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- noun slang
Curse word or phrase.
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Examples
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Another longtime friend, Mark Conover Jr., said he and a buddy once heard Hayward spout a cussword while playing a video game.
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What he said, I agree with 100% and it doesn't bother me one bit that he said a cussword.
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Very well said, even though you didn't deign to adorn your text with the occasional cussword.
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"Liberal" became a nearly unmentionable cussword though Clinton was not liberal at all.
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I wonder what Harold Ford thinks when he sees one of the founders being lionized by some of the very people that find DLC a cussword.
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Very well said, even though you didn't deign to adorn your text with the occasional cussword.
Early Voting And Absentee Balloting Favors Obama -- In Multiple Bush States
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He had a way of saying my name and elongating the vowels in a way that made it sound like a cussword.
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He compares the cussword quotient to that of the far more foulmouthed "Private Ryan," and notes that in 1940 Hispanics made up just 1.4 percent of the U.S. population — though he doesn't note that an estimated half a million fought in the war.
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FWIW, "horse penis" is a favored cussword in Hungarian.
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With Dad, he always had someone he could be himself with, watch whatever movies he wanted to, not worrying a cussword would slip out of his mouth, because Dad just laughed at it.
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