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unfuck

unfuck verb: to correct or fix (a mistake or problem).

Verb

unfuck (third-person singular simple present unfucks, present participle unfucking, simple past and past participle unfucked)

  1. (slang, transitive, vulgar) To correct or fix (a mistake or problem).
    • 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
  2. (transitive, vulgar) To notionally undo the act of copulation with (a person) or its consequences.
    • I wish I could unfuck my evil rapist ex-situationship.
    • "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

Examples of unfuck in a sentence

  • 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:
  • 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.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...
  • You can't unfuck a woman or shove the baby back in.1996, Michael Peterson, A time of War, →ISBN, page 222:
  • 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:

Forms of unfuck

third-person singular presentunfucks
present participleunfucking
past participleunfucked
pastunfucked

Origin of unfuck

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

Questions about unfuck

What does unfuck mean?
Unfuck means to correct or fix (a mistake or problem).
How do you use unfuck in a sentence?
Before long, this habit leads to…well, to the exact situation in my kitchen that took me three 20/10s to unfuck last week.
What part of speech is unfuck?
Unfuck is a verb.
What is the past tense of unfuck?
The past tense of unfuck is unfucked.

Words near unfuck in the dictionary

  1. unfrustratable
  2. unfrustrated
  3. unfry
  4. unfrying
  5. unfsckable
  6. unfuck
  7. unfuckability
  8. unfuckable
  9. unfuckableness
  10. unfuckables
  11. unfuckably

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