Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
An all-purpose profanity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic, humorous, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An all-purpose profanity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, euphemistic, humorous, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To have sex with.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic, humorous, rare
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Attested since at least the 1930s, but popularized in the U.S. after the Watergate scandal, during which transcripts of conversations were published with profanity replaced by “[EXPLETIVE DELETED]”.
