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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I’ll come off stage and people will be cheering “one more tune”, and all I’ll be able to think about is 15 minutes into the set I fucked up a mix.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2019
I have been getting more into George Carlin lately, and he has this one bit about how the planet will be fine but we’re fucked.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2019
Pretending like you have a grand plan when actually you are so totally fucked because you can’t figure out where that black 2 is supposed to go is what this game is all about.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2018
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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