English

Proper noun

Brainfuck

1. A minimalist esoteric programming language, created for amusement, in which every basic machine instruction is represented by a single character.
   • 2005, G. Braziller, Inc., Morten Søndergaard, Perttu Rastas, Björn Norberg, editors, Get real: real time + art + theory + practice + history, ISBN 0807615641, page 48:

     Some eccentric languages are structurally just as simple, but intentionally made awfully hard to understand — like the notorious languages Brainfuck […] or Malbolge.

   • 2008, Matthew Fuller, Software Studies: A Lexicon, ISBN 0262062747, page 269:

     Brainfuck is an archetypically minimalist language, providing merely eight commands, each represented by a single character. These commands operate on an array of 30000 byte cells initialized to 0.

   • 2010, Miguel Soriano, Sihan Qing, Javier López, Information and Communications Security: 12th International Conference, Icics 2010, Barcelona, Spain, December 15-17, 2010 Proceedings, ISBN 3642176496, page 345:

     Brainfuck language is the gotoless programming language, and it has a implicit byte pointer which is free to move […] In addition, Brainfuck defines only eight-instructions associated with the pointer […]

English

Noun

brainfuck ‎(plural brainfucks)

1. (vulgar) Something that destabilizes, confuses, or manipulates a person's mind.
   • 2004, Dana Hodgdon, Adam's Theories, iUniverse (2004), ISBN 0595313353, page 107:

     What a brainfuck. Little Roger, my brother, wanted to have a talk about sex.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:brainfuck.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Brainfuck

Synonyms

• headfuck (vulgar), mindfuck (vulgar), mindscrew

Verb

brainfuck ‎(third-person singular simple present brainfucks, present participle brainfucking, simple past and past participle brainfucked)

1. (vulgar) To destabilize, confuse, or manipulate a person's mind.
   • 1999, Boston Teran, God Is a Bullet, Ballantine Books, ISBN 0345439880, page 70:

     "I don't want to hear that. Don't try and brainfuck me by turning this around and making it some sort of redemption thing. […]

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:brainfuck.