give a damn

1. 1.

   show no concern or interest; always used in the negative

   “I don't give a hoot”

   “She doesn't give a damn about her job”

   Synonymscare a hanggive a hootgive a hang

Questions about give a damn

What does give a damn mean?

give a damn means "show no concern or interest; always used in the negative".

What is another word for give a damn?

Close synonyms include care a hang, give a hoot, give a hang. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is give a damn a common word?

give a damn is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.