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Fugazi - What does it mean?

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fugazi

English

Adjective

  • Fucked up; broken, damaged beyond repair.
  • * 1984 , Marc Olden, Giri , page 74:
  • The two of them were getting bombed on bami-bam, beer, and joints laced with opium. That made answers to questions a long time in coming. "Hey, man, what the fuck can I tell you," said Robbie finally. "All fugazi over here. All fucked up. Number ten. The worst. Don't matter what goes down in this asshole country, know what I mean? Hey, papa-san, don't believe everything you hear, okay?"
  • * 1986 , Mark Baker, Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought , page 32:
  • We didn't know anything was fugazi * until we got to a certain place in the South China Sea. A loudspeaker came over the air, "This is your captain speaking. Be advised that your destination is Da Nang, Republic of Vietnam."
  • * 2008 , Audrey Shafer, The Mailbox , page 67:
  • First time I met her. we were stuck on recon. far from the AO. deep in Indian country. the ops completely fugazi . the horn dead. and my BTO sick as skunkrot. She comes creeping by our ditch.
  • (slang) Fake.
  • * 1997 , Paul Attanasio (scriptwriter), :
  • DONNIE (talking about a diamond): Well, you should give it to someone who don't know any better, because that's a fugazi .
    LEFTY: That's a fugazi'? How do you know it's a ' fugazi ? You haven't looked at it for two seconds.
  • * 2010 , Will Friedwald, A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers , page 306:
  • Some of Dean Martin's Italian songs are the real thing, others are fugazi . Even so, when he sings a genuine Italian song, he often Americanizes it:
  • * 2013 , :
  • MARK HANNAH: No. Number one rule of Wall Street. Nobody — I don't care if you're Warren Buffet or if you're Jimmy Buffet — nobody knows if a stock is gonna go up, down, sideways or in fucking circles, least of all stock brokers, right?
    JORDAN BELFORT: Mm-hmm.
    MARK HANNAH: It's all a fugazi' is?
    JORDAN BELFORT: Fugazi , it's a fake ...
    MARK HANNAH: Yeah, fugazi' . It's a wahzi, it's a woozy. It's ... fairy dust. It doesn't exist, it's never landed, it is no matter, it's not on the elemental chart. It's not fucking real.

    See also

    * clusterfuck * FUBAR * SNAFU

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