fuck, the phr.
1. (also dafuq, in the fuck, in the eff) var. on hell, the phr. (1) used in questions, e.g. what the fuck...? phr.
| [ | ![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Uncle Silas II 88: And why the puck don’t you let her out, you stupe?]. |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | (con. 1910s) Call It Sleep (1977) 278: An’ de nex’ time watch out who de fuck yer chas-in’. | |
| in Derelicts of Company K (1978) 291: Son of a bitch! Where in the fuck’s that truck? | |
| letter 24 Oct. in Leader (2000) 99: Whey the fock do they pinrt [sic] them eh. | |
| diary 9 Feb. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 51: The Captain’s passing. Wants to know what the fuck’s going on. | |
| Naked Lunch (1968) 51: How in the fuck should I know? | |
| Night Song (1962) 161: How in the eff are the pegs sellin’, you mother! | |
| (con. 1950s) Unit Pride (1981) 333: Where in the fuck’ve you been? | |
| letter 3 Oct. in Proud Highway (1997) 641: Why the fuck should I? | |
| Friends of Eddie Coyle 17: I don’t know why the fuck I come down here every week. | |
| Picture Palace 134: Who the fuck are you trying to impress? | |
| (con. 1960s) London Blues 267: How the fuck can some guy just walk up to the man who assassinated the 35th President of the United States of America and shoot him dead? | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Filth 221: Who the fuck does he think he is? | |
| Gone, Baby, Gone 204: ‘The fuck happened up there?’ Poole said. | |
| (con. 1977) Nineteen seventy-seven 4: Where the fuck’s Maurice? | |
| Layer Cake 2: Well, where the fuck is he? | |
| Hooky Gear 156: Hes also property developer, luxury car dealer, former diplomatic whatever-the-fuck to the overseas development department of wherever-the-fuck. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | ‘Family’ in Turning (2005) 182: Why the fuck are you here? | |
| (con. 1973) Johnny Porno 12: Fuck’s in a name? | |
| me-stepmums-too-fuckin-hot-mate at www.fakku.net 🌐 The fuck did you come from? | |
| (ed.) UNC-CH Campus Sl. Spring 2016 10: T.F. — the fuck : ‘Where t.f. is our personalized snapchat story for the game?’. | |
| Guardian Guide 21 May 11/2: How the fuck was I gonna buy a house. | |
| Opal Country 29: ‘How the fuck does anyone live out here?’. | |
| Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 47: How the fuck I did this twenty-some-odd years ago? | |
| Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 289: Ise like, Dafuq? |
2. as infix, e.g. shut the fuck up.
| (con. early 1950s) Valhalla 488: I’ll take care of it. Be right the fuck back. | |
| (con. 1940s) Wax Boom 273: I might blow my top [...] if people don’t start leaving me the fuck alone! | |
| Slave in Three Negro Plays (1969) Act I: But just sit the fuck down. | |
| (con. 1950s) Unit Pride (1981) 323: Will you put him the fuck away? | |
| Howard Street 50: Well come the fuck on in and quit that damn yellin’! | |
| Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1994) 95: That pisses the fuck off outta me. | |
| (con. 1969) Dispatches 79: I want you to just shut the fuck up. | |
| It (1987) 578: I’m going to eat you right the fuck up! | |
| Misery (1988) 24: You’re effing right, Annie, coming right the eff up? | |
| (con. 1970s) Donnie Brasco (2006) 269: I’ll blow the fuck everybody up. | |
| Skin Tight 88: Mick, what are you doing way the fuck out here? | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Van (1998) 414: Shut up the fuck! said Jimmy Sr. | |
| Native Tongue 30: Hey, lighten the fuck up. She’s an old lady, Danny. Old ladies never lie. | |
| Stormy Weather 14: Snapper instructed her to shut the holy fuck up. | |
| Permanent Midnight 155: Chill the fuck out, okay? | |
| It Was An Accident 52: Just let me the fuck in. | |
| (con. 1986) Sweet Forever 40: Tell him to get his hair the fuck out of his face. | |
| (con. 1970s) King Suckerman (1998) 70: A brother [...] instructed him to sit his ‘narrow ass the fuck on down’. | |
| Guardian 4 Mar. 25: Wake da fuck up, Nottingham. | |
| Dreamcatcher 532: Shut the fuck up. | |
| ‘The Target’ Wire ep. 1 [TV script] Sit the fuck down, Detective. | |
| Thrill City [ebook] I was turning into a sissy, a nancy, a goddam girl. Toughen the fuck up. | |
| Guardian 8 Aug. 🌐 These ‘role models’, he tweeted, ‘need to speak the fuck up [and] help stop this’. | |
| Corruption Officer [ebk] cap. 6: ‘Back the fuck up,’ she yelled. | |
| Drawing Dead [ebook] The joke as always was right the fuck on me. | |
| Panopticon (2013) 164: I wish he’d shut the fuck up. | |
| Headland [ebook] ‘I mean it, Davie. Shut the fuck up’. | |
| Dead Man’s Trousers [41]: Even rattling on ching and alcohol withdrawal, I can still man the fuck up. | |
| Price You Pay 115: [S]he won’t completely freak the fuck out when she finds out real Justin was stabbed in the heart. | |
| Boyo-wulf at https://boyowulf.home.blog 5 May 🌐 And these lads who avoided this mad feen stayed the absolute fuck away after that. | |
| ‘Broken’ in Broken 19: ‘Hand it the fuck over’. | |
| Orphan Road 104: ‘Don’t move and shut the fuck up, you Aussie fuck’. |
3. a general intensifier implying quantity or intensity; a var. on hell, the phr. (3)
| (con. 1960s) Whoreson 221: Well, I sure the fuck ain’t no dopefiend. | |
| More Tales of the City (1984) 9: Almost anything beats the fuck out of Cleveland. | |
| Van (1998) 473: He took another hunk of the mullet and chewed fuck out of it. | |
| Hip-Hop Connection Jan. 74: The Millennium Eve dilemma doesn’t really exist if you love the fuck out of hip-hop. | |
| Campus Sl. Nov. 3: – the fuck outta – do something well and completely: We ate the fuck outta that pizza. | |
| Intractable [ebook] If I made an error they flogged the fuck out of me until I got it right. |
4. a general intensifier used to express anger, annoyance, impatience; a var. on hell, the phr. (2)
| Dealer 8: ‘Jim you fucker I’m gonna shoot you,’ the man said, smiling. ‘Fuck you gonna shoot me. What for?’ ‘Man, you shorted me on that brick’. | |
| Dog Soldiers (1976) 88: ‘You’re not a self-respecting person.’ ‘The fuck I ain’t.’. | |
| Christine 401: ‘He didn’t know anything,’ Junkins said. ‘The fuck he didn’t,’ Mercer said. | |
 | Good Eve., Mr Collins I ii: That litttle get Ryan should be sent on a long holiday or more to the point put under but fuck the bit of you would listen to a word I was saying. | |
| Finders Keepers (2016) 57: Do you think all that stuff was legitimately bought and sold? The fuck it was. | |
| Base Nature [ebook] [He] told himself to calm the fuck down. | |
| Widespread Panic 4: Get me the fuck out of here!!!!! |
5. the essence, the spirit, ‘the daylights’, e.g. slap the fuck out of.
| Observer Mag. 22 Aug. 14: And I’ll make sure I slap the fuck out of you before I’m done. | |
| Grits 145: I bang fuck out uv Colm’s durr. | |
| Outlaws (ms.) 59: If four black lads knocked fuck out of us, there and then, they’d think that was alright. | |
| Pigeon English 100: We’re gonna smash the f— out of ’em. | |
| Rough Trade [ebook] ‘The two who got taken away in the ambulance got the unholy fuck beaten out of them’. | |
| Bloody January 3: Bully squads beating the fuck out of troublesome prisoners. | |
| Young Team 19: Their other mate [...] is pannelin fuck oot ae Finnegan. |
6. abbr. of what the fuck...? phr. (1) or vars.; the question word is implied.
| Digger’s Game (1981) 73: The fuck you doing playing blackjack? | |
| Rat on Fire (1982) 8: The fuck’re you doin’ there [...] You got time enough, fuck around on those roads? | |
| Patriot Game (1985) 26: The fuck you trying to do, huh? | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | One Night Out Stealing 80: Sonny, the fuck is going on here ya think? [...] Then Jube, in as soft a voice as Sonny’d heard from the man asking, Son? The fuck is happening to us? | |
| Curvy Lovebox 33: De fokk you tokkin about? | |
| Tuff 106: ‘Fuck kind of theory is that?’ Clifford groused. | |
| A Steady Rain I i: denny: The fuck is Rhonda? joey: She split. | |
| Deuce’s Wild 118: ‘Fuck you doin’ back here?’ he asked. | |
| (con. 2016) in We Own This City 180: ‘Baltimore County?’ Shropshire thought. ‘Fuck they want?’. |
In phrases
to leave, to go away; the use of fuck intensifies the urgency.
| in Derelicts of Company K (1978) 288: I want to get the fuck out of here. | |
| Last Exit to Brooklyn 290: She flipped her cigarette at the car and told him ta get the fuck outtahere. | |
| Erections, Ejaculations etc. 68: I’m gonna get the fuck out of this hole! | |
| 1985 (1980) 223: Fuck off = get the fuck out of here. | |
| Goodfellas [film script] 30: Will you get the fuck out of here. | |
| Pugilist at Rest 135: I wanted to get the f-u-c-k out of the place. | |
| Hooky Gear 218: Sensi & me pile Krypton scrap an non-ferrous metal on top an a load other shit an get the fuck out. | |
| Cherry Pie [ebook] ‘She wanted to get the fuck out of the hospitality industry’. | |
| Viva La Madness 125: Sonny wants to get the fuck out. | |
| Glorious Heresies 166: ‘[G]et the fuck out of my house’. |
to beat someone up severely.
| Grass Arena (1990) 89: When the party got out of hand and he tried to leave they kicked the fuck out of him. | |
| Vinnie Got Blown Away 147: Got him in the shithouse, kicked fuck out of him. | |
| Urban Grimshaw 163: We’ll all be in jail and we won’t be able to kick fuck out of the nonces. | |
| Intractable [ebook] ‘[P]ick the biggest bloke in the group, the leader of the pack, and bash the living fuck out of him’. | |
| ‘No Through Road’ in Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] We [...] watch Dudikoff kick the fuck out of an entire army of lesser ninjas. | |
| Cherry 211: And now there were six bros and it looked like I was about to get the fuck beaten out of me. | |
| Riker’s 172: [A]nytime somebody would get out of line, Trinny would beat the fuck out of them. |
to terrify.
| Trainspotting 149: Such people really scared the fuck out of Renton. | |
| Workin’ It 158: I was scared the fuck to death about from [sic] having sex. |
In exclamations
1. an intensified var. on go away!
| From Here to Eternity (1998) 855: Get the f-- out of my way. | |
| Inner City Hoodlum 175 ‘Get the fuck outta here!’ he screamed. | |
| (con. 1950s–60s) in Little Legs 129: You get the fuck. That means, fuck off. | |
| ‘Bitches Ain’t Shit’ 🎵 Get’s the fuck out after you’re done. | |
| ‘Good God’ 🎵 on Life Is Peachy [album] You stole my life without a sign / You sucked me dry. / Why dont you get the fuck out of my face, now? | |
| Florida Roadkill 90: Take Carlie Brown here and get the fuck out! | |
| Westsiders 36: If you don’t go to school and work then get the fuck out. |
2. an intensified var. on get out of here! and similar phr. of (joc.) disbelief.
| Down These Mean Streets (1970) 20: ‘You cop out?’ ‘Yeah, I cop out.’ ‘You cop a plea?’ ‘Yeah, man, I cop a plea. Now will you get the fuck outta here?’. | |
| We Shall Not Die 58: Run, Panca! Get di fuck out! Babylon! | |
| Spidertown (1994) 40: She laughed, striking his chest with a pointed foot. ‘Get the fuck.’. | |
| Observer Mag. 4 Jan. 20: Get the fuck out of here! that’s crazy. |