up yours

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English

Etymology

Short for shove it up your ass.

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Interjection

up yours

  1. (mildly vulgar) Expression to show discontent with the other party, or to show contempt.
    You dare come here dressed so horribly? Well, up yours!
    • 2003 November 27, Benjamin Zephaniah, “Me? I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought”, in the Guardian‎:
      I thought, OBE me? Up yours, I thought.
    • 2022 July 1, Jordan Peterson, 14:10 from the start, in Twitter Ban‎, YouTube, archived from the original on 01 July 2022:
      And I'm not taking down that tweet or acknowledging that my tweet violated the Twitter rules. Up yours, woke moralists. We'll see who cancels who.
  2. (dismissive, vulgar) Go away! Go to hell!
    Up yours!—I’m not giving you any!
    You’ve done enough to ruin our outing, so up yours!

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