Usually means: Words often offensive or emphatic.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word expletives:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. expletives: Merriam-Webster
  2. expletives: Collins English Dictionary
  3. expletives: Vocabulary.com
  4. Expletives, expletives: Wordnik
  5. expletives: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. expletives: Wiktionary
  7. expletives: Dictionary.com
  8. expletives: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. expletives: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expletives: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. expletives: Encyclopedia

(Note: See expletive as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (expletive)

adjective:  Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.
adjective:  Marked by expletives (phrase-fillers).
noun:  A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.
noun:  (linguistics) A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.
noun:  (linguistics) A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning (such as fuckin in "there's no fuckin way he's gonna get away with it").
noun:  An obscene or otherwise offensive interjection (such as shit, fuck, or damn it).
▸ Also see expletive


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