The F-Word (42 page)

b
. to make a mistake; fail through inattention. Also: to ruin (something) by ineptitude.

1954–60
H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner
Dictionary of American Slang
204:
Fuck off
…to make a blunder or mistake.
1964
H. Rhodes
Chosen Few
225: You were on yo way t’breakin’ some kinda record, son, bu’cha fucked off on th’ five hundred.
1972
E. Bunker
No Beast
158: It’s too late. We
fucked off a score because you weren’t here.
1996
S. Jackson
Caught Up in the Rapture
102: I can’t go out like no sucka. Not now. Not after I done fucked off my relationships with everybody.

3
. to disregard; brush aside; put off.

1962
G. Ross
Last Campaign
431 [refers to 1951]: They been trying to retire him for months…but he keeps fucking them off and turning down his retirement and refusing to leave the division.

4
. to idle away.

1966
M. Braly
On the Yard
14: The big yard’s a cold place to fuck off your life.
1969
Playboy
(Dec.) 301: You’re going to get tired of running around in a pair of dirty Levis, fucking off your time with those other young cats.
1972
in
Journal of American Folklore
LXXXVI (1973) 222: Do you know what an old whore does on her vacation?—She just fucks it off.
a
1979
A. Pepper & L. Pepper
Straight Life
332: I used to get on his case all the time behind his talent, fuckin’ off that talent in the pen.
1999
D. A. Levy
Buddhist Third Class Junk Mail Oracle
12: Graduated from high school/& fucked off a summer/before joining the navy.

5
. Chiefly
British
. to anger; upset; “piss off.” Compare earlier
FUCKED OFF
.

1977
Sniffin’ Glue
(Jan.) 3/1: I was fucked off by that.
1995
N. Hornby
High Fidelity
297: “I’m glad you’re back to sort him out.”…This really fucks me off.
1998
Gay Times
(Aug.) 54/2: How can I put this without completely fucking him off…? He is a fantastic mixture of huge charm with a piranha’s instinct.
2002
S. Orr
Attempts to Draw Jesus
180: People like you fuck me off no end.

fuck-off money
noun

=
FUCK-YOU MONEY
.

1993
“Bono” in
Rolling Stone
(Mar. 4) 42: Because we had been spoiled by success financially, we had what Groucho Marx called “fuck-off money.”
1999
T. Clayton-Lea
Elvis Costello: Biography
194: You should always have your fuck-off money, as they say.
2000
H. Robbins
Secret
246: She was his fuck-off money. He could walk away from his law firm or walk
away from me. With Vicky he had a comfortable living available to him.
2007
New York Magazine
(June 18) 40: She received a $1 million settlement of her Talk contract. “… I got my fuck-off money,” she [
sc
. Tina Brown] says, snickering.

fuckola

(used as an intensified form of
FUCK
in various senses).

1970
D. Rubin
Enough of this Lovemaking
146: Right now killing is on top and the war has replaced the usual Hollywood fuckola as the national entertainment.
1979
L. Gonzales
Jambeaux
194: “Fuckola,” Page said, entering the dressing room.
1988
T. Harris
Silence of the Lambs
105:
Fuckola
, Starling thought. “Nuts,” she said aloud.
1990
C. Harrison
Break & Enter
119: We got a call from the Mayor’s office saying they wanted this done by the book.… That means he wants no fuckola bullshit screwups.
1998
E. Coen & J. Coen
Big Lebowski
(film): Fuck me! Fuckola, man.
2004
C. Naylor & M. Hare
Second Assistant
213: “Holy fuckola!” Scott suddenly leaped up in his chair and high-fived me.

fuck out
verb

1
. of a thing: to fail, to break down; of a person: to back out; renege.

1978
U.S. college student: My car fucked out on me. Motor conked. You can’t even jump it anymore.
1982
R. B. Wright
Teacher’s Daughter
191: I just don’t want anybody to fuck out on this. We can make ourselves some nice money this morning if nobody fucks out.
Ibid.
202: That’s what the job is worth. You fucked out on us.
1985
C. Hope
Kruger’s Alp
154: “You fucked out on us, Trev,” said the man called Kramer from Accounts.
1993
J. Noon
Vurt
96: lt works up to a point, and it’s not much of a point. lt can cure the tiny troubles; it fucks out on the big troubles.

2
. to be sexually unfaithful.

ca
1975
M. Moore
Black Trade
62: You’re a loyal boy. You’ve never tried fucking out on me…like sometimes I suspect the others to do.
1984
J. McCorkle
Cheer Leader
15: “I cannot tell a lie” is important and fucking out on Martha is not.

fuck over
verb
[probably
FUCK
(
UP
) + (
work
)
over
] Especially
Black English
.

1
. to treat harshly or with contempt, in any manner whatsoever; mistreat, victimize, cheat, betray, etc.; damage. [The 1961 quotation is euphemistic.]

1961
J.A. Williams
Night Song
155: Eagle ain’t even cold yet and you cats are effin’ over him already.
1965
C. Brown
Manchild in the Promised Land
98: We couldn’t be fucked over but so much.
1966
in
Folk Speech
(Indiana University Folklore Archives): Used to mean that someone or something has been used to the point of abuse.
fucked over
.
1967–68
N. von Hoffman
We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against
55: My head’s pretty badly fucked over by life in general.
1968
W. Mares
Marine Machine
93: You fucked over those weapons so much they probably will never fire again for other privates.
1969
D. Mitchell
Thumb Tripping
125: He couldn’t let this Brylcreamer fuck over his head. He’d have to keep it together.
1969
E. Willis in
New American Review 6
(Apr.) 103: Fuck over the city. Do them in.
1970
D. Ponicsan
Last Detail
17: Don’t it sound like somebody’s fucking over Meadows?
1970
T. Whitmore
Memphis-Nam-Sweden
134: I was refusing to be a part of that country which was fucking over my own people.
1972–76
C. Durden
No Bugles, No Drums
16: It was a weird scene, a noncom fuckin’ over an officer in front of grunts.
1976
in S. Mack
Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies
(unpaged): Bill, it’s a dog eat dog world. They gonna fuck all over you, man!
1974–77
A. Hoffman
Property Of
221: Something gets fucked over in the store, take it out of her wages.
1977
M. Torres in R. P. Rettig et al.
Manny
ii. 63/2: Just because you can’t prove me guilty of your armed robbery, now you’re going to fuck over me with some phony charge.
1979
Coleman Young, Mayor of Detroit, in S. Terkel
American Dreams
357: I was attracted to this…way of fighting back at the thing that had been fuckin’ me over all my life.
1985
W. J. Boyne & S. L. Thompson
Wild Blue
453: We can’t let these punks fuck over the whole goddam Air Force!
1988
S. Gray
How’s that for Telling ’em, Fat Lady?
ii. 68: All that he understood was that he was being ordered not to be the actor that he is, playing the character that he’s playing—his very soul as an actor was being “fucked over” in fact was how he put it.
1991
D. Simon
Homicide
(1993) 28: Is he really gonna go after a police on this Monroe Street thing? He’s gonna try and fuck over another police because of some dead yo? What is he, a rat or something?
1994
New Yorker
(Mar. 21) 125: If Joel Silver fucked me over tomorrow, if he murdered my family, ruined me financially, I would still have to say, “But, God, when you add it all up, he was so great to me.”
2001
D. Lehane
Mystic River
370: If you give ’em half a chance, they’ll fuck you over just to prove they can.
2005
N. Hornby
Long Way Down
35: He’d been locked up for sleeping with a fifteen-year-old, and fucked over in the tabloids.

2
. to beat up; work over.

1970
E. E. Landy
Underground Dictionary
84:
Fuck over
…Beat someone up.
1971
T. Mayer
Weary Falcon
31: The fourth mission I went on was the time they really fucked us over.
1986
College instructor, age 35: When I first heard
fuck someone over
in 1966, it meant specifically to beat them up.
2000
M. Albo
Hornito
108: “I’m gonna fuck you up.”
Just leave me alone
, I say. “No. I’m gonna fuck you over.”

fuck pad
noun

a dwelling or room used for esp. casual sexual encounters.

1975
B. Gonzales
Movin’ On Down De Line
36: When I walk into his combination office and fuck pad I see this little jive broad from Howard of Tuskegee.
1988
J. Ellroy
Big Nowhere
(1994) iii. 28: He met Howard Hughes and started bird-dogging for him, picking up star-struck farm girls, ensconcing them in the fuck pads the big guy had set up all over LA.
1997
G. Williams
Diamond Geezers
xi. 77: If it weren’t for the horses this could be the fuck-pad of some Cuban cocaine king.
2002
W. Self
Dorian
iv. 57: Such was the congruity of their home with the Wotton’s relationship that this was Henry’s bedroom, or, more properly, his fuck pad.
2007
R. Ellis
City of Fire
217: Burell thought he was keeping his lifestyle in the vault, but everybody in the hood knows this place is a fuck pad.

fuck-pig
noun

British
. a contemptible person. Compare
PIG-FUCKER
.

1922
T. E. Lawrence
The Mint
(1955) 127: “Look at me, look me in the face, you short-arsed little fuck-pig,” he is yelling again.
1949
E. Partridge
Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English
(ed. 3) 1054:
F*ck-pig
. A thoroughly unpleasant man…from ca. 1870.
1961
A. Sillitoe
Key to
the Door
(1962) 435: They can stuff their rifles.… Next time, I turn mine against that fuckpig.
1973
K. Tynan
Diary
(Mar. 20) (2001) 126: Where most men of his age, referring to slightly unpleasant people whom they regard as inferiors, would use words like “chap,” “fellow,” “blighter”.., L.O. [= Laurence Olivier] habitually calls them “fuck-pigs.”
1981
R. Spears
Slang & Euphemism
150:
Fuck-pig
a very low and worthless person; someone who would copulate with a pig.
1993
I. Welsh
Trainspotting
(1994) 260: I know all about the crucial role of the anaesthetist. They’re the punters that keep you alive, not sadistic fuck-pigs like Howison.
1997
Sick Puppy Comix
(Sydney, Australia) (No. 4) 13: Ahh…what’s your name? Hey, ahh…fuckpig!…Where are you going?
1998
Schizo
(#3) 5: My co-workers were all loutish…fuck-pigs.
2003
E. Docx
Calligrapher
69: Will you stop being such a fuckpig and think of a plan?

fuckpole
noun

the penis;
FUCKSTICK
, definition 2.

1965
in B. Jackson
Get Your Ass in the Water & Swim like Me
159: A fuck-pole longer than mine.
1972
B. Rodgers
Queens’ Vernacular
49: Bone…fuckpole…meat.
1975
Ribald
(Sydney, Australia) (May 29) 15: My fuck-pole was growing.
1985
“J. Blowdryer”
Modern English
72: Genitalia… Male…
Fuck pole
.
1995
G. Vidal
Palimpsest
94: The verse, what I could recall, moved him, and he would idly play with what he called his “fuck-pole” but in no provocative way.
1997
“G. Indiana”
Resentment
35: My cunt lips grab that juicy donghead & i’m pulling your fuck pole into me.
2002
D. Porter
Rhinestone Country
304: The deep-throating of Hank’s enticingly large fuckpole.