M-word

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The word motherfucker, regarded as a vulgar word. euphemistic
  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of m-word. alt-of

    "Given all this, you may be puzzled to hear me call myself a Marxist. […] This is not something that I often volunteer to talk about in “polite society” because the very mention of the M-word switches audiences off."

  3. 3
    Any word beginning with m that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context, like midget or murder.

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"Given all this, you may be puzzled to hear me call myself a Marxist. […] This is not something that I often volunteer to talk about in “polite society” because the very mention of the M-word switches audiences off."

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