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expletives deleted

expletives deleted 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 expletives deleted

What is expletives deleted the plural of?
Expletives deleted is the plural of expletive deleted.

Words near expletives deleted in the dictionary

  1. expletive deleteds
  2. expletive infixation
  3. expletively
  4. expletiveness
  5. expletives
  6. expletives deleted
  7. expletivity
  8. expletory
  9. explicabilities
  10. explicability
  11. explicable

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