Word.ws English Dictionary

get one's head out of one's ass

get one's head out of one's ass verb: to stop being oblivious to the real state of things, to reconnect with reality, to begin paying attention to everything happening around oneself, and to become more aware of one’s surroundings.

Verb

get one's head out of one's ass (third-person singular simple present gets one's head out of one's ass, present participle getting one's head out of one's ass, simple past got one's head out of one's ass, past participle got one's head out of one's ass or gotten one's head out of one's ass)

  1. (Canada, US, derogatory, slang, vulgar) To stop being oblivious to the real state of things, to reconnect with reality, to begin paying attention to everything happening around oneself, and to become more aware of one’s surroundings.

Forms of get one's head out of one's ass

third-person singular presentgets one's head out of one's ass
present participlegetting one's head out of one's ass
pastgot one's head out of one's ass
past participlegot one's head out of one's ass
past participlegotten one's head out of one's ass
alternative formget one's head out one's ass

Questions about get one's head out of one's ass

What does get one's head out of one's ass mean?
Get one's head out of one's ass means to stop being oblivious to the real state of things, to reconnect with reality, to begin paying attention to everything happening around oneself, and to become more aware of one’s surroundings.
What part of speech is get one's head out of one's ass?
Get one's head out of one's ass is a verb.
What is the past tense of get one's head out of one's ass?
The past tense of get one's head out of one's ass is got one's head out of one's ass.

Words near get one's head out of one's ass in the dictionary

  1. get one's groove on
  2. get one's hand in
  3. get one's hands dirty
  4. get one's hands on
  5. get one's head around
  6. get one's head out of one's ass
  7. get one's head out of the gutter
  8. get one's head out one's ass
  9. get one's head right
  10. get one's head straight
  11. get one's head together

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: get one's head out of 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “get one's head out of one's ass.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/get_one%27s_head_out_of_one%27s_ass. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.