abso-fucking-lutely

See also: absofuckinglutely

English

Alternative forms

• abso-fuckin'-lutely
• abso-fuckin-lutely

Etymology

A tmesis, absolutely +‎ -fucking-

Pronunciation

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Adverb

abso-fucking-lutely (comparative more abso-fucking-lutely, superlative most abso-fucking-lutely)

1. (slang, vulgar) Alternative spelling of absofuckinglutely
   • 1997, Phil Strongman, Cocaine: A Novel of the Cocaine Generation, Abacus, page 73:

     Poverty corrupts and absolute poverty corrupts absolutely. Abso-fucking-lutely.

   • 1998, Rebecca Brown, The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary, City Lights Books, page 66:

     Then, in what sounded too embarrassingly familiar, she squealed in her best, worst, most screechingly awful human voice, Down! Down! Down! while she stumbled around as if she was completely, abso-fucking-lutely smashed.

Interjection

abso-fucking-lutely

1. (slang, vulgar) Alternative spelling of absofuckinglutely
   • 2008, Bill Carter, Red Summer: The Danger, Madness, and Exaltation of Salmon Fishing in a Remote Alaskan Village, Scribner, page 94:

     Except one local who said, "A hundred fifty?" "Abso-fucking-lutely. I need a fucking fix. I’ll smoke it, shoot it, snort it. Shit, I’ll put it up my ass if it gets me high."

   • 2013, Stephen Francis Montagna, The Scorpion's Daughter: Designer Biological Weapon of Mass Destruction, Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co, page 215:

     Abso fucking lutely^[sic] sir, and make no mistakes about my threat in the least either, Colonel Levy!