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English
Noun
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- (euphemistic, humorous) an all-purpose profanity
- 2013, J. David Markham and Mike Resnick, History Revisited: The Great Battles, Eminent Historians Take on the Great Works of Alternative History. BenBella Books, ISBN 9781935251613, p. 41:
- Because you sold him out just to have a martyr, you expletive deleted.
- 2013, J. David Markham and Mike Resnick, History Revisited: The Great Battles, Eminent Historians Take on the Great Works of Alternative History. BenBella Books, ISBN 9781935251613, p. 41:
Adjective
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- (euphemistic, humorous) an all-purpose profanity
- 2003, Toby Miller, “What It Is and What It Isn’t: Cultural Studies Meets Graduate Student Labor”. In Austin Sarat and Jonathan Simon (eds.), Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism. Duke University Press, ISBN 9780822384755, p. 90:
- You are paid a lot of money; kindly do some expletive-deleted work.
- 2003, Toby Miller, “What It Is and What It Isn’t: Cultural Studies Meets Graduate Student Labor”. In Austin Sarat and Jonathan Simon (eds.), Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism. Duke University Press, ISBN 9780822384755, p. 90: