Today’s new entry:
IHTFP interjection “I hate this fucking place.” [Associated with both the U.S. military (esp. the Navy) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.]
Inadvertently left out of earlier editions, despite the fact that I had the evidence for it—indeed, this dates back to the early 1960s (and even then, in reference to still earlier times). At MIT, it is often given a variety of interpretations, including “Institute Has The Finest Professors”.
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!