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What does expletive mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word expletive? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.
  2. Marked by expletives (phrase-fillers).
Noun
  1. A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.
  2. (linguistics) A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.
  3. (linguistics) A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning; an intensifier.
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