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expletive deleted

noun

Etymology

Attested since at least the 1930s, but popularized in the U.S. after the Watergate scandal, during which transcripts of conversations were published with profanity replaced by “[EXPLETIVE DELETED]”.

Definitions

  1. An all-purpose profanity.

    • Because you sold him out just to have a martyr, you expletive deleted.

  2. To have sex with.

    • I’d like to expletive deleted you. Oh, expletive, that’s what I’d like to do.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for expletive deleted. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA