- [countable, usually singular] an act of sex
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- the fuck[singular] used for emphasis, or to show that you are angry, annoyed or surprised, or that you do not care
- What the fuck are you doing?
- Let's get the fuck out of here!
- And then I thought—what the fuck?
Word Originearly 16th cent.: of Germanic origin (compare Swedish dialect focka and Dutch dialect fokkelen); possibly from an Indo-European root meaning ‘strike’, shared by Latin pugnus ‘fist’.
Idioms
not give a fuck (about somebody/something)
- to not care at all about somebody/something
- He doesn’t give a fuck about anyone else.
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