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expletive deleted en · ADJ

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Attested since at least the 1930s, but popularized in the U.S. after the Watergate scandal, during which transcripts of conversations were published with profanity replaced by “[EXPLETIVE DELETED]”.

Meanings

  1. (euphemistic, humorous, not-comparable) An all-purpose profanity.
    • You are paid a lot of money; kindly do some expletive-deleted work. 2003, Toby Miller, “What It Is and What It Isn’t: Cultural Studies Meets Graduate Student Labor”, in Austin Sarat, Jonathan Simon, editors, Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 90:

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expletive deleted en · NOUN

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Etymology

Attested since at least the 1930s, but popularized in the U.S. after the Watergate scandal, during which transcripts of conversations were published with profanity replaced by “[EXPLETIVE DELETED]”.

Meanings

  1. (countable, euphemistic, humorous, uncountable) An all-purpose profanity.
    • His most graphic threat was should I ever commit such a grave violation of his privacy, he would "rip your (string of expletives deleted) head off and (expletives deleted meaning "to defecate") down your (string of expletives deleted) neck." 2000, John W. Myers, The Crossland Shootout, Adventures of a Photojournalists, page 64:
    • Because you sold him out just to have a martyr, you expletive deleted. 2013, J. David Markham, Mike Resnick, History Revisited: The Great Battles, Eminent Historians Take on the Great Works of Alternative History, . BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 41:

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wikipedia: Watergate scandal

expletive deleted en · VERB

Pronunciation

Etymology

Attested since at least the 1930s, but popularized in the U.S. after the Watergate scandal, during which transcripts of conversations were published with profanity replaced by “[EXPLETIVE DELETED]”.

Meanings

  1. (euphemistic, humorous, rare) To have sex with.
    • I’d like to expletive deleted you. Oh, expletive, that’s what I’d like to do. 1993, Steve Allen, Make ’em laugh, Prometheus Books, page 293:

Synonyms

get into someone's pants · discuss Uganda · copulate with · someone's etchings

wikipedia: Watergate scandal