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- noun euphemistic The word
shit , regarded as a vulgar or taboo word. - noun Any word beginning with s that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context; for example, socialism.
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Examples
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Suzan Shown Harjo -- a Native American poet, writer, lecturer, curator and policy advocate -- has argued for decades that what she calls the "s-word" originally meant "vagina," and is therefore a slur.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Wendy Brandes 2011
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Sullivan told the judge the clips and legislative documents create "an astonishing legislative record," in which lawmakers knew they had to avoid safety as a reason for voting that the plant should close when its initial 40-year license expires next March, and some expressed frustration that they couldn't use what some around the Statehouse at the time called the "s-word."
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Sullivan told the judge the clips and legislative documents create "an astonishing legislative record," in which lawmakers knew they had to avoid safety as a reason for voting that the plant should close when its initial 40-year license expires next March, and some expressed frustration that they couldn't use what some around the Statehouse at the time called the "s-word."
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Sullivan told the judge the clips and legislative documents create "an astonishing legislative record," in which lawmakers knew they had to avoid safety as a reason for voting that the plant should close when its initial 40-year license expires next March, and some expressed frustration that they couldn't use what some around the Statehouse at the time called the "s-word."
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Among them is a piece on the rise of the word we love to hate, the s-word.
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Labels: language, New York Times, s-word posted by John McGrath @ 12: 35 PM
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Not only does Cee Lo drop the f-bomb a whopping sixteen times in under four minutes, he generously tosses in the s-word and even the n-word, which undoubtedly annoys Dr. Laura because she won't be allowed to sing it on karaoke night.
Eric Williams: F***ing up the Charts: on F-Words and Music Eric Williams 2010
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Among them is a piece on the rise of the word we love to hate, the s-word.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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All three lawyers who argued and the justices never used the expletives at the heart of the dispute, but instead referred to the "f-word" or the "s-word."
Supreme court justices debate FCC position on TV swearing and nudity 2012
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Labels: language, New York Times, s-word posted by John McGrath @ 12: 35 PM
uselessness commented on the word s-word
I'm only going to say it once. For the record. The S-word is schadenfreude. Never speak it in my presence. That is all.
October 23, 2007
reesetee commented on the word s-word
You said it?? YOU?
*slumping off in existential despair*
October 23, 2007
uselessness commented on the word s-word
It was my doppelganger! I was in a trance! Under duress! The terrorists made me do it! They were going to cut off my earlobes!
October 23, 2007
trivet commented on the word s-word
I thought you were a skulker?
October 23, 2007
reesetee commented on the word s-word
A classic example by Clive James.
September 4, 2008