Green’s Dictionary of Slang

prefixed by a single letter, e.g. F, to denote a spoken but unwritten obscenity.

1987		Dly News (NY) 4 Mar. 41/4: Dykstra was asked how his offseason was… ‘I wrote a book. Read it. You’ll like it. I got to drop a lot of f-bombs in it’.
1991		Boston Globe 11 Jan. sports sect. 31: It looked like I was calling him everything in the book…. I dropped the F-bomb a few times.
2005		D. Jenkins Slim and None 146: ’I'm putting you on the clock.’ ‘I’m on the clock? You're putting me on the clock? We're the last group on the golf course. Who the fuck are we holding up?’ [. . . .] I lobbed several more f-bombs into the atmosphere.
2013		Newser On Line 9 Feb. 🌐 Judge Forgives Teen Who Flipped Him Off. The Florida teen [...] flipped him the bird and dropped an f-bomb.
2021		P Howard Braywatch 11: [She] walked out of the church, lobbing fock-bombs over her shoulder.
2024		Irish Indep. 9 July 🌐 We love the F-bombs [...] We [hurling fans] want as many F-bombs as we can get. We want C-bombs and S-bombs too. Whatever bombs the crowd, the players, and the management can conjure up [...] we want to hear them.