Meanings
present singular third person foxtrot oscars · participle present foxtrot oscaring · participle past foxtrot oscared · past foxtrot oscared
- euphemistichumorousslangTo 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
Origin
From Foxtrot and Oscar, denoting the initials of fuck off in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
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