ass
IPA: ˈæs
noun
- Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus, the domesticated of which are used as beasts of burden.
- (slang, mildly vulgar) A stupid person.
- (printing, slang, obsolete) A compositor.
- (vulgar, slang, countable and uncountable) The buttocks.
- (vulgar, slang, countable and uncountable) The anus.
- (vulgar, slang, objectifying, uncountable) Sex; a person to have sex with; with vulgar emphasis on their corporeality (their body) over their personhood.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Used in similes to express something bad or unpleasant.
- (vulgar, slang, metonymically, objectifying, countable) A person; the self; (reflexively) oneself or one's person, chiefly their body. By extension, one's personal safety, or figuratively one's job, prospects, etc.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of argininosuccinate synthase.
adjective
- (vulgar, slang) Of low quality; bad.
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Examples of "ass" in Sentences
- Considerable symbolism is attached to the ox and the ass.
- I got a welt on my ass the size of a Red Delicious apple.
- You think something you pulled out of your ass is a proof?
- Cramming your head up your ass is also doable, apparently.
- I have described the british meaning of ass as donkey, burro.
- I prefer the crazy, strange, zany and sometimes bad ass kind.
- What stunningly dullard ass clown designed the process for AfD
- And leave it to A-house to come up with the term ass cleavage anyway.
- I'd use the term ass-backwards, but those muscles need a little rest.
- Another story involves a man who was leading an ass laden with crockery.
- The guy who invented the escalator is probably kicking himself in the ass
- Mr. Sanchez, to be indelicate, can shove his bigoted views up his own ass.
- After showing the egg, the farmer showed the ass of the prodigious chicken.
- Sometimes a block is the kick in the ass people need to stop acting retarded.
- Hate to relate this to you fauxdrhunt, but not everything you blow out your ass is a fact.
- On the other hand, arresting someone just because they're a pain in the ass is a good way to meet 42 USC 1983 up close and personal.
- [38] The story goes that a traveller who had hired an ass, having placed himself in its shadow to escape the heat of the sun, was sued by the driver, who had pretended that he had let the ass, not but its shadow; hence the Greek proverb, _to quarrel about the shade of an ass_, i.e. about nothing at all.
- Mr. Orton says -- "The mule, the produce of the male ass and mare, is essentially a _modified ass_: the ears are those of an ass somewhat shortened; the mane is that of the ass, erect; the tail is that of an ass; the skin and color are those of an ass somewhat modified; the legs are slender and the hoofs high, narrow and contracted, like those of an ass.
- But in the first place, it is to be observed, that there seems to have been a blunder in this transaction; for according to the Hebrew idiom of the passage quoted above, the personage there spoken of, was to ride upon an ass colt; whereas, the apostles, in order to be sure of fulfilling the prophecy, represent Jesus as riding upon an ass, and the colt, too!
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