fucked
Americanadjective
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in an extremely unpleasant and usually hopeless position or situation.
If the cave is on fire, we're fucked.
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hopelessly bad; terrible.
Young people just cannot find decent jobs in this fucked economy.
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seriously hurt or damaged.
I’ve got a fucked knee, so I can’t move very fast.
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unfair or biased.
He’s trying to legitimize the whole fucked system by telling people who can’t succeed that it's their own fault.
verb
Etymology
Origin of fucked
First recorded in 1920–25; fuck ( def. ) + -ed 2 ( def. ) for the adjective senses; fuck ( def. ) + -ed 1 ( def. ) for the verb sense
Example Sentences
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“Everyone around me is starting to be, like, ‘Mac, you need to buy a car, because yours is fucked and it has been broken for six months and you’re an adult.’
From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019
“I got a breadmaker, because everyone’s going to ramp up the hysteria before Leave. Everyone will be going, “Oh right, everything’s fucked, medicine and food, and you’re not going to get bread anywhere, right?
From The Guardian • Feb. 17, 2019
I don’t think America is uniquely fucked up.
From Slate • Nov. 13, 2017
Oh, and Del called out Mars Volta’s bass player for picking up a pair of wellies onsite while he just had to deal with his shoes being all fucked up.
From Time • Jul. 7, 2014
I thought for the first time how basically we might be fucked no matter what we did.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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