goddamn

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An expression of anger, surprise, intense excitement or frustration.

   • Person A: You're not going to believe this: he just did it again, despite your warning. Person B: Goddamn!
   • Person A: You're not going to believe this: he just did it again, despite your warning. Person B: God damn him!
2. 2

   Damned by God.

3. 3

   Used as an intensifier.

   • Where's the goddamn cartridge?
   • You were in the background; you were a goddamn extra! That's good enough!
   • I know this may seem a bit out of the box, but isn't this a particularly lousy time in history for the Congress to go on vacation for six goddamn weeks.
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   1. 4

      A more emphatic form of damn.

      • I don't give a goddamn.
   2. 5

      Alternative form of goddam (“an English person, from French perspective”).

      • The goddamns (British soldiers) are coming / To steal your children. / Awaken! Awaken! / Acadian men / To save our heritage.
   3. 6

      Alternative letter-case form of goddamn.

      • You got your wars. And you got your riggers riot through the street—Gettysburg, or some Goddamn place like that.
      • ‘Second, if you guys had done your work we wouldn’t be here now with our dicks in our hands waiting for the Goddamn world to end!’

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