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F2F
face to face; also face time; compare carbon community , meatspace ,

fascist
person dressed and otherwise 'in character' for a job interview [MIT]

fair one
a planned fight that is preceded by a verbal argument: That's enough talk, man! We can have a fair one in the parking lot!

fart sack
[mil] a mattress cover, usually made of cotton, used in military barracks; when I was in basic training in 1984, the name was said to come from the way the cover either trapped your farts inside, or kept your farts out of the mattress, which was, after all, going to be used by lots of other trainees after you; compare
poopie suit

feces, euphemisms for
brownie; cigar; crap(pola); doo-doo; dook(ie); doots; dump; growler; load; loaf; log; shit; squat; torpedo; two-flusher

feck
-n- a clump of cheesy pus; anything resembling this

felching, feltching
In high school and college [1979-84], I heard that this was a slang term for cunnilingus. In recent discussions [1996] and in alt.folklore.urban, this word has been used to describe 'gerbiling' or 'gerbil stuffing,' the fictitious homosexual practice of pushing a live gerbil or other small animal into one's anus for sexual pleasure, and alternately to describe the act of sucking one's ejaculate from the anus of one's homosexual lover; I have heard these last two definitions from heterosexuals only

fellatio, euphemisms for
bob on the knob; eat ~, bite ~, lick me; go down (also refers to
cunnilingus) ; smoke the pole; teabag
Note: practically all the euphemisms for fellatio are considered at least mildly offensive by most people, and often all references to sexual activity are considered very offensive and should not be uttered in mixed company; see sex

fewmet
dragon feces [FIDO Science Fiction conference, 1995]

FIDO
1: the generic name for a dog, fm Latin fidus, faithful
2: a computer chat network; ... [FIDO originator] Jennings assembled his personal computer out of a mongrel assortments of parts. The software to allow his computer, Fido, to communicate via phone with a pal's computer across the country - forming a computer network - was thus christened "Fidonet", as was the network itself. [Chris Baugh, FIDO Words conference, May 96]

FIGMO
[mil] Fuck It, Got My Orders (politely rendered: Finally, I Got My Orders)

finer than a frog's hair
excellent

First Nations
alternative name for American Indians, Native Americans [FIDO Words conference, Nov 1995]

First Shirt
[military] a first sergeant in the US Air Force

fish
to fool, to play a joke on; I fished him with that trick. [USAF, RAF Chicksands, 1980-90; probably from reel in a fish]

FLAK
FLieger Abwehr Kanone; like radar, scuba, and laser, has become a word in its own right in German, and was introduced as a word into English

flake
-n- a person acting crazy

flatulation, euphemisms for
beep your horn; blast the chair; blow mud, ~ the big brown horn; break wind; break the buddha; bust ass; cut the cheese, ~ a stinker; drop a bomb; fart; float an air biscuit; honk; let a beefer, ~ each little bean be heard; pass gass, ~ wind; poot; puff the magic dragon; rebuild the ozone layer one poof at a time; shoot the cannon; singe the carpet; toot your own horn; trumpet

flatulence, euphemisms for
anal salute; bottom blast; burp; butt burp; funky rollers; hummerhoids; mating call of the barking spider; jet propulsion; one-gun salute; rectal honk, ~ shout; ripple fart

flip a bitch
to make a U-turn, heard in the Denver metro area (1990); see
flip a shittie, whip a shittie

flip a shittie
to make a U-turn; see
flip a bitch, whip a shittie

fluff girl
her job is to get men ready for sexual intercourse; the Marines I heard this from [1997] didn't say exactly how it was done, but I inferred no intercourse was involved

fly
cool, stylish, very attractive [1995, Knight-Ridder News Service]

F.N.G.
[military] Fucking New Guy; see jeep, newbie

forsoothly
[1995] describes a work of fiction that uses a great deal of badly-rendered Middle- or Old-English; I didn't like that book because it was too forsoothly. [John George, FIDO Science Fiction echo]

404
someone who is clueless; from the World Wide Web error message 404 NOT FOUND , meaning the requested document couldn't be located; Don't bother asking him, he's 404. [from e-mail, Aug 97]

freak
-n- an extremely beautiful, good-looking female, usually a member of the speaker's peer group

french shave
?a badly executed shave? I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for french shaves and loose buttons... [R.Chandler]

fresh
admirable, excellent; heard used amongst elementary-aged school children in the suburban Aurora, Colorado area (1992-96); see excellent

frisbetyrian
when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and stays there [1995, FIDO Words echo]

front
to talk nonsense; He doesn't know what he's talking about; he's fronting! [Dave Coble]

FUBAR
Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition
see SNAFU

FUBB
Fouled Up Beyond Belief
see SNAFU

fuck
1: to copulate
2: to ruin, or to do poorly; He really fucked that up. compare with
hose, screw
3: with over, to deal with unfairly; My boss fucked me over. compare with hose, screw
4: like really, used as an intensifier; That's a fucking waste of time.

      The origin for this word seems fairly straight forward (Dutch: fokken, to breed cattle, from the Middle Dutch: push, thrust, copulate; akin to Swiss dialectic fock: penis). A number of persistant popular etimologies claim that it derives from an abbreviation, although there are several, all apparently unsubstantiated. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, supposedly taken from police blotters, seems to be the most popular, even though no law against fornication was worded this way. Fornication Under Consent of King also persists.

There's also this popular folk etymology that comes all the way from the Battle of Agincourt and repeated ad nauseum over the internet. The French, who were overwhelmingly favored to win the battle, threatened to cut a certain body part off of all captured English soldiers so that they could never fight again. The English won in a major upset and waved the body part in question at the French in defiance. The body part which the French proposed to cut off of the English was the middle finger, without which it is supposedly impossible to draw an English longbow. As the story goes, the longbow is said to be made of the native English yew tree, so the act of drawing the longbow was apparently known as plucking yew. Naturally, when the victorious English waved their middle fingers at the defeated French, they said, "PLUCK YEW!"

One of the most clever versions included this explanation: Over the years some 'folk etymologies' have grown up around this symbolic gesture. Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say (like "pleasant mother pheasant plucker," which is who you had to go to for the feathers used on the arrows), the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has gradually changed to a labiodental fricative 'f', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute are mistakenly thought to have something to do with an intimate encounter. It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows that the symbolic gesture is known as giving the bird.

fuckpasting
-vi- unproductive or hopelessly fouled-up activity: This is about a bunch of worthless fuckpasting. [heard in 1992 while stationed at Teufelsberg in Berlin, Germany]

full-goose bozo
-adj- also bull-goose bozo; not exactly sure what this means, though it seems to mean something like 'crazy, out of his mind'; Try to stay a little full-goose bozo. [Robin Williams, Reality: What A Concept]

FUMTU
Fucked Up More Than Usual
see SNAFU

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