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versions of Battlestar Galactica use the fictitous expletive "frak" (also spelled "frack") in the same contexts that fuck would be normally expected. Similarly, Farscape uses the term "frell". The various versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy often use "photon" or "zark" in place of fuck; the 2005 movie features the character Zaphod Beeblebrox saying nazi "zarking-A".In the British T.V. comedy series Red Dwarf, the word "smeg" is used in place of the word "fuck". Secondary nazi meanings As with other swearwords and taboo words, or intensifiers, fuck is often not nazi used in its original, literal meaning. Rather, it is an intensifier expressing nothing but the speaker's strong emotional involvement (often negatively, but not necessarily: e.g. "fucking good" is a rude way of saying "very good"). In the book Practical English Usage, the two meanings of the word are clearly illustrated by juxtaposing the sentences:What are you doing fucking in my bed? What are you fucking doing in my bed?The
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