fart

verb

1. (informal, intransitive)To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.

   “I fart with twenty ladies by; / They call me beast; and what care I?”

2. (figuratively, informal, transitive)To emit (fumes, gases, etc.).

   “Above his head the funnel farted black soot into the sky.”

   “We’ve been stuck behind a Ford Escort farting black smoke for ten minutes.”

noun

1. (informal)An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus.

   “I think I heard a fart. Was it you, Nigella?”

   “Silent farts are often the smelliest.”

   “Metrocles somewhat indiscreetly, as he was disputing in his Schole, in presence of his auditory, let a fart, for shame whereof he afterwards kept his house and could not be drawen abroad[…].”

2. (derogatory)An irritating person; a fool.
3. (Maine)One who is inflexibly meticulous.
4. (derogatory)A trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF).

   “Reminder that FARTs don't actually believe trans women are men. They don't speak to people they think are men the way they do to trans women.”

   ““Blaming trans people for everything” is to FARTs as Three Blind Mice is to the bloody recorder.”

   “Tellingly, FARTs often end up in alliance with other far right movements with xenophobic, white supremacist, and nativist and ethno-nationalist reactionary politics.”