f-bomb

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:04 AM -0400 8/31/04, Alice Faber wrote:
>Yeah, the "magic word(s)" is what gets you tossed from a baseball
>game. "Dropping an F-bomb (or an N-bomb)" is essentially "fighting
>words". So, dropping an F-bomb can get you tossed, and dropping an
>N-bomb earns retaliation of sorts. It's definitely my impression that
>the verb of utterance here is always "drop".
>
Yup, unless an announcer decides to be creative and comes up with
"detonated an F-bomb" or the like.  I hadn't remembered N-bomb, but
that seems plausible enough.

L