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expletive deleteds

expletive deleteds is the plural of expletive deleted.

Meaning of expletive deleted

Noun

expletive deleted (countable and uncountable, plural expletive deleteds or expletives deleted)

  1. (euphemistic, humorous) 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

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Questions about expletive deleteds

What is expletive deleteds the plural of?
Expletive deleteds is the plural of expletive deleted.

Words near expletive deleteds in the dictionary

  1. explements
  2. explete
  3. expletion
  4. expletive
  5. expletive deleted
  6. expletive deleteds
  7. expletive infixation
  8. expletively
  9. expletiveness
  10. expletives
  11. expletives deleted

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