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fuckbar
noun

Homosexuals.
a bar in which one can engage in sexual activity, esp. one having a back room for such a purpose.

1977
M. Christofer
Shadow Box
II. 69: I go inside the bar and
he
goes inside the bar. A real “fuck bar.”…People are humping on the tables.
1981
Gay Community News
(Nov. 28) 8: After hours, there are several possibilities for the gay male on Oxford Street. There are three fuck bars.… There
are the 253 Baths, one of four baths in the city, and a porn bookshop-cum-movie-house-cum-fuckbar called Numbers.
1996
G. W. Dowsett
Practicing Desire
158: A good example is Ralph’s first visit to a backroom fuck bar.
1998
B. Rumph trans. G. Dustan
In My Room
50: I said to Stéphane I want to fuck you in a sling in a fuck bar.
2001
P. Gilovich et al.
Stranger Guide to Seattle
7: The city’s most down-and-dirty faggot fuck bar is also the only gay bar where DJs play rock.

fuck beggar
noun

an old man with whom only a female beggar is willing to copulate.

1785
F. Grose
Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
:
F—k Beggar
… An old superannuated fumbler, whom none but beggars will suffer to kiss them.

fuck book
noun

see under
FUCK
,
adjective
.

fuck box
noun

the vagina or vulva.

1976
J. Vasco
Three-Hole Girl
158: She felt it building in her fuck box as she watched Tad’s swollen purple dong head.
1998
A Swinger’s Story
, on Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.swingers (Oct. 24): Peggy reached down and grabbed her fuck box with one hand and her breast with the other.
a
2002
Letters to Penthouse XV
60: He unloaded his sperm inside her sloppy fuck-box.

fuckboy
noun

a catamite; (
hence
) a man who is victimized.

[
1954
F.I. Gwaltney
Heaven & Hell
233 [refers to WWII]: Grimes loves the army and the army’s using him for a screw-boy.]
1971
J. Blake
Joint
67 [refers to 1954]: They were known as pussyboys, galboys, fuck-boys, and all had taken girls’ names like Betty, Fifi, Dotty, etc., and were universally referred to as “she” and “her.”
1974
R. Carter
16th Round
76: A goddamned faggot, a fuckboy.
1973–76
J. Allen
Assault
124: One or
two slip through who aren’t so obvious. There’s a lot of them we call undercover fuck boys.
1980
G. G. Liddy
Will
(1996) 393: [In prison] A “fuck boy” or “punk” for homosexual gratification.
1994
in
Esquire
(Jan. 1995) 91: [In prison] Once you’ve become somebody’s fuck-boy, you stay a fuck-boy, and your new “man” will use you any way he wants.
1996
T. Parker
Violence of our Lives
i. 44: He looked me in the eye and he said “Do you mind that idea son, do you want to be somebody’s fuckboy?”
2007
C. Eshleman in
American Poetry Review
(Mar./Apr.) 26/1: The “Victorious Cupid,” a naked fuck-boy with wings, offering himself joyously to the viewer.
2008
“50 Cent” & D. R. Pledger
Diamond District
148: You ain’t nothing but that white cop’s little fuck boy! Whose side are you on, nigga?

fuckbrain
noun

=
FUCKHEAD
. Hence
fuckbrained
,
adjective
.

1970
T. Whitmore
Memphis-Nam-Sweden
35: Not at all like the lazy fuckbrain before him.
a
1981
R. Spears
Slang & Euphemism
149:
Fuck-brained
. stupid.
1986
N. Jimenez
River’s Edge
(film): You pot-head fuckbrain!
1987
J. Kellerman
Over the Edge
373: I asked you a question, fuckbrain.
1991
J. Keenan
Putting on Ritz
xx. 215: Well, go ahead, fuck-brain! See if I care!
1994
New Statesman
(Dec. 16) S1: You fuckbrained little parasite.
2000
J. Klein
Running Mate
79: If those fuck-brained college kids can march in the streets and get what they want, think of the leverage we’d have.
2006
New York Magazine
(Apr. 3) 20/1: Magazine editors gripe about the rings they have to jump through to book the hottest possible celebrities (“The PR people,” one complained to me, “are really such fucking fuckbrains”).

fuckbreak
noun

an interruption in an activity taken in order to engage in sexual intercourse.

1973
W. Rostler
Contemporary Erotic Cinema
158: There was Jim, who screwed for money all day, took a fuck break during the shooting when he was off camera, and balled this chick.
1994
Personal letter to editor
: You know the term
fuckbreak
? It’s when you take time away from work to try to get pregnant.
2001
C. Miéville
Perdido Street Station
134: Your mates
are very understanding about you just up and taking a fuck-break, aren’t they?
2008
M. Henry
Happy Hour of the Damned
234: The swing shift crew only had another ninety-seven hours until half-shift fuckbreak.

fuck-buddy
noun

Especially
Homosexuals
. a sexual partner; (
specifically
) a friend with whom one engages in casual sex.

[
1972
B. Rodgers
Queens’ Vernacular
184:
Fucking buddies
two who are not lovers cruising together for threesomes,
etc.
]
1973
A. S. Jackson
Gentleman Pimp
71: We ran into an old fuck buddy of mine.
1983
in E. White
Burning Library
150: Even the word
lover
is too rude for all the gradations of commitment and intimacy; one friend uses an ascending scale of Trick, Number, Fuck Buddy, Lover, and Husband.
1992
in
Gay Perspectives
161: Andrew has a few friends with whom he has sex, but this is no “fuck buddy” circle.
1995
“Pansy Division”
Fuck Buddy
[rock song]: Fuck buddy.… /Someday I’ll find a guy/Who means something more/But that’s not what/This relationship is for.
1995
R. Athey in
Village Voice
(N.Y.C.) (Feb. 14) 32: I try role-playing and maintaining a fuck-buddy relationship with my butch stud Cuban daddy.
1996
Guardian
(London) (Mar. 26) T6: Young lesbians…know themselves and they will announce that they are father, mother, butch, femme, fuck-buddy, boy, girl, top, bottom or any mixture that they choose.
1996
SF Weekly
(Nov. 13): Paul Ramana Das Silbet, not his wife/fuck-buddy Marilena, seems to be the real brains…behind this operation.
1997
Village Voice
(N.Y.C.) (Apr. 22) 123: Fuck buddies—friends who fuck—usually don’t date prior to becoming fuck buddies.
2000
M. Albo
Hornito
224: We are simply “fuck buddies” to each other. Casual casual casual.
2005
E. Morrison
Last Book You Read
125: He doesnae need a girlfriend. I canna go through this again with anyone. We’re fuck buddies—that’s all.

fuck button
noun

the clitoris.

[
1968
R. H. Rimmer
Proposition Thirty-One
220: Or were we both just mechanical robots on whom someone had pushed the fuck button?]
1969
“Joey V.”
Portrait of Joey: Case Study of a Super Stud
85: There were times
when I could make her come just from the feel of my lips tugging on that little fuck-button of hers.
1994
Strawberry Blonde ff teen
on Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.stories (Apr. 25): My finger was grinding down against her fuck button and the heat was rising down between her legs as her slot began to moisten.
2007
R. L. Duncan
Lost in Venice
267: “I just touched your little fuck button.” “Oh Johnny it felt so good.”

fucked
adjective

1
. Chiefly
British
. completely exhausted.

1949
E. Partridge
Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English
(ed. 3) (Addenda) 1054/2:
F*cked,
adj. Extremely weary; (utterly) exhausted; late C. 19-20.
1977
H. Garner
Monkey Grip
216: I only want to crash, right now. I’m absolutely fucked.
1987
G. Matthews
Little Red Rooster
xiii. 201: It’s…time for sleep.… I’m totally fucked.
1996
C. J. Stone
Fierce Dancing
ix. 132: We’ve hitched from the West Country. We’ve just walked about twenty miles and we’re fucked. Can you come and pick us up?
2005
Independent on Sunday
(Nexis) (Aug. 28), We were all completely fucked, we’d been out in Liverpool the night before.

2
. exceedingly bad or offensive; rotten; awful; ruined;
FUCKED UP
,
adjective
, definition 1; (also) doomed, in a difficult situation.

1949
W. S. Graham
Letter
(Mar. 7) in
Nightfisherman
(1999) 87: My nose fucked, my jersey steeping in its navyblue water, the fire a ruin of paling embers.
1960
P. Larkin
Letter
(Aug. 8) in A. Thwaite
Selected Letters
(1992) 318: On getting back to Hessle he found the shutter had been set at Time exposure which means that the whole lot were fucked.
1971
L. Bangs in
Psychotic Reactions
(1987) 86: Some cat… made a really fucked album.
1975
S.P. Smith
American Boys
58: Morgan [was] yelling at the top of his lungs about how fucked everything was while Padgett…egged him on.
1976
A. Schroeder
Shaking It Rough
121: I mean, like, the last stanza’s completely fucked, man!
1978
A. Maupin
Tales of the City
92: Your karma is
really
fucked!
1980
P. Conroy
Lords of Discipline
311: We’re living in fucked times.
1985
J. Dillinger
Adrenaline
115: “Want to know something fucked?”… “How fucked?” “We’re outa gas.”
1985
O’Bannon
Return of Living Dead
(film): first, I got a really fucked headache; then my stomach started cramping up.
1990
P. Munro
Slang U.
85:
Fucked
… unfair.
1991
J. Barth
Last
Voyage of Somebody the Sailor
144: The page whispered. “We’re fucked.”
1986–91
B. Hamper
Rivethead
161: Squeezing rivets is fucked!
1997
Nunez
Ulee’s Gold
(film): Everyone’s life you’ve ever touched is fucked. You know that, Ulee?
2007
Poets & Writers
(Mar./Apr.) 48: When I found out I didn’t get the job, I thought, “I am so fucked!” I had no clue what I was going to do.

3
. intoxicated by alcohol or drugs; =
FUCKED UP
, definition 2a.

1970
E. E. Landy
Underground Dictionary
84:
Fucked
…under the influence of a drug.
1972
D. E. Smith & G. R. Gay
Don’t Try It
202:
Fucked up
. High on heroin (sometimes other drugs): “He was so fucked up he couldn’t even drive a car.”…Also
fucked around, fucked over,
and just plain
fucked
.
a
1973
in D. W. Maurer
Language of the Underworld
301:
Fucked
or
fucked up
. Stoned.
1976
L. Bangs in
Psychotic Reactions
(1987) 195: When you first arise you’re probably so fucked (i.e. still drunk) that it doesn’t even really hurt yet.
1990
P. Munro
Slang U.
85:
Fucked
…drunk…under the influence of drugs.
2000
G. Marinovich & J. Silva
Bang-Bang Club
(2001) xii. 191: My heart sank, thinking Kev must be fucked on buttons, and I mentally ran through a list of possible excuses.
2005
N. Barham
Dis/Connected
137: At Homelands I got fucked and I came up and it was just fantastic and Sam was like, “I’ll just have a tiny bit,” and I was like, yes, sure; a tiny bit of these pills will still knock your head off.

4
. lacking in sanity or good sense; crazy. Also
fucked in the head
.

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