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four-letter words

1 Cultural  

  1. Euphemism for the most common verbal obscenities.

four-letter words 2 Cultural  

  1. Obscene (see obscenity) or very vulgar words of four letters, such as piss. Most four-letter words refer to excretion or sex.

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