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foxtrot oscar

foxtrot oscar verb: to fuck off.

Verb

foxtrot oscar (third-person singular simple present foxtrot oscars, present participle foxtrot oscaring, simple past and past participle foxtrot oscared)

  1. (euphemistic, humorous, slang) To fuck off.
    • Sleeping rough after a heavy night is not a major priority to most of the local residents on any big city streets. He wasn't causing offence; if anything he was not cooperating with the crew, waking up and telling them to ‘foxtrot oscar’.2012, Sarah Fellows, Bob Fellows, Paramedics: From Street To Emergency Department: Case Book, McGraw-Hill Education, Open University Press, →ISBN, page 41

Forms of foxtrot oscar

third-person singular presentfoxtrot oscars
present participlefoxtrot oscaring
past participlefoxtrot oscared
pastfoxtrot oscared

Origin of foxtrot oscar

From Foxtrot and Oscar, denoting the initials of fuck off in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Questions about foxtrot oscar

What does foxtrot oscar mean?
Foxtrot oscar means to fuck off.
What part of speech is foxtrot oscar?
Foxtrot oscar is a verb.
What is the past tense of foxtrot oscar?
The past tense of foxtrot oscar is foxtrot oscared.

Words near foxtrot oscar in the dictionary

  1. Foxtrap
  2. foxtress
  3. foxtresses
  4. foxtrot
  5. foxtrot delta tango
  6. foxtrot oscar
  7. foxtrot oscared
  8. foxtrot oscaring
  9. foxtrot oscars
  10. foxtrots
  11. foxtrotted

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