective & adverb.
1911 D. H. Lawrence White Peacock II. ix. 347: Ain’t it flippin’ ’ot? 1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident i. 2: Flipping heroes, ain’t we all? 1957 J. Kerouac Letter (Mar. 19) in Selected Letters 1957–69 14: In the original version there was no flipping confession and everyone read it and naturally didn’t miss it. 1959 Spectator (Nov. 20) 713/3: While terms of approval…change rapidly with the fashion, terms of disapproval (blinking…flippin’ awful…) show very little alteration. 1987 R. Curtis & B. Elton Blackadder the Third in R. Curtis et al. Black-Adder 311/2: Mysterious Northern beauty, Miss Amy Hardwood, comes to London and spends flipping great wodges of cash. 2002 N. Walker Blackbox 180: Dan told him to mind his own flipping business.
flying adjective
In phrases:
flying fuck, a damn; the least bit.—usually used in negative, with give. Also in euphemistic variants.
[a1850 (see quotation at fuck, noun, definition 1a). 1946–51 J. Jones From Here to Eternity [refers to 1941]: I don’t give a flyin’ fuck. 1953. Brossard Bold Saboteurs 30: They did not give a flying hoot. 1956 H. Ellison Deadly Streets 190: Tony didn’t give a flying damn. 1967 in H. Ellison Sex Misspelled 154: I…don’t give a flying shit what time you were behind your desk. 1973 R. M. Brown Rubyfruit Jungle 67: I don’t give a flying fuck what you do. 1974 V. C. Strasburger Rounding Third & Heading Home 12: Who gives a flying fuck, Junior? 1980 P. Conroy Lords of Discipline 297: He wouldn’t have given a flying crap about this city. 1984 W. D. Ehrhart Marking Time 19: Most…weren’t worth a flying fuck. 1985 K. Finkelman Head Office (film): He doesn’t give a flying shit about Stead-man’s position. 1992 M. Crichton Rising Sun 227: Older people don’t give a flying fuck, John. 1995 E. White Skinned Alive 9: He didn’t give a flying fuck about the Crowd. 1997 A. Proulx in New Yorker (Oct. 13) 79: And I don’t give a flyin fuck. 2005 M. H. Smith Delicious xi. 152: He didn’t give a flying fuck about the Bellagio’s water fountain.
[go] take a flying fuck, get away! go to hell! Also in euphemistic and elaborated variants, especially take a flying fuck at a rolling donut.
1926 L. H. Nason Chevrons 73 [refers to 1918]: Me, I’d tell ’em to take a flyin’ fling at the moon. 1929–30 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 271: I hadn’t the nerve/to…tell/them all to go take a flying/Rimbaud/at the moon. 1932 Miller & Burnett Scarface (film): “They said you could take a flyin’—” “That’s enough of that!” 1934 W. Saroyan in J. North New Masses (1969) 93: I didn’t obey my mother or my teachers and I told the whole world to take a flying you-know-what. 1935 J. Conroy World to Win 64: Go take a flyin’ jump at a gallopin’ goose for all o’ me. 1936 S. Kingsley Dead End 706: Well, go take a flyin’ jump at ta moon! 1938 J. O’Hara in Selected Letters 140: I say go take a flying fuck at a galloping r—ster. 1939 B. Appel Power-House 165: If this’s the Hamilton Dectective Agency it can take a flyin’ trip to the moon. 1941 C. Brackett & B. Wilder Ball of Fire (film): Tell the D.A. to take a flyin’ jump for himself. 1944 B. Stiles Serenade to the Big Bird 105: You can take a flying one at a rolling one. 1949 A. I. Bezzerides Thieves’ Market 122: He can go take a flying frig at himself. 1949 R. Pirosh Battleground (film) [refers to WWII]: Tell him to take a flyin’ leap at a rollin’ doughnut. 1952 C. Himes Stone 238: How would you like to take a flying frig at yourself? 1961 J. Brosnan Pennant Race 48: Brosnan, you take a flying leap at my —. 1962 J. O. Killens Then We Heard the Thunder 415: And you and your colored problems can take a flying frig at the moon. 1966 “T. Pendleton” Iron Orchard 40: You take a flyin’ bite at my ass! 1968 G. Swarthout Loveland 169: “Go take a flying jump at a rolling doughnut!” I hollered. 1968 K. Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five 147 [ref. to WWII]: Go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut.… Go take a flying fuck at the moon. 1971 L. Cameron First Blood 119: Why don’t you go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut? 1972 R. A. Wilson Playboy’s Book of Forbidden Words 107: Take a flying Philadelphia fuck in [sic] a rolling doughnut. 1972 Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In (NBC-TV): I told him to go take a flying leap. 1977 M. Torres in R. P. Rettig et al. Manny iv. 115/2: Why don’t you take a flying fuck at Mickey Mouse? 1979 J. Hurling Boomers 13: I…just told him to take a flyin’ fuck at a rollin’ doughnut. 1979 W. P. McGivern Soldiers of ’44 185 [refers to WWII]: Why don’t you take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut? 1966–80 J. McAleer & B. Dickson Unit Pride 117: Go take a flyin’ fuck at a rollin’ doughnut. Ibid. 408: You go take a flyin’ fuck at the moon. 1983 S. King Christine 296: Tell him to take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. 1985 J. Briskin Too Much Too Soon 264: Tell ’em to go take a flying fuck. 1988 D. DeLillo Libra 93: Take a flying fuck at the moon. 1995 A. J. Holt Watch Me 204: I told the Narc to take a flying fuck at himself. ca1999 F. Darabont Green Mile (film script) 99: No salesmen in the middle of the night!… Tell them to take a flying fuck. 2005 M. H. Smith Delicious 219: He struggled to repress his burning desire to tell this fat Samoan asshole to take a flying fuck at a rolling donut. Instead, he held up his hands.
FNG noun [fucking new guy]
Especially Military. a person who is a newly arrived member, especially of a combat unit. [Most quotations refer to the Vietnam War.]
1966 N.Y. Times Magazine (Oct. 30) 104: F.N.G. designates a “foolish new guy.” 1966 E. Shepard Doom Pussy 217: Major Nails says several FNGs believe it. 1972 T. O’Brien Combat Zone 73: Look, FNG, I don’t want to scare you. 1980 M. Baker Nam 54: Who the hell was I? This rather quiet, slightly older FNG. 1983 L. Van Devanter & C. Morgan Home Before Morning 80: “And what’s an FNG?” “What else?…A Fucking New Guy.” 1983 J. Groen & D. Groen Huey 7: Rather than look like FNGs, fucking new guys, including officers, suffered their anxieties quietly. 1985 J. McDonough Platoon Leader 65: Despite…his disdain for new guys (“FNGs” he would mutter under his breath),…he was the most respected member of the platoon. 1995 Newsweek (May 8) 8: FNG: F—ing New Guy; the latest crew hire. 2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confidential 226: Externs from culinary school, working for free as a “learning experience”—which by itself translates to “lots of work and no money”—are quickly tagged as FNG (Fucking New Guy), or Mel for mal carne (bad meat). 2004 Observer (Apr. 18) 21: More than half the girls don’t last a day. New staff are referred to as FNGs—Fucking New Guys—until they sort themselves out.
FO noun &
verb
Especially Military. = FUCK-OFF, noun & verb.
1945 American Speech (Dec.) 262: F.O., to avoid work. 1948 N.Y. Folklore Quarterly (Spring) 20. 1957 E. Brown Locust Fire 14a [refers to WWII]: I’m an R.O., you F.O. 1974 V. C. Strasburger Rounding Third & Heading Home 132: F.O., Carter. 1983 J. Groen & D. Groen Huey 98: “Just CA for a few months and then FO.” Cover your ass and then fuck off. 1988 O. Clark Diaries (1998) p. lxxvi, Nikki Waymouth flaunting her mammories—“Well, that’s it, you can all F.O. now.”
FOAD interjection [see FUCK OFF verb definition 1]
“Fuck Off And Die.”
1987 “Broken Bones” (title of rock album): F.O.A.D. 1993 IMHO - HELP! on Usenet newsgroup alt.business.multi-level (Dec. 4), citing The BBS_USER Unofficial Acronym List v1.9: FOAD - F *** Off And Die. 2004 AutoWeek (Nov. 8) 32: Public sentiment that so far is running 10-to-1 opposed, judging by public comment on NHTSA’s website.… Another comment was more succinct: “FOAD.” 2005 The Sun (London) (June 21) (Nexis): Shocked Niall Farrell was appalled to receive the four-letter tirade—contained in the acronym FOAD—which was first spotted by his 15-year-old daughter Mairead.
force-fuck verb
Especially Politics. to rape. Also figurative.
1972 B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 90: Force-fuck…to rape a man’s anus. 1976 T. Teal trans. Suzanne Brogger’s Deliver Us from Love 122: All the women who copulate to keep peace in the house are the victims of rape. All our grandmothers who just “let it happen” were essentially force-fucked all their lives. 1987 Nation (May 30) 722: MacKinnon’s bluster is stunning.… Since women are presumed “force-fucked,” sexuality is presented in the light of Marx’s theory of work. 1992 P. Hamill in Playboy (Jan. 1993) 138: According to Dworkin, all women are “force-fucked,” either directly through the crime of rape or by the male power of mass media, by male economic power or by the male version of the law.
forget verb
Originally Black English. to hell with; damn; FUCK, verb, definition 4a.
1969 Elementary English XLVI 495: F’get you, honky! 1983 Reader’s Digest Success with Words 85: Black English…forget it = “emphatic phrase expressing negation, denial, refutation.” 1980–89 J. E. Cheshire Home Boy 105: Forget you, shit-for-brains. 1990 Simpsons (Fox-TV): Forget you, pal! Thanks for nothin’! 1995 (see quotation at FUCK-YOU MONEY). 1997 M. Groening et al. The Simpsons: Complete Guide 117/1: Krusty. Now boys, ah, the network has a problem with some of your lyrics. Would you mind changing them for the show? Anthony. Forget you, clown. 2003 Gazette (Montreal) (Feb. 20) A4/3: I thought, “(Forget) this, I’d rather be written about than doing the writing.”
fork verb
to hell with; damn; FUCK, verb, definition 4a.
1954–60 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dictionary of American Slang: Fork You…Euphemism for fuck you. 1972 B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 88: Camp: “Fork you, Rose, we’re doing it my way!” a1990 B. Raspberry in A. Parfrey Apocalypse Culture (1990) (rev. ed.) 241: If you really thought white people are trying to force you to use these things [sc. drugs]—you don’t like white people, and you don’t want ’em to do it—fork them! Tell ’em to go to hell! 1997 A. Neiderman Dark 251: “Go fork yourself,” he said. Maggie smiled with confusion.
fouled-up adjective
Originally Navy & U.S. Marine Corps. confused, chaotic, or disorganized; (broadly) mistaken; (also) stupid or worthless. [Frequently regarded as a euphemism for FUCKED UP.]
1942 Time (June 15): The Army has a laconic term for chronic befuddlement: snafu, situation normal; all fouled up. 1942 Leatherneck (Nov.) 145: Fouled Up—mixed up, confused. 1942 Yank (Nov. 11) 4: Navy [slang]…Foul, or foul up—Trouble or being in trouble or to get someone in trouble. Thus, if a sailor gets all fouled up with a skirt, he’s got babe trouble. 1943 Saturday Evening Post (Mar. 20) 86: Those knuckle-heads are all fouled up. 1944 P. Kendall Service Slang 23: All fouled up…messed up. 1945 in California Folk Quarterly V (1946) 390: Fouled up like an ensign’s sea bag is the commonest [U.S. Navy simile]. 1940–46 McPeak Navy Slang Manuscript: You’re as fouled up as a man overboard in dry dock…as a mess-cook drawing small stores…as a marine at fire drill. 1947 J. C. Higgins Railroaded (film): Somebody’s all fouled up! 1948 W. Manone & P. Vandervoort Trumpet on the Wing 157: Aw, I don’t want to go out to ol’ Cali-fouled up-ornia and mess with those square people out there. 1949 Grayson & Andrews I Married a Communist (film): We’re trying to get some sense into a fouled-up situation while there’s still time. 1956 M. M. Boatner Military Customs & Traditions 125: Fire Call. A confused situation or formation. “All fouled up like a fire Call.” 1960 C. Simak Worlds 43: It was all just this side of crazy, anyhow. No matter how fouled up it was, Steen seemed satisfied. 1964 H. Rhodes Chosen Few 57: I’ve been in this fouled-up place for almost four years straight now and I don’t think I can or want to get used to it. 1967 W. Crawford Gresham’s War 7 [refers to Korean War]: I called him Goat, for fouled-up like Hogan’s goat, which he was. 1968 W.C. Anderson Gooney Bird 124: The whole thing is insanity. More fouled up than an Ethiopian fire drill. 1967–69 Foster & Stoddard Pops 1: I’ve always wanted to write down what I know about the times in New Orleans. Some of the books are fouled up on it and some of the guys weren’t telling the truth. 1977 R. S. Parker Effective Decisions 2: Some cynics might say, “It’s all society’s fault. That’s the real reason our lives are all fouled up.” 1981 J. Ehrlichman Witness to Power 21: Wooley earned a reputation for running the most fouled-up ticket and credential operation in modern Republican history. 1984 L. Fawcett & B. J. Greenwood UFO Cover-Up v. 76: Was it a fouled up administrative effort or was the Coast Guard suppressing information? Or was it both? 1992 R. Price Blue Calhoun 28: In my fouled up head, I thought that would hurt her even worse. 1998 Total Football (Aug.) 93/1: Colombia, the most fouled-up country in the footballing firmament, managed to forget its fear just enough to knock Tunisia out of the World Cup. 2000 B. Blech Complete Idiot’s Guide to Learning Yiddish 19: That was truly making a mishmash, a real fouled-up state of things, of the word mishmash. 2006 P. Anthony Stork Naked 154: Demon Xanth would lose, and Stymy would remain a hopelessly fouled-up low-echelon stork.
foul-up noun
1. Originally Navy & U.S. Marine Corps. a blunder leading to a state of confusion or inefficiency; (also) a state of confusion brought about by ineptitude or inefficiency; (also) a mechanical malfunction. [Frequently regarded as a euphemism for FUCK-UP, definition 1.]
1943 in R. Sherrod Tarawa 82: Orders…never came because of the radio foul-up. 1944 Newsweek (Feb. 7) 61: Janfu: Joint Army-Navy foul-up. Jaafu: Joint Anglo-American foul-up. 1945 J. Bryan Carrier 139: There’s been a foul-up. 1958 J. Thompson Getaway (1994) vii. 80: Checkroom attendants were always losing things.… Nothing ever happened, naturally, to a two-dollar suitcase with a few bucks worth of clothes in it. But let the bag contain something hot—money or jewelry or narcotics, or part of a dismembered corpse—and sure as shootin’ there was a foul-up. 1958 A. Hailey & J. Castle Runway Zero-Eight 109: There’s a foul-up on the phones in the press room. 1959 R. G. Fuller Danger! Marines at Work 143: “That’s the history of the rock, doll,” she was told. “Always a foul-up somewhere.” 1971 M. Dibner Trouble with Heroes 44: The foul-up was especially galling to this bunch because ten days earlier the landing had been smooth and undetected. 1986 F. Walton Once They Were Eagles 8: There he ran into a bureaucratic foulup: he couldn’t get back into the Marine Corps. 1991 G. Burn Alma Cogan ix. 190: I had worked the script up over many weeks with my parents… (I had to get it right first time; there was no overdubbing; any foul-up was going to cost them money). 2000 J. Simpson Mad World, My Masters viii. 275: Receive an emollient letter from Alastair Campbell. Not an apology, certainly, but then I didn’t expect one: governments never apologize. But he’s sorry it happened, and I get the impression he feels it was all a foul-up from their side. 2006 A. J. Zerries Lost Van Gogh 180: I never showed up at the school district office to sign the employment papers. A foul-up in the
system delayed our benefits from the government.
2. Especially Military. a bungler or misfit. [Frequently regarded as a euphemism for FUCK-UP, definition 2.]
1945 in M. Chennault Up Sun! 136: I know what you foulups were up to. 1954–60 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dictionary of American Slang: Foulup…A person who makes frequent blunders. 1964 J. Pearl Stockade 70: I should have known better than to trust that foul-up Larkin. 1965 S. Linakis In Spring the War Ended 293: These foul-ups are kids mostly. 1966 P. Derrig Pride of the Green Berets 144: Even if he is a short-timer we can’t afford even one foul-up in the outfit. 1978 H. Berry Make the Kaiser Dance 361: The CO would have the dental officer make out a form saying that Lieutenant Foulup needed a lot of work on his teeth. 1987 D. da Cruz Boot 49: You’re the worst bunch of foul-ups it’s ever been my misfortune to have inflicted on me. 1995 R. Didinger Game Plans for Success 130: Hey, this guy is a foul-up. We can’t trust him. 2006 J. Lutz Chill of Night 44: “She’s a foul-up?” “More a don’t-give-a-damn type. Mind of her own.”
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