fucked

American  

[fuhkt] / fʌkt /

adjective

Slang: Vulgar.

1. in an extremely unpleasant and usually hopeless position or situation.

   If the cave is on fire, we're fucked.

2. hopelessly bad; terrible.

   Young people just cannot find decent jobs in this fucked economy.

3. seriously hurt or damaged.

   I’ve got a fucked knee, so I can’t move very fast.

4. 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.

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verb

Slang: Vulgar.

1. the simple past tense and past participle of fuck.

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

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

“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

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

Related Words

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• screw
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