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back-asswards

back-asswards is the alternative form of ass-backwards.

Meaning of ass-backwards

Adjective

ass-backwards (comparative more ass-backwards, superlative most ass-backwards)

  1. (colloquial) Oriented backwards, particularly after a mishap.
    • The car spun out of control and I ended up ass-backwards in a ditch.
  2. (colloquial, idiomatic) Hopelessly misguided; contrary to what is normal, expected, or logical; having taken the utterly wrong choice.
    • No wonder it doesn't work. The whole design is ass-backwards.

See all 4 meanings of ass-backwards

Forms of back-asswards

comparativemore back-asswards
superlativemost back-asswards

Origin of back-asswards

A self-referentially backwards form of ass-backwards.

Questions about back-asswards

What is back-asswards the alternative form of?
Back-asswards is the alternative form of ass-backwards.

Words near back-asswards in the dictionary

  1. back-announces
  2. back-announcing
  3. back-arc
  4. back-arcs
  5. back-assward
  6. back-asswards
  7. back-bench
  8. back-bencher
  9. back-benchers
  10. back-benches
  11. back-bit

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