Definitions

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  • verb slang, vulgar To correct or fix a mistake or problem.
  • verb vulgar To undo the act of copulation or its consequences.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ fuck. For the sense of making a mistake, see fuck up.

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Examples

  • Within hours of its release somebody with nothing else to do slammed together a program, archly called "unfuck," that intercepted the decrypted data and stripped away the restrictions.

    The Heavenly Jukebox 2000

  • Within hours of its release somebody with nothing else to do slammed together a program, archly called "unfuck," that intercepted the decrypted data and stripped away the restrictions.

    The Heavenly Jukebox 2000

  • But that was then … We need to do a few things in the area to try to unfuck it and then limit our presence to the form of aid.

    Take Warning | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • Referring to sexual abuse, a character in Chuck Pahliunik's Haunted claims that it is impossible to "unfuck a child."

    Matthew S. Rindge, Ph.D.: Molestation, Matthew 18, and Magnolia Ph.D. Matthew S. Rindge 2010

  • Any party who gets in power will have to slowly unfuck it as, in REALITY the social, financial and political structure of a nation is too complex to just click your fingers like bloody Mary Poppins and have everything fall into place.

    Party Political Broadcast Henry North London 2009

  • Someone in hollywood need to unfuck FOX, they casted the perfect wolverine and put the worst B list actors around him, with the exception being Ian Mckellan.

    First Look: Taylor Kitsch as Gambit in X-Men Origins: Wolverine! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • If, as a new user, I have to go through this in order to unfuck the default package management, your distro has serious problems.

    stonetable.org » 2006 » October 2006

  • If, as a new user, I have to go through this in order to unfuck the default package management, your distro has serious problems.

    stonetable.org » SUSE – What the fuck. 2006

  • SAM: If the goals are strictly political (ie, unfuck the Iraqi government), then the amount of resources dedicated to that effort are woefully inadequate

    Kelly Nuxoll: The Senators Grill Petraeus; My Brother Messages Me From Iraq 2008

  • No, indeed “the bell cannot be unrung” and you, my drooling little righttard, cannot unfuck your hilarious fuck-up.

    Archive 2008-01-01 CC 2008

Comments

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  • to repair, fix

    June 30, 2009

  • Isn't this more like unfuckup?

    June 30, 2009

  • to un-fuck-up ? that's a fucked up word :)

    June 30, 2009

  • ... and "unfuck" isn't?

    July 1, 2009

  • You can not unfuck. Just as you can't unring a bell. You can try to make amends. That's about the best you can do.

    July 1, 2009

  • i love this word

    and I can barely wait for the opp to say, "I have to unfuck this."

    I agree with chained_bear that it really should be unfuckup, but unfuck just rolls off the tongue better.

    July 1, 2009

  • Maybe defuck is better. I think that's the technical term for what the Geek Squad guy did to our new tv -- after it got all fucked up. He defucked it.

    July 1, 2009

  • It's true, dc, you can't unfuck. You can unfuckup something, however, for which defuck seems to work very well. *ponders*

    July 1, 2009

  • What if you're a Time Lord? I bet the Doctor can unfuck.

    July 1, 2009

  • unfucking is the process by which friends of the opposite sex mutually endeavor to platonize their relations after sleeping with each other under questionable circumstances for a period of time no longer than one month.

    July 2, 2009

  • then, is unborn children the consequences of unfucking? like being pregnant for ever if you get unfucked?

    July 2, 2009

  • I'm not sure but is the antithesis of fuck me stupid, unfuck me smart?

    July 2, 2009

  • No, auntdracula, I think that's "What the fuck?"

    July 2, 2009

  • See, these are the kind of practical difficulties people just don't think through when they try to mess with the space-time continuum. The most likely destination for any babies whisked out of existence as a consequence of unfucking is the same place where all the babies who used to be in limbo are now sequestered.

    I hope these babies understand string theory. Otherwise they are going to get lost.

    July 2, 2009

  • I wonder if Steven Hawkings can explain, "Systems normal all unfucked up".

    July 2, 2009

  • The antithesis of fuck me stupid, EWarrior, is surely fuck you stupid.

    July 2, 2009

  • ...and they say, 'wordies are friendly'. Thanks for the insight to fuck off

    July 2, 2009

  • Uhh... Wordies are friendly.

    ?! What the fuck?

    Sionnach: Will the Vatican, do you think, have the coordinates? *curious*

    July 2, 2009

  • Correction: wordies are fucking friendly.

    July 2, 2009

  • Excuse the fuck out of me! If I can't unfuck this shit, should I just fuck it?

    July 3, 2009

  • You can't -- but you might be able to defuck it. Hello?

    July 3, 2009

  • Well then, as strev says, 'I have to defuck this' Let me know if this worked dontcry.

    July 3, 2009

  • Ewarrior– what the unfuck! (WTUF) I never said defuck or what defuck (common to the north of us) You got fucked up in this list of comments so I thought it would be best to unfuck this comment and point out that dontcry contributed the word defuck

    please note ;)

    July 3, 2009

  • Ever hear the George Carlin bit where he replaces the word kill with the word fuck? It's a fuckin' hoot!

    *can't type this mornin'*

    Okay, I'm all fucked out.

    July 3, 2009

  • ooh what have I started here :) thanks for all the hilarious comments... from unfuck to time lords, string theory, the vatican and george carlin, all in 3 days.

    July 3, 2009

  • "You had best un-fuck yourself or I will unscrew your head and shit down your neck" Quote from the movie "Full Metal Jacket"

    link

    July 4, 2009

  • Ah yes, Full Metal Jacket. That's where I first heard this word. *goes all misty-eyed*

    Sionnach, that space where the babies go is full of unmatched socks lost in the laundry. I'm sure they can make a comfortable bed out of them.

    July 9, 2009

  • Let's stir it up again with some dilithium. Would the antimetathesis of 'fuck me stupid' be 'unfuck me smart'? The negative energy of this wormhole has put me in warp drive. So long and thanks for all the fish. Beware chameleoneology! haha tata

    July 10, 2009

  • I dropped some dilithium in the '70s. Wild.

    July 10, 2009

  • Unfuck BRD on the Freedom Not Fear march yesterday (September 12, 2009).

    September 13, 2009