A US Southern euphemism for goddamn, used as a mild expletive to express frustration or emphasis without using profanity. Like dadgum or doggone, dadburn belongs to a family of euphemistic oath substitutes common in American regional speech, particularly in the South.
He fumbled with the dadburn lock for five minutes before realising he had the wrong key.
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(US, informal, euphemistic) goddamned.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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