Today’s new entry:
fuck pad noun a dwelling or room used for esp. casual sexual encounters.
The term crash pad was found by the late 1960s. It took a few more years for someone to come up with fuck pad—or for it to get written down in some place where I could find it; the earliest example in the book is from 1975. Later quotations are from James Ellroy and Will Self, among others.
This is a sample definition of one of the many (over 120) new entries from the third edition of The F-Word. In the time leading up to publication, I will be featuring one such entry a day. In the book itself, these definitions will be supplemented with a number of quotations showing the use of the word or phrase (which is the whole point of a historical dictionary of this sort). In other words, this is only a teaser!