frick

¹

[frik]

noun

Informal.

fricked, fricking 

1. a euphemism for the word fuck.

Frick

²

[frik]

noun

1. Henry Clay, 1849–1919, U.S. industrialist, art patron, and philanthropist.

Word History and Origins

Origin of frick¹

First recorded in 1975–80; euphemism perhaps modeled on frig ¹ ( def. ); fricking ( def. )

Example Sentences

Over the last year, buzzy restaurants like Chez Fifi, Lucia Pizza and Westmoreland, the cafe inside the newly renovated Frick Collection, have all landed on the Upper East Side.

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Cincinnati fans loved their team by any name, casting a deluge of last-minute votes two years in a row that eventually required intervention from MLB commissioner Ford Frick and caused MLB to eliminate fan voting for more than a decade.

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Frick stood by the voting in ’56 despite complaints that five Redlegs were voted in, saying, “Everybody had a chance to vote, so there should be no squawks.”

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Frick swiftly stepped in and replaced three Redlegs with future Hall of Famers Stan Musial, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron.

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In 1930, the Nazi Party chief in Thuringia and state Minister of Education and the Interior, Wilhelm Frick, issued orders to remove 70 Expressionist paintings from the Schloss Weimar museum, fire the director of another museum for displaying modern art in its exhibitions, and ban all pacifist or antiwar books and films, including Erich Maria Remarque’s legendary World War I novel “All Quiet on the Western Front.”

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