give zero fucks

give zero fucks (third-person singular simple present gives zero fucks, present participle giving zero fucks, simple past and past participle gave zero fucks)

1. (idiomatic, vulgar) To not care; to not give a shit.
   • 2014 July 24, James Wolcott, “From Here to Jeter-nity”, in Graydon Carter, editor, Vanity Fair‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 April 2015:

     [Derek] Jeter's all-star appearance last night was treated like a simultaneous memorial for eight cancer kids, even though he still has three more months of baseball to play and people give precisely zero fucks about the all-star game.

   • 2018 January 11, Tina Nguyen, “‘Steve [Bannon] Really Hijacked [Andrew] Breitbart’: The Right-Wing Site’s Staff Confronts a Post-Bannon Landscape”, in Radhika Jones, editor, Vanity Fair‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 January 2018:

     [H]e [Steve Bannon] and Andrew Breitbart were much more similar than some are now suggesting: charismatic bomb-throwers, giving zero fucks, aggrieving liberal snowflakes with a steady diet of stories on black crime and Muslim interlopers.

   • 2020 May 15, Christopher Rosen, quoting Trevor Noah, “Trevor Noah Horrified by Reckless Wisconsin Residents Packing Bars”, in Radhika Jones, editor, Vanity Fair‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 September 2020:

     I understand people who feel like getting kids in school, getting back to work and reopening doctors’ offices is worth the risk of coronavirus. […] But if the first thing you do when you’re not locked down is pack yourself into bars where you’re spraying into each other’s faces, something tells me you give zero fucks.

   • 2022 August 26, Dan Hayes, “[Minnesota] Twins bring energy, but first-inning woes doom them to sixth consecutive loss”, in The Athletic‎^[4], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 September 2025:

     The Twins have since suffered debilitating injuries, the offense has struggled for weeks, and the team has felt enough pressure that manager Rocco Baldelli has implored them to give “zero fucks” and play loose.

   • 2023 March 7, Abigail Tracy, “Welcome to Nancy Mace’s Island, Where She Gives “Zero F-cks””, in Radhika Jones, editor, Vanity Fair‎^[5], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 March 2023:

     Nancy Mace gives “zero fucks” about what her colleagues think of her.

   • 2025 January 24, Mike Bedigan, “Key [Donald] Trump staff ‘furious’ [Elon] Musk bashed $500 billion AI deal — as president shrugs it off”, in The Independent‎^[6], London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 January 2025:

     “It’s clear he has abused the proximity to the president,” the source said. “The problem is the president doesn’t have any leverage over him and Elon gives zero fucks.”

• “zero fucks”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.