Green’s Dictionary of Slang

4-Fs n.

also Four F, four Fs
[note Mae West in I’m No Angel (1933) tells her maid to ‘find ’em, fool ’em and forget ’em’ when it comes to men; the rap group NWA used ‘find ’em, fuck ’em and flee’ in 1991]

(US) the slogan ‘find ’em, feel ’em, fuck ’em (or euph. as fool ’em) and forget ’em’, the axiom for macho US youth in its dealings with women; thus the metaphorical ‘club’ supposedly uniting those males who subscribe to such a philosophy; also occas. such a male; sometimes amplified to five Fs by adding ‘feed ’em’ after ‘find ’em’.

[US]Broadway Brevities Aug. 32: Find ’em, fool ’em and forget ’em — that's me!
[US]Mezzrow & Wolfe Really the Blues 218: The sharks was droppin’ shucks like the Yellow Kid, tryin’ to tighten her, and weavin’ the four F’s all ’round her.
[UK]A.B. Hollingshead Elmtown’s Youth (1975) 316: They call themselves the Five F’s – ‘find ’em, feed ’em, feel ’m, f--- ’em, forget ’em’.
[US]Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Sl. (2nd edn) 356.3: The four F’s, high-pressure romancing — find ’em, fool ’em, frig ’em, and forget ’em.
[US](con. WWII) J.O. Killens And Then We Heard The Thunder (1964) 11: Jogy Grinder is a civilian – any lucky four-goddamn-F that’s laying up with your old lady and grinding her all night long while you’re away in the service.
Harris & Freeman Lords of Hell 30: What a sportsman mean when he say weaving the four F’s is—you got to find you chick and you got to fool her and you got to frig her and forget her! [HDAS].
[US](con. 1950s) H. Junker ‘The Fifties’ in Eisen Age of Rock 2 (1970) 102: The 4-F Club: findem, feelem, fuckem, forgetem.
[US]J. Lahr Hot to Trot 7: Melish, baby, the Four F’s are forever [...] Find ’em. Feel ’em. Fuck ’em. Forget ’em.
[US]Maledicta IX 194: This article and series devoted to sexual slang would be incomplete without some notice of catch phrases, both British and American: […] Four F: find, feel, fuck, forget.
[[Aus] www.thepantsman.com 🌐 As an African guy once told me in Lithuania: ‘Find it. Fuck it. Forget it.’].