IGMFU
n.— «They’re card-carrying members of the “ME Society.” Everything is for Me, and Screw You. My late father, only semi-jokingly, used to refer to it as the philosophy of “IGMFU,” as in “I Got Mine, F-U.”» —“Alberto Gonzales’ Heck of a “Good” Job on the Anniversary of Katrina” by Mary Lyon California Progress Report Aug. 29, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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