to fuck with
- phrasal verb
- /fʌk wɪð/
- Offensive
- NICK: Look, why are you fucking with me like this?
- fuck with people
- don't fuck with
- stop fucking with
You could fuck with me if you wanted to.
- You could fuck with me if you wanted to.
- You need to be a special level of stupid to fuck with a fighter.
- No, you high key don't fuck with the American YouTube community.
- And it'd be so fun to fuck with that person right there.
- You know, would you fuck with the person if they had nothing?
- He has a lot of secrets that could potentially fuck with, you know, powerful people.
- Oh, man, I just love to fuck with him, right?
- Because if you take credit for stuff, it fucks with your head, you know?
- One of the people who were trying to fuck with me, I forget which one.
Examples
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Hey, next time you want to fuck with my daughter, don't.
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Don't fuck with my plans; they are important to me.
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There are ways to really fuck with people now here in America.
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We move him next time, fuck with his head a bit more.
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Do you know what we'll do to you if you fuck with us?
Fiction book (1997) -
"It's not nice to fuck with Mother Nature," she said.
Fiction book (1994) -
You need to be a special level of stupid to fuck with a fighter.
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- Don't fuck with me, man.
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Like don't let your family ever fuck with your vulnerable kids, OK?
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Which you can imagine how climate change starts to fuck with things like Peach crops, right?
Synonyms
To handle something in a way that causes damage or problems
To get involved in a situation and make things not work as they should
To interrupt normal activity and cause disorder
To interfere with something without permission in a harmful or dishonest way
To touch or change something in a careless and unnecessary way
To touch or change something carelessly, used in slang
To cause problems and confusion in a plan or system
Antonyms
How Interfering
- Informal
- Offensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
fuck + with
The meaning 'to interfere or tamper with' can be partially inferred from a colloquial extension of 'fuck' meaning 'to mess with, harm, or upset' combined with 'with' indicating involvement, so learners familiar with those uses may guess the sense. However, 'fuck' has highly variable senses and strong profanity/register issues, and the phrasal usage is idiomatic and not directly predictable from the common literal (sexual) sense, so full understanding without exposure is uncertain.
Etymology
Fuck with is an informal phrase made from the strong verb fuck plus the word with. Imagine someone roughly touching or changing your things without asking, so the image explains why it means 'to interfere with' or 'to mess with' someone or something.