expletive deleted

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词形变化

expletives deleted 复数 expletives deleted

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An all-purpose profanity.

    可数 委婉 幽默 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To have sex with.

    委婉 幽默 罕用
adj.
  1. 1.

    An all-purpose profanity.

    委婉 幽默

词源

Attested since at least the 1930s, but popularized in the U.S. after the Watergate scandal, during which transcripts of conversations were published with profanity replaced by “[EXPLETIVE DELETED]”.

来源：wiktionary