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1. countableeuphemistichumorousuncountableAn all-purpose profanity.

   Because you sold him out just to have a martyr, you expletive deleted.

   2013, J. David Markham, Mike Resnick, History Revisited: The Great Battles, Eminent Historians Take on the Great Works of Alternative History, . BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 41

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   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

1. euphemistichumorousnot comparableAn all-purpose profanity.

   You are paid a lot of money; kindly do some expletive-deleted work.

   2003, Toby Miller, “What It Is and What It Isn’t: Cultural Studies Meets Graduate Student Labor”, in Austin Sarat, Jonathan Simon, editors, Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 90

1. euphemistichumorousrareTo have sex with.

   I’d like to expletive deleted you. Oh, expletive, that’s what I’d like to do.

   1993, Steve Allen, Make ’em laugh, Prometheus Books, page 293

   Synonyms: discuss Uganda, get into someone's pants, someone's etchings, copulate with