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burn someone's ass

burn someone's ass verb: to irritate, bother, grind one's gears.

Verb

burn someone's ass (third-person singular simple present burns someone's ass, present participle burning someone's ass, simple past and past participle burned someone's ass or burnt someone's ass)

  1. To irritate, bother, grind one's gears.
    • It really burns my ass to see the glorification in books, plays, movies, and musicals of Henry VIII of England, that loathsome monarch who discarded woman after woman because he had no use for the female offspring they produced.1976 April 17, Don Shewey, “Eros and Heroes on the Boards”, in Gay Community News, page 11

Forms of burn someone's ass

third-person singular presentburns someone's ass
present participleburning someone's ass
past participleburned someone's ass
pastburned someone's ass
past participleburnt someone's ass
pastburnt someone's ass

Questions about burn someone's ass

What does burn someone's ass mean?
Burn someone's ass means to irritate, bother, grind one's gears.
What part of speech is burn someone's ass?
Burn someone's ass is a verb.
What is the past tense of burn someone's ass?
The past tense of burn someone's ass is burned someone's ass.

Words near burn someone's ass in the dictionary

  1. burn pits
  2. burn rate
  3. burn rates
  4. burn rubber
  5. burn someone at the stake
  6. burn someone's ass
  7. burn someone's ears
  8. burn that bridge when one comes to it
  9. burn the candle at both ends
  10. burn the coal
  11. burn the coal, pay the toll

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