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verb
To not care at all; to have no concern or interest; to be apathetic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, nonstandard, proscribed
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Synonyms: couldn't care less, not give a tinker's cuss, not give a tinker's damn
Antonyms: none provided
History
An alteration of couldn’t care less (which is first attested slightly earlier), either: * by deliberate irony, or * by hyponegation, perhaps influenced by forms such as “as if I could care less”, “no one could care less”, and “to know little (or nothing) and care less”.
