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drop the f-bomb en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (euphemistic, idiomatic) To utter the word fuck, especially in an inappropriate manner or setting.
    • From hip-hop artists to bloggers to the vice president of the United States, everyone's dropping the F-bomb. 2006 June 25, Joel Achenbach, “Dropping the F-bomb”, in The Washington Post, page B01:
    • I swear to God, I've never heard David (Robinson) or Avery (Johnson) swear. I sometimes sit down and think, "Gosh, I've never heard them drop the F-bomb." 1999 June 16, Lisa Olsen, “Good Guys Wear Black”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 03 Jan 2009:
    • It's fitting that Clay Aiken, a man who rarely, if ever, drops the f-bomb, topped the list of the Ten Best-Mannered People of 2003. 2003 December 19, “For The Record”, in MTV.com:
  2. (euphemistic, idiomatic) To say the word faggot.

Forms

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dropped the f-bomb Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dropped the f-bomb Tense=Past lexicographic
dropping the f-bomb Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
drops the f-bomb Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
drop the F-bomb alternative lexicographic