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...machines, either. French and Italian cafes ditched the handmade espresso years ago for automation and don't seem to have suffered ennui because of it. You think Café Flore in Paris would lose its charm because it served automated café au lait? Je pense que no friggin' way. Sit down in Starbucks and enjoy a cup and some conversation? Sure, if you can manage to snag a seat from the WiFi squatters who have set up an office for the price of a latte. (Here's a suggestion: Set up joint outlets with Kinkos, and get these freeloaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starbucks: Wake Up, Smell the Coffee | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

...Through his night-vision goggles, Turner spots three men carrying rocket-propelled-grenade launchers racing toward the stalled convoy. Bullets are zinging in from fields. The gunners atop the humvees open up with their .50-cal. machine guns, and red tracer bullets carve across the darkness. "Call me a friggin' detective, but I'd say they knew we were coming!" yells Turner while radioing for a medevac helicopter. The five soldiers inside the flaming humvee, although burned and slashed by flying shrapnel, have survived. But the vehicle is still rolling straight toward a field of mines. The soldiers haul themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War in the Shadows | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...feminine critics - and there are a few who are cranky about the paucity of Realguys - Abyss will soon be able to answer with a male doll. A strapping Conan: the Barbarian kind of guy with a friggin' enormous personality. At least judging from the model so far: it's still in clay form, where all of the dolls begin life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Well, Hello, Dolly | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...make the Irish disappear b) better track the friggin' Muggles c) increase their communication skills d) make better use of their funny hats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz May 7, 2001 | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...mean, do you actually think questions like, 'Do you think E.O. Wilson doesn't like teaching about aging because, you know, he's not exactly a spring chicken? Do you think he feels bad?' are relevant to anything? What are you thinking? Why don't you shut you friggin' mouth and take some notes, dammit. Good night...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, | Title: Welcome to the Jungle | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

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