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unfuck en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From un- + fuck, originally US military slang. See also fuck up.

Meanings

1. (slang, transitive, vulgar) To correct or fix (a mistake or problem).
   • Before long, this habit leads to…well, to the exact situation in my kitchen that took me three 20/10s to unfuck last week. 2017 January 24, Beth Skwarecki, “Unf*ck Your Habitat Got Me to Finally Start Cleaning My House”, in Lifehacker:
   • Now get up! Get on your feet! You had best unfuck yourself or I will unscrew your head and shit down your neck! 1987, Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford, Full Metal Jacket, spoken by Hartman (R. Lee Ermey):
   • An unemployed, starving artist couldn't turn her back on that kind of money. Not to mention that this could be a chance to unfuck my life. 2007, Anne Frasier, Garden of Darkness, Onyx, →ISBN, page 19:
   • All sound ideas, no question, except Unfuck the World was so popular that once people had seen that sticker, they didn’t want the other three. They just wanted to grab the world and unfuck it. 2023 June 26, Zoe Williams, “Perv-O-Shine and sleep vaping: 23 things I learned about the world – and myself – at Glastonbury 2023”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
2. (in the negative, transitive, vulgar) To notionally undo the act of copulation with (a person) or its consequences.
   • Kate's voice was so quiet, Julian saw Leslie lean forward to hear her. “Do you propose undoing screwing my boyfriend, Leslie? Are you going to unfuck him?” 2011, Erica Orloff, chapter 6, in Freudian Slip, →ISBN:
   • "I won't do it again. I won't! You'll see. I have to prove that. I have to prove it to myself." "You can't unfuck him Donna." 1982, Marge Piercy, Braided Lives, →ISBN, page 269:
   • I wish I could unfuck my evil rapist ex-situationship.
   • There is just no way to go back and unfuck the maid or whatever it was that got him in trouble in the first place. 2002, Larry Owen, The Female Lieutenant, →ISBN, page 191:
   • Recognizing the signs that she was approaching orgasm, he upped the pace […] But too late now to unfuck her. 2011, Kate Willoughby, Just Winging It, →ISBN, page 63:
   • You can't unfuck a woman or shove the baby back in. 1996, Michael Peterson, A time of War, →ISBN, page 222:

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