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fuck you

/ˈfʌk‿ˌjuː/

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Australia/ˈfɐk‿ˌjʉː/

fuck you phrase: expresses discontent or contempt.

Phrase

fuck you

  1. (idiomatic, slang, vulgar) Expresses discontent or contempt.
    • So you're not gonna help me?! Well, fuck you!
    • What made you decide to mistreat him? Fuck you, that's what.
    Synonyms:
    fuck yourself, go fuck yourself, kill oneself
  2. (idiomatic, vulgar, dismissal) Go away; go to hell.
    • You’ve done enough to ruin our outing, so fuck you!
  3. (idiomatic, vulgar) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fuck, you.
    Synonyms:
    go away

Noun

fuck you (plural fuck yous)

  1. (vulgar) An insulting and humiliating action against somebody.
    • Humiliating your kid on national television for a short-term profit is one of the biggest fuck yous that a parent can ever give to their own child.
    • His entire performance, from music to personal bearing, was a giant fuck-you to everybody present (including his fellow musicians?) and I hated his guts.1976 June, Lester Bangs, King of Grim: Unraveling the Miles Perplex

fuck you meaning in Tagalog, Arabic, Malay and Indonesian

fuck you in Tagalog

fuck you
putang ina mo

fuck you in Arabic

fuck you
اللعنة عليك

fuck you in Malay

fuck you
puki mak kau, pukimak

fuck you in Indonesian

fuck you
keparat, cukimai
More languagesFewer languages
fuck you in Vietnamese
đệt mẹ mày, địt mẹ mày, đụ má mày

Examples of fuck you in a sentence

  • Murray said to me, ‘Fuck you, I will give you more the same.’ And as he said that, I grabbed the two of them.“fuck you, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  • And this was the time he heard Goldman say to Bennett, "Fuck you, you little bastard, we will get you later."1936, Violations of free speech and assembly and interference with rights of labor: hearings before a subcommittee, Seventy-fourth...
  • If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world.1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 25, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC:
  • "Fuck you" and fuck your mother and fuck the fucking horse you fucking rode in on.2001, Neil Gaiman, American Gods (American Gods #1):

Synonyms of fuck you

Forms of fuck you

Phrase
alternative nounfuck-you
alternative Internetfuk u
Noun
pluralfuck yous

Words formed from fuck you

Questions about fuck you

What does fuck you mean?
Fuck you means expresses discontent or contempt.
What is fuck you in Tagalog?
Fuck you in Tagalog is putang ina mo. See Fuck you meaning in Tagalog.
How do you use fuck you in a sentence?
Murray said to me, ‘Fuck you, I will give you more the same.’ And as he said that, I grabbed the two of them.
What part of speech is fuck you?
Fuck you can be a phrase or a noun.
How do you pronounce fuck you?
Fuck you is pronounced /ˈfʌk‿ˌjuː/.

Words near fuck you in the dictionary

  1. fuck up
  2. fuck ups
  3. fuck with
  4. fuck y'all
  5. fuck yeah
  6. fuck you
  7. fuck you lizard
  8. fuck you lizards
  9. fuck you money
  10. fuck you very much
  11. fuck you, got mine

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