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bet one's arse

bet one's arse is the alternative form of bet one's ass.

Meaning of bet one's ass

Verb

bet one's ass (third-person singular simple present bets one's ass, present participle betting one's ass, simple past and past participle bet one's ass)

  1. (US, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To bet everything; to have total reliance or confidence in something.
    • You can bet your ass that favor won't be returned.2011, Ahmariah Jackson, IAtomic Seven, Supreme Understanding, Locked Up but Not Locked Down

Forms of bet one's arse

third-person singular presentbets one's arse
present participlebetting one's arse
past participlebetted one's arse
pastbetted one's arse

Questions about bet one's arse

What is bet one's arse the alternative form of?
Bet one's arse is the alternative form of bet one's ass.

Words near bet one's arse in the dictionary

  1. bet dollars to doughnuts
  2. bet exchange
  3. bet exchanges
  4. bet on
  5. bet on the jockey, not the horse
  6. bet one's arse
  7. bet one's ass
  8. bet one's boots
  9. bet one's bottom dollar
  10. bet one's life
  11. bet out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bet one's arse (page history and authors); bet one's ass (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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