The F-Word (34 page)

1970
E. E. Landy
Underground Dictionary
84:
Fucked
… messed up; confused.
1971
P. Theroux in
Atlantic
(Nov.) 45/1: I used to think you Asians knew where it was at…and now I been all over Asia and, like, now I can see you’re all fucked in the head.
1975
L. Bangs in
Psychotic Reactions
(1987) 180: You’re allll [
sic
] fucked.… I can do anything I want.
1978
B. Johnson
What’s Happenin’
64: “He don’t care what he says as long as people notice him.” “He’s fucked, man.”
Ibid.
167: You guys are fucked. You don’t even know what you talkin’ about.
1981
C. Nelson
Picked Bullets Up
31: Babich looked at me through jaundiced eyes. “Kurt, you’re fucked.”
1985
B.E. Ellis
Less than Zero
100: Girls are fucked. Especially this girl.
1990
National Lampoon
(Apr.) 97: They’re fucked in the head.
1995
R. Lurie
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
77: “Are you fucked!” she screamed at Aubrey over the phone. “How could you give up that much
money to anybody without a contract?”
2003
A. Swofford
Jarhead
39: He was not a crazed, fucked-in-the-head grunt.

fucked duck
noun

Military.
a person doomed to die; “dead duck.”

1939
A. C. Bessie
Men in Battle
133: If France don’t come in now, we’re fucked ducks.
Mucho malo.… Mucho
fuckin’
malo
.
1968
J. P. Spradley
Owe Yourself a Drunk
30: I had twenty-three bucks when booked. Now they tell me I’ve got $3.30. I guess I’m a fucked duck—I’ve got twenty days hanging.
1999
A. W. Newton & W. Eldridge
Better than Good: Black Sailor’s War 1943–1945
106: If one of those guys, especially the big boatswain, took a swing at me, I would be a fucked duck before Packard could get back.
2006
P. Jennings
Nam-A-Rama
154: You saved our ass on this one. We’d a been a fucked duck if you hadn’t stayed on that horn all day.

fucked off
adjective

angry; irritated; “pissed off.” [The sense in the 1923 quotation, from a French–English dictionary of slang, is not clear.]

1923
J. Manchon
Le Slang
131: Fucked off,
foutu(e)
.
1940–45
in M. Page
Kiss Me Goodnight
(1975) 80: Because I’m fucked off, fucked off, fucked off as can be.… Fucked off lads are we.
1971
H. Dahlskog
Dictionary of Contemporary & Colloquial Usage
25:
Fucked off
…Angry; irritated; tee’d off.
1973
N.Y. college student:
Fucked off
means the same as
pissed off
.
1974
Social worker, age 26: I’ve heard a few people say, “He was really fucked off,” when they meant “pissed off.” This was in the past couple of years.
1997
Scotland on Sunday
(Apr. 6) 7: Paul is deeply fucked-off with a certain type of Welsh nationalist…attitude.
1998
SF Weekly
(Jan. 7): Hatred, revenge, and violation are…strangely heartbreaking and entirely convincing. Clearly, Reid Paley has every right to be fucked off with the world.
2003
R. Herring
Talking Cock
126: An ex-girlfriend walked in—she was a bit fucked off as we hadn’t had sex in a while and took it as a sign that I was losing interest in her.

fucked out
adjective

exhausted from excessive copulation; (
hence
) utterly exhausted; worn out.

1862
O. A. Hammer
Letter
(Dec.) in T. P. Lowry
Story Soldiers Wouldn’t Tell
(1994) iii. 37: I together with several other officers went over to Petersburg, got drunk and f—ked out. We staid two days and nights, you ought to have seen me going to bed with a gal.
1865
“Philocomus”
Love Feast
iv. 29: However tired and jaded,/Fucked out, used up, fatigued and faded,/He still would find a spur should stir/My lusts as nimbly as before.
ca
1866
Romance of Lust
443: Poor Mr. Nixon was evidently fucked out.
1879
Harlequin Prince Cherrytop
29: Changed from the gorgeous king to a buffoon,/Be weak-kneed, cunt-struck, fucked-out Pantaloon.
1884
Randiana
71: The inward and spiritual grace so necessary to please the ladies is now almost dormant in my fucked-out nature.
1934
H. Miller
Tropic of Cancer
225: It is…the dry, fucked-out aspect of things which makes this crazy civilization look like a crater.
1942
H. Miller
Roofs of Paris
259: She’s as drunk as we’re fucked out.
1945
E. Hemingway in
Selected Letters
(1981) 605: Suffer like a bastard when don’t write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards.
1950
in A. C. Inman
Diary
1480: I guess…Billy was just plain fucked out, the way he looked.
1966
J. Susann
Valley of Dolls
121: And what should an ingenue look like? A fucked-out redhead with big tits.
1969
M. Girodias
New Olympia Reader
91: By Christ, you tired old bag, you’re asleep. Fucked out.
1973
R. Roth
Sand in Wind
239: The ones he had seen didn’t have the fucked-out eyes of American prostitutes, and so many other American women.
1975
R.P. Davis
Pilot
144: They called her the “fuckedout, boozy bitch” or the “FOBB.”
1977
J. Sayles
Union Dues
144: It’s a Monday, they’re all fucked-out from the weekend.
1978
National Lampoon
(Oct.) 26: Gertrude was so fucked out that she never wanted to do it with anyone again.
1981
W. T. Hathaway
World of Hurt
162: Must’ve got so fucked out in two days, you had to come back to rest up.
1994
“Gary Indiana”
Rent Boy
25: A great-looking dude who’s so fucked out he needs a half-hour blow job just to get semi-hard.
1995
M. Amis
Information
466: And he spent the night in the master bedroom, and might even have made love to her, tenderly, tearfully, absolvingly, if he hadn’t been feeling so fucked out—and worried about getting her pregnant.
2003
B. Trapido
Frankie & Stankie
x. 241: She’s got a big untidy mouth and she walks, unselfconsciously, with a slightly knock-kneed gait. This, together with her hint of hollow thighs, has given Maddie a sexy, fucked-out look which, oddly enough, she manages to combine with the manner of the girl-next-door.

fucked over
adjective

1
. messed up, broken, ruined, victimized; =
FUCKED
, definition 4.

1969
Progressive Labor
(Aug.) 28/2: Never really trying to reach the people, building coffeehouse after coffeehouse, striking pose after pose, the struggle becomes an attempt to blow up a balloon of our own new world. The balloon is to grow and grow as more take on our groovy life styles and strike our pose and finally the whole fucked-over goddamn dumb society will shrivel beside it and die.
1978
W. Wharton
Birdy
197: You know,… this is really a fucked-over situation.
1983
S. King
Christine
257: You look like a sleepwalker. You look absolutely fucked over.
1995
G. Burn
Fullalove
(2004) vii. 175: The toe-rags; the twisters; the fucked-up; the fucked-over; the shat-upon; the shitters; the benefit-dependent; the multiply-deprived.
2000
W. Self
How Dead Live
viii. 196: But at the time I’d forgotten all the weary weepfests of Families Anonymous I’d attended—along with other fucked-up mums and fucked-over spouses—to try and get a handle on Natasha’s limitless capacity for destroying herself and others.

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

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
.
1973
College student:
Fucked over
can mean very, very drunk. Like I’ve heard guys say, “I was
fucked over
last night. Man, I wasn’t worth a dime.”
1979
College student paper: [Drunk:] queezy, fucked over, stewed, zonked.

fucked up
adjective

1
. Especially
Military
. ruined or spoiled, especially through incompetence or stupidity; botched; chaotic; in difficulty; (
broadly
) messed up. Also (especially
Military
) in fanciful similes.

1863
Record of the General Courts Martial & Courts of Inquiry of the U.S. Navy
(U.S. National Archives) CVI. (Case 3401, Nov. 18) 3: He stepped to the front of his tent…, and in a loud voice said, “What the bloody hell is wanted now, this is a fucked up Company anyhow, and always has been since the Guard came on shore.”
1939
A. C. Bessie
Men in Battle
133: The detail’s all fucked-up.
1942
in M. Morriss & R. Day
South Pacific Diary
(1996) 44: The trouble with the Army is it isn’t fucked up enough—somebody is always trying to go ’em one better.
1943
in
H. Samuelson
Love, War
200: You’ve never seen such a fucked-up mess in your life.
1954–60
H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner
Dictionary of American Slang: Fucked-up
…in trouble.
1961
G. Forbes
Goodbye to Some
173: Their balance is all fucked up too.… They can’t stay right side up.
1962
G. Ross
Last Campaign
36: I never heard of such a fucked-up mess.
Ibid.
293: The boxes are busted open, see. And the [machine gun] belts are all fucked up with snow.
1963
T. Doulis
Path for our Valor
108: Man, there ain’t
ever
been such a fucked-up operation!
1964
H. Rhodes
Chosen Few
118 [refers to
ca
1950: It don’t make sense t’get fucked up on a humble.
1972
D. Pearce
Pier Head Jump
49: They’re as fucked up as a Mongolian fire and lifeboat drill.
1972–76
C. Durden
No Bugles, No Drums
1: Right off I knew things were gonna be fucked up as a picnic in a free-fire zone.
1976
P. Atlee
Last Domino Contract
53: My company has a reputation for quality, but we’ve been fucked up here like Hogan’s goat.
1987
Kent
Phrase Book
156: As fucked up as a Chinese fire drill.
1997
U.S. student slang survey:
More fucked up than a soup sandwich in a rainstorm
…extremely unusual.
2003
“S. Pax”
Weblog Diary
(May 22) in
Baghdad Blog
178: The exchange rate is totally fucked up and the property market is getting bizarre.

2
.
a
. intoxicated by liquor or drugs.

a
1944
in A. Hopkins
Songs from Front & Rear
(1979) 179: There was old Uncle Ned, he was fair fucked up.
1965
in H.S. Thompson
Hell’s Angels
236: We’ll smoke up some weed, get all fucked up, feel no fuckin pain.
ca
1969
D. Rabe
Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel
44: Ohhh, you know how much beer I hadda drink to get fucked up on three-two beer?
1970
A. Young
Snakes
40: Man, I was fuhhhhhked-up!
1973
Oui
(Apr.) 108: God, but I’d love some cocaine.… I got so gloriously fucked up the other night.
1973
R. Roth
Sand in Wind
148: I was timing myself on every glass. I was getting fucked up but not as fucked up as I wanted to be.
1977
A. Patrick
Beyond Law
144: Either you can sit around here gettin’ fucked up and feelin’ sorry for yourself, or you can straighten up and solve this God damn case.
1978
P. Fisher & M. Rubin
Special Teachers/Special Boys
31: He was fucked up on weed.
1979
C. Hiler
Monkey Mountain
109: “Eddy!… You fucked up?”…“No, he’s not fucked up.… He’s just crazy.”
1967–80
E. Folb
Runnin’ down Some Lines
238:
Fucked up
. Excessively
high
.
1985
D. Steel
Secrets
48: Sandy’s not fucked up again, is she?
1997
G. Sykes
8 Ball Chicks
87: Janet’s always so fucked up on sherm [PCP].
1997
D. Simon & E. Burns
Corner
509 He’s taking in the boom and beat
from the half-assed stereo, with Dre and Snoop and the rest of the Death Row crew telling all them other niggas to make their shit the chronic, ’cause they gots to get fucked-up.
2002
B. L. Thomas
Threesome
146: I could tell he was fucked up. He’d been smoking blunts and doing shots of Grand Marnier all night.