See also: drop the F-bomb

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drop the f-bomb (third-person singular simple present drops the f-bomb, present participle dropping the f-bomb, simple past and past participle dropped the f-bomb)

  1. (idiomatic, euphemistic) To utter the word fuck, especially in an inappropriate manner or setting.
    • 1999 June 16, Lisa Olsen, “Good Guys Wear Black”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 3 Jan. 2009:
      I swear to God, I've never heard David (Robinson) or Avery (Johnson) swear. I sometimes sit down and think, "Gosh, I've never heard them drop the F-bomb."
    • 2003 December 19, “For The Record”, in MTV.com:
      It's fitting that Clay Aiken, a man who rarely, if ever, drops the f-bomb, topped the list of the Ten Best-Mannered People of 2003.
    • 2006 June 25, Joel Achenbach, “Dropping the F-bomb”, in The Washington Post, page B01:
      From hip-hop artists to bloggers to the vice president of the United States, everyone's dropping the F-bomb.
  2. (idiomatic, euphemistic) To say the word faggot.