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f-bomb

noun

Etymology

From f (“abbreviation of fuck”) + bomb (“(euphemism marker)”), and thence other words beginning f. Likely based on the term H-bomb.

  1. derived from βόμβος
  2. derived from bombus
  3. derived from bomba
  4. borrowed from bombe
  5. compounded as f-bomb — “f + bomb”

Definitions

  1. The word fuck.

    • From hip-hop artists to bloggers to the vice president of the United States, everyone's dropping the F-bomb.
    • When he started out in 1981 Regan would throw in the odd F-bomb to spice up a joke, but eventually he just eliminated them from his act.
    • The Ontario government treaded similar territory with the rollout of its Flick Off campaign, intended to encourage young people to conserve energy by turning off lights and appliances, but obviously hinting at the f-bomb.

  2. The word funk.

  3. The word faggot or fag.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Alternative letter-case form of f-bomb.

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Derived

atomic F-bomb, cluster F-bomb, drop the f-bomb

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for f-bomb. 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