The F-Word (50 page)

3
. something or someone that causes confusion or disorientation.

1993
“Wildhearts” (song title): My baby is a headfuck.
1996
P. Attanasio
Donnie Brasco
(film script) (second Green rev. pages) 93: You sit in your little fucking house…and you complain on the phone to your little fucking friends and you dream up this latest hundred dollar headfuck.
2003
Word
(May) 47/1:
Jacob’s Ladder
is great because it’s just a headfuck.
2004
Vice
(Feb.) 36/2: Now we have films like Spike Jonze’s
Adaptation
, a multi-levelled, metatextural headfuck that you need to debate afterwards with your friends.

4
. imaginary sexual activity;
MINDFUCK
noun
sense 1.

1997
Good Vibrations Guide to Sex
99/1: We decided it was only unfaithful if we touched each other…so we…talked utter filth to each other while masturbating. A true “head-fuck” that lasted for about eight hours.
2007
A. Tyler
G is for Games
68: I imagin[e] taking him into my mouth, feeling his cock stiffen further.… I’m lost in my headfuck when he returns.

headfuck
adjective

Chiefly
British
. confusing; misleading.

1992
i-D
(July) 61/3: We’re trying to reflect the scene; the balearic, the techno and the late night post-club ambient headfuck music.
1999
S. Reynolds
Generation Ecstasy
217: With its premium on headfuck weirdness and disorienting effects, darkcore opened up a vital space for experimentation.
2003
T. Neradin
Last Train
40: Pete was now strapped firmly into his seat on the head-fuck roller-coaster and it was making its first ascent.

headfuck
verb

1
. to confuse, mislead, or the like, especially deliberately;
MIND-FUCK
.

1974
B. Hoddeson
Porn People
117: Other typical
Ball
stories include…“Fucking and Headfucking.”
1978
R. Price
Ladies’ Man
211: I feel like you’re fucking with my head.… I feel head-fucked.
1985
R. Frede
Nurses
287: I told you, Trina. Don’t pull that headfucking with me.
1994
I. Welsh
Marriage
in
Acid House
278: It’s strong acid, real head-fucking gear, but when we get to Roxy’s we start drinking like there’s no tomorrow.
1999
L. Hird
Born Free
97: Why do mentally ill people always try and bring you down to their level? I’m leaving if she’s going to head-fuck me like this.
2005
B. Paloff trans. Dorota Maslowska
Snow White & Russian Red
111: I don’t know how head-fucked you have to be to ring the doorbell to a stranger’s house in such an assholey way.

2
. to engage in fellatio;
SKULL-FUCK
.

1979
F. Picano
Lure
97: Head fucking. Cocksucking. Words from gymnasium locker rooms.
1987
T. Boyle
Post-Mortem Effects
225: Then having head-fucked her and ejaculated in her ears, hair, eyes, nostrils, mouth, they hopped in a car and drove away, leaving the woman behind.
1988
“Ultra Violet”
Famous for 15 Minutes
165: You know about fist fucking and head fucking?
2007
P. Frost
Deep Inside
216: I pumped his dick, squeezed his balls, and lost myself in the sensation of being head-fucked.

headfucker
noun

1
. a person who deliberately confuses or misleads people.

1967
R. Drexler
Line of Least Existence
23: You know something —you’re a real head fucker.
1972
R. Drexler
To Smithereens
25: If you don’t
stop being such a head-fucker I’m gonna walk in the other direction.
1985
R. Frede
Nurses
314: You’re a real headfucker, aren’t you?
2003
Time Out
(London) (Feb. 26) 192: While searching, people try, usually unsuccessfully, to protect themselves from wrong ’uns, of which there are many: commitmentphobics; headfuckers; manipulators; liars; and deeply damaged, addicted people who will never be able to put anyone but themselves first.

2
. a powerful hallucinogenic or psychotropic drug; (also) a strong alcoholic drink.

1975
in R. Spears
Slang & Jargon of Drugs & Drink
254: Headfucker [“a potent head drug”].
a
1989
R. Spears
NTC Slang Dictionary
176: This stuff is a real headfucker. Stay away from it.
2006
Urban Dictionary
(Apr. 20) (online):
Headfucker
, A large bowl of mixed alcoholic drinks with a small amount of juice which fucks your head up and makes you do silly things and forget them.

HMFIC
noun
[probably modeled on
HNIC
‘Head Nigger In Charge’]

“ H
ead
M
other
F
ucker
I
n
C
harge.”

1994
T. Reed & J. Cummings
Compromised
187: Max boasted to Terry that he had been “hand-selected by the White House” to set up and oversee this operation. He made it very clear that he would be what Terry later termed the HMFIC, “the head mother-fucker in charge.”
1997
J. Crotty
How to Talk American
200: HMFIC: Head “Military Figure” in Charge.
2001
R. Martini
Hot Straight and Normal
114: When going below decks looking for a decision maker whether a chief or an officer a sailor would say who’s the HMFIC?
2004
B. Williams
Spare Parts
219: This is all mine, brother. I might be a private, but I’m the HMFIC of this prison camp.

honeyfuck
noun

a sexy young woman. Also: an unusually gratifying act of copulation.

1967
F. Pollini
Crown
259: “You’re some honey,” he said. “
Some honeyfuck
.”
1970
E. Thompson
Garden of Sand
295: Come on,… honey-fuck.
1979
L. Heinemann in
Tri-Quarterly
(Spring) 184: The snazziest
hot-to-trot honey fuck to hit the mainland since the first French settlers.
1993
R. O’Connor
Buffalo Soldiers
130: This is the honeyfuck of honeyfucks. She has you in her power.
2002
D. Ayres
Other Girls
162: I got you that.… A real honey-fuck.… Instead, you fall in love with her.

honeyfuck
verb
[probably an alteration of earlier
honeyfuggle
in its sense ‘to engage in kissing and hugging’]

to engage in unusually gratifying copulation.

1954–60
H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner
Dictionary of American Slang
: Honey-fuck…v.i., v.t. To have sexual intercourse in a romantic, idyllic way; to have intercourse with a very young girl…
honey-fucking
…extremely gratifying and slow intercourse.
1980
L. Heinemann in
Harper’s
(June) 64: She’s honey-fucking the everlasting daylights out of some guy.
1986
R. B. Merkin
Zombie Jamboree
121: We were honey-fuckin’, real slow and low, takin’ our time.
1990
J. Fitzgerald
Belle Haven
176: Did you know that your former husband’s son has been honey-fucking your young niece, probably daily, am I right, Dabney?
2007
Black Lace Quickies
I. 9: She remembered teenage boyfriends honey fucking her on parents’ sofas in front of the television, for hours sometimes.

horsefuck
verb

to copulate with (someone) from behind;
DOGFUCK
.

1971
R. J. Minton
Inside: Prison American Style
60: I think you could take one of them, sit him down, and run a three-hour movie of his mother getting horse-fucked by an ape.
1972
J. Wambaugh
Blue Knight
114: Sexy little twist.… I’d like to break her open like a shotgun and horsefuck her.
1977
College student: Horsefuckin’ is the best position.
2006
T. Phillips
Blacktop Cowboys
69: You stick it in her ass or anything exciting?… Well, did she lick your balls or anything?… Did you horsefuck her?

horse-fucking
adjective

huge.

a
1968
in G. Legman
Rationale of Dirty Joke
549: Two great horse-fucking volumes.

hot
adjective

In phrase:

hot enough to fuck
, furiously angry.

1966
M. Braly
On the Yard
201: The doc was hot enough to fuck.
1971
R. J. Minton
Inside: Prison American Style
56: He’s all red in the face now! He’s hot enough to fuck!
1966–80
J. McAleer & B. Dickson
Unit Pride
358: Miller’s gonna be hot enough to fuck before this mess is over.
2003
N. McMahon
To the Bone
38: I walk into my office, and first thing, I get a call from Welles D’Anton.… Hot enough to fuck twice. Yelling that we killed a patient of his.

IHTFP
interjection

“ I h
ate
t
his
f
ucking
p
lace.” [Associated with both the U.S. military (esp. the Navy) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]

1962
P. Trese
Penguins Have Square Eyes
132 [refers to 1956]: The community bulletin board, which contained…one piece of cardboard with the inscription “IHTFP!” “What’s that mean?” I asked the Seabee. “Oh,” he said, filling in the blank, “I hate this place.”
1962
Voo Doo Magazine
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Jan.) 10:
IHTFP
—An expression of loyalty towards the Institute, meaning “Institute Has The Finest Professors.”
1969
J. Crumley
One to Count Cadence
27: All the way back to the barracks he explained why I too would soon adhere to the motto IHTFP or I Hate This Fucking Place.
1981
J. H. Webb
Sense of Honor
IV. i. 194: For those assigned to the [Naval] Academy, “IHTFP” became a slogan even before the institution formally existed.
1983
Elting, Cragg, & Deal
Dictionary of Soldier Talk
161:
IHTFP
…gained wide currency during the Vietnam War, when it was…seen…on helmet camouflage covers or cardboard placards.
1990
J. Pournelle
Falkenberg’s Legion
124: I found a trooper painting I.H.T.F.P. on the orderly room wall.
2002
S. Williams
Free as in Freedom
208: The cruiser’s vanity license plate read IHTFP, a popular MIT acronym with many meanings.

JAFO
noun

“
J
ust
A
nother
F
ucking
O
bserver.”

1983
D. O’Bannon & D. Jakoby
Blue Thunder
(film): “I found out what JAFO is.” “Just Another Fucking Observer.”
1991
Sydney Morning Herald
(Oct. 3) (Northern Herald section) 13: Among other things, he explains how he came to be a “jafo” (Antarctic slang for “just another effing observer”).
1998
Guardian
(Aug. 20) 15: The Paras are fond of JAFO (Just Another F***ing Observer).
2002
U.S. News & World Report
(Sept. 16) 42: From the first chaotic hours after the crash, Miller has firmly kept the media and meddling officials he calls “JAFOs” (“Just Another F - - - ing Observer”) from “tromping around” in the woods and among the handful of small cabins and houses at the scene.