foxtrot oscar

English

Etymology

From Foxtrot and Oscar, denoting the initials of fuck off in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Verb

foxtrot oscar (third-person singular simple present foxtrot oscars, present participle foxtrot oscaring, simple past and past participle foxtrot oscared)

1. (slang, humorous, euphemistic) To fuck off.
   • 2012, Sarah Fellows, Bob Fellows, Paramedics: From Street To Emergency Department: Case Book, McGraw-Hill Education, Open University Press, →ISBN, page 41:

     Sleeping rough after a heavy night is not a major priority to most of the local residents on any big city streets. He wasn't causing offence; if anything he was not cooperating with the crew, waking up and telling them to ‘foxtrot oscar’.