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Definition of "goddamn" []

  • Used to express extreme displeasure, anger, or surprise. (interjection)
  • Damn. (noun)
  • To damn. (verb-transitive)
  • Variant of goddamned. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "goddamn" in a sentence
  • "Express Scripts executives started rushing to the stage and someone yelled, "He's in goddamn New York.""
  • "Why the hell couldn't the neighbours knock on my damn door and tell me to keep it down before they called the goddamn cops?"
  • "By the standards of primetime broadcast television - and I don't think this has changed since the 1990s - the word goddamn is considered profoundly offensive to many Americans."