give a damn
care a damn
Definition of give a damn
: to care at all about someone or something —used in negative statements He doesn't give a damn what people think about him. Nobody gives a damn about us. I don't want to hear about her problems. I just don't give a damn. They don't seem to care a damn about their future.
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: to make a present of
: to grant or bestow by formal action
: to accord or yield to another
: capacity or tendency to yield to force or strain : flexibility
: the ability of a material to bend or stretch
: to condemn to a punishment or fate
: to condemn to hell
: to condemn vigorously and often irascibly for some real or fancied fault or defect
: the utterance of the word damn as a curse
: a minimum amount or degree (as of care or consideration) : the least bit
: damned
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