unfuck

From un- +‎ fuck, originally US military slang. For the sense of making a mistake, see fuck up.

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unfuck (third-person singular simple present unfucks, present participle unfucking, simple past and past participle unfucked)

1. (slang, vulgar, transitive) To correct or fix (a mistake or problem).
   • 1987, Stanley Kubrick; Michael Herr; Gustav Hasford, Full Metal Jacket, spoken by Hartman (R. Lee Ermey):

     Now get up! Get on your feet! You had best unfuck yourself or I will unscrew your head and shit down your neck!

   • 2007, Anne Frasier, Garden of Darkness, Onyx, →ISBN, page 19:

     An unemployed, starving artist couldn't turn her back on that kind of money. Not to mention that this could be a chance to unfuck my life.

   • 2017 January 24, Beth Skwarecki, “Unf*ck Your Habitat Got Me to Finally Start Cleaning My House”, in Lifehacker‎:

     Before long, this habit leads to…well, to the exact situation in my kitchen that took me three 20/10s to unfuck last week.

2. (vulgar, transitive) To undo the act of copulation with (a person) or its consequences.
   • 1982, Marge Piercy, Braided Lives, →ISBN, page 269:

     "I won't do it again. I won't! You'll see. I have to prove that. I have to prove it to myself." "You can't unfuck him Donna."

   • 1996, Michael Peterson, A time of War, →ISBN, page 222:

     You can't unfuck a woman or shove the baby back in.

   • 2002, Larry Owen, The Female Lieutenant, →ISBN, page 191:

     There is just no way to go back and unfuck the maid or whatever it was that got him in trouble in the first place.

   • 2011, Kate Willoughby, Just Winging It, →ISBN, page 63:

     Recognizing the signs that she was approaching orgasm, he upped the pace […] But too late now to unfuck her.

   • 2011, Erica Orloff, chapter 6, in Freudian Slip, →ISBN:

     Kate's voice was so quiet, Julian saw Leslie lean forward to hear her. “Do you propose undoing screwing my boyfriend, Leslie? Are you going to unfuck him?”

• As modification to history is typically hypothetical, the sense concerning copulation is usually used in a negative construction.

• Appendix:Glossary of military slang