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bare-arse

bare-arse adjective: with the buttocks exposed, as for a spanking or a mooning.

Adjective

bare-arse (not comparable)

  1. (literally) With the buttocks exposed, as for a spanking or a mooning.
  2. (broadly) Stark naked.
    • So he's pounding them off and is away over the hill in sweet dreams, and Clarice tippy-toes into the bedroom as quiet as fog coming off a millpond, and she takes off her clothes and stands there bare-arse looking out the window in the moonlight.1969, John Gould, The Jonesport Raffle, and Numerous Other Maine Veracities, Little, Brown and Company, page 25
    • "I sleep bare-arse, Mrs. Bayram, always have, which you can come and check out any time you like."1990, Daniel Pollock, Lair of the Fox, HarperCollins, published 1990, →ISBN, page 304

Synonyms of bare-arse

Forms of bare-arse

alternative formbarearse

Origin of bare-arse

From bare + arse.

Questions about bare-arse

What does bare-arse mean?
Bare-arse means with the buttocks exposed, as for a spanking or a mooning.
What part of speech is bare-arse?
Bare-arse is an adjective.

Words near bare-arse in the dictionary

  1. bare poles
  2. bare trust
  3. bare trusts
  4. bare with
  5. Bare'e
  6. bare-arse
  7. bare-assed
  8. bare-backed
  9. bare-backedness
  10. bare-bellied
  11. bare-bellied Joe

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