fuck you

alternative noun fuck-you · alternative Internet fuk u

1. idiomaticslangvulgarExpresses discontent or contempt.

   So you're not gonna help me?! Well, fuck you!

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   What made you decide to mistreat him? Fuck you, that's what.

   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 Congress, page 21061

   If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "Fuck you" signs in the world. It's impossible.

   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," said Czernobog. "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: fuck yourself, go fuck yourself, kill oneself

2. idiomaticvulgardismissalGo away; go to hell.

   You’ve done enough to ruin our outing, so fuck you!

3. idiomaticvulgarUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fuck, you.

   Synonyms: go away

plural fuck yous · alternative noun fuck-you · alternative Internet fuk u

1. vulgarAn 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.

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   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 28, Lester Bangs, King of Grim: Unraveling the Miles Perplex

   I think there is a bit of a desire to be active in funding these alternatives as a fuck you to both Wall Street and Elon Musk.

   2023 May 6, Hannah Murphy, quoting Evan Henshaw-Plath, “Twitter’s co-founder moves against Musk”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9