eff
/ɛf
/noun & verb informal
Used as a euphemism for ‘fuck’: he told plenty of journalists to eff off...
- Around 4: 45 I think, me and Julia and some other dude stumbled back to her house where I promptly passed the eff out.
- Well, ma'am, what the eff would you know about an American white girl's hair?
- I'd tell you how, except I didn't see it because I was too busy trying to chronicle Ukraine's opener for posterity and being pestered by a fly that's buzzing around my head and won't effing eff the eff off.
Phrases
eff and blind
Origin
1950s: the letter F represented as a word.