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1. colloquialvulgarAn expression of anger, surprise, intense excitement or frustration.

   Person A: You're not going to believe this: he just did it again, despite your warning. Person B: Goddamn!

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   Person A: You're not going to believe this: he just did it again, despite your warning. Person B: God damn him!

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1. derogatorynot comparableDamned by God.
2. not comparableoffensivesometimesvulgarUsed as an intensifier.

   Where's the goddamn cartridge?

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   You were in the background; you were a goddamn extra! That's good enough!

   I know this may seem a bit out of the box, but isn't this a particularly lousy time in history for the Congress to go on vacation for six goddamn weeks.

   2019 July 26, Charles P. Pierce, “Congress Should Not Go on Vacation for Six Goddamn Weeks”, in Esquire

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1. colloquialvulgarA more emphatic form of damn.

   I don't give a goddamn.

2. alternativeAlternative form of goddam (“an English person, from French perspective”).

   The goddamns (British soldiers) are coming / To steal your children. / Awaken! Awaken! / Acadian men / To save our heritage.

   2009, Shane K. Bernard, The Cajuns: Americanization of a People, page 72

1. not comparableAlternative letter-case form of goddamn.

   You got your wars. And you got your riggers riot through the street—Gettysburg, or some Goddamn place like that.

   1996, Bill Hutton, A History of America, 2nd edition, [Toronto, Ont.]: Coach House Books, →ISBN, page 34

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   I handed him his drink and continued, ‘I think you and me ought to have a little talk.’ / It must have been the way I said it because he copped the needle and sneered, ‘I haven’t got to talk to you about fuck-all. Whatever I do is none of your Goddamn business.’ / ‘None of my Goddamn business? I’M MAKING IT MY FUCKING BUSINESS,’ I yelled as he hit the ground.

   1999, Roy Shaw with Kate Kray, “Nick-Knack-Paddy-Whack”, in Pretty Boy, London: Blake Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, pages 81–82

   ‘Second, if you guys had done your work we wouldn’t be here now with our dicks in our hands waiting for the Goddamn world to end!’

   2014, Malcolm Kohll, chapter 78, in Good Hope, London: Thames River Press, →ISBN, page 406