Brainfuck
name, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Something that destabilizes, confuses, or manipulates a person's mind. vulgar
"What a brainfuck. Little Roger, my brother, wanted to have a talk about sex."
- 1 To destabilize, confuse, or manipulate a person's mind. vulgar
""I don't want to hear that. Don't try and brainfuck me by turning this around and making it some sort of redemption thing. […]"
- 1 A minimalist esoteric programming language, created for amusement, in which every basic machine instruction is represented by a single character.
"Some eccentric languages are structurally just as simple, but intentionally made awfully hard to understand — like the notorious languages Brainfuck […] or Malbolge."
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of Brainfuck. alt-of
Example
More examples"Some eccentric languages are structurally just as simple, but intentionally made awfully hard to understand — like the notorious languages Brainfuck […] or Malbolge."
Etymology
From brain + fuck, implying that it is confusing to use.
From brain + fuck (“to play with; to tinker”).
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.