fuckoff

[ fuhk-awf, -of ]

/ ˈfʌkˌɔf, -ˌɒf /

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noun Slang: Vulgar.

a person who shirks responsibility or wastes time; malingerer; goldbrick.

OTHER WORDS FOR fuckoff

shirker, dodger; idler, layabout, loafer, slacker.

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Origin of fuckoff

First recorded in 1940–45; noun use of verb phrase fuck off

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2022

How to use fuckoff in a sentence

Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
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A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
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The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
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The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.
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Aaron Paul may play a young Han Solo in the first Star Wars spin-off.
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A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
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Jean was to be an architect—God knows why—but Aristide settled it, definitely, off-hand.
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In favorable parts of the trail he must do better than that, to off-set losses of time where the going was most difficult.
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There was something about the man that Matt liked, in spite of the deceit he had practised at the start-off of their acquaintance.
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She did not take the broad, beaten road which led to the far-off plantation of Valmonde.
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British Dictionary definitions for fuckoff

fuck off

/ offensive, taboo, slang /

interjection

a forceful expression of dismissal or contempt

verb (adverb)

(intr) to go away

(tr) to irritate or annoy (a person)

adjective

(prenominal) very large or impressivea huge fuck-off cigar

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Idioms and Phrases with fuckoff

fuck off

Go away, get out of here, as in Fuck off or I'll call the police. This idiom is used only as a command. [Vulgar slang; 1920s]

Spend time idly, loaf or shirk one's duty. For example, After twelve years of school some kids feel they're entitled to fuck off, or You're always fucking off instead of working. [Vulgar slang; 1940s]

be fucked off. To be furious, as in They didn't show up, and I am really fucked off. [Vulgar slang; c. 1940] Also see piss off.